Cabin Fever

This time last year, I remember, I was already into plenty of fishing.  We'd had a warm spell in southwestern PA, and snow wouldn't be seen lying on the ground in any serious quantity until spring, summer, and fall had run their course.  In a particularly sharp memory, I recall a day where I'd landed bass and bluegill, lots of them, fishing a drowned elk hair caddis and wearing just a t-shirt and jeans.  Granted, that was unseasonably warm weather for a Pennsylvania February, but the feet of snow we've seen this month just make me remember it that much more. I took some time out earlier this week, bound and determined to do some fishing somewhere...anywhere. I drove to 6-8 of my normal fishing areas, and while the water is clear of ice, fast, and just a touch...

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The First Steps

Hello, and welcome to my new blog. In the coming days, I'll be bringing in a template, and adding my first few entries, but in the mean time, I'll let you know what it is that this blog will deal with. In short, it's a blog of my life...but taking that a step further, it means that we'll be concentrating on my most engaging pastime: fly fishing and fly tying. I'll specifically be focusing on the tying end of things, but the main thrust of many of my entries will be concerning fish, flies, and all that goes into attaching the former to the latter.Mixed in with that, there will be samplings of photos I take, posts about my dog, the great coffee I had that afternoon, my exploration of the Buddhist philosophy, the latest webcomic that has attracted my attention, or my take on some sort of current...

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