Cedar Lake
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau They call it a lake but it’s really just a big...
View Articleoutside belleview iowa
pitching tent along little mill on a friday evening as if it were yesterday from spring to fall brown & rainbow trout occasionally released into coldwater stream sometime after sunrise morning...
View Articledaydreaming on father’s day
the boys didn’t care to fish but the girls sure did sporting baseball caps & hooking their own wax worms license & trout stamp taped inside tackle box [probably half my age] we’d drive an hour...
View Articlelate Sunday morning
what can I take from him in his waning years that I’ve yet to discover he asked me is there anything that I have here that you want anything whatsoever of course I realized he was speaking of material...
View Articlecaught stealing (in twenty-twenty)
Take me across the water ’cause I need some place to hide — Ken Hensley we’re catching fish upstream from the lock & dam catch &...
View ArticleIf you could only see me
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival – it was a means of thought resuscitation. — Aleksandar Hemon A road less traveled a place outside of the...
View ArticleNorth of Memphis
The Energy of the pyramids beckons the next pilgrimage whether a week from tomorrow or four thousand years ago Some say the Architects were otherworldly over-achievers trading road maps for free rides...
View Articleon international waters
battling winds & tide we do not need a new enemy one leaving us w/real-time bruises flashbacks refusing to fade away we live to fish & survive not to defend saltwater territory by raising arms...
View Articlefive in the morning
our politicians have failed us that’s what’s in my head as I go jogging one early morning in a city I’ve never been [until the night before] I couldn’t sleep maybe it was the jet lag maybe it was all...
View Articledisappearing act
it’s food day so I call in sick and grab my rod & reel walk the five point five miles to the trout stream in my pockets I carry [among other things] single-serving packets of mayonnaise &...
View Articlewell below the surface
they started stocking the fishery with rainbow trout a couple of years ago in the dead of winter the surface is rock solid inviting ice skaters & parasailers and of course ice fishermen &...
View Articlewhen the levee breaks
once the snow melted the waterways swelled one tributary feeding the next from stream to creek to river to street it would be a mess how spring had sprung a major leak flowers sprouting despite nearly...
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