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Category Archives: Wind Knots and Backlashes

Grab Your Hat

Tomorrow, at breakfast, reach over and turn off your iPad or close your laptop. Grab the remote; turn off the TV. Forget breaking news

Posted byMarshallOctober 8, 2024March 29, 2025Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Brown Trout, fishing, Fly fishing, Fly fishing; Trout; Guides, Rocky Mountain National Park, Trout, trout-fishing2 Comments on Grab Your Hat

Wanted: Sturdy Guide for Old Fly Fisherman

I balanced on the edge of a stream bank … At one time I would have made it down in two bounds.

Posted byMarshallApril 15, 2024March 28, 2025Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Fly fishing; Trout; Guides, North Carolina4 Comments on Wanted: Sturdy Guide for Old Fly Fisherman

In the Company of Guys

My dinner discussion group consists of grizzled veterans mostly retired from the cut and thrust of life. The discussion saunters aimlessly. Plans for a new knee elide into local politics.

Posted byMarshallFebruary 1, 2024February 14, 2025Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Everglades National Park1 Comment on In the Company of Guys

Come Back, Huck Finn

When I was fourteen, boys were abundant on street corners and empty lots. They were shooed out the back door on a summer’s morning and not expected back until supper time.

Posted byMarshallMarch 12, 2023January 3, 2025Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Everglades National Park, Huck FinnLeave a comment on Come Back, Huck Finn

It’s Not About the Fish

The 7-Eleven door burst open, bell jangling. A scrawny, one-legged, shirtless, bearded man in tattered pants clumped through on his one leg and a crutch. Eyes bulging, he shouted and waved his free arm.

Posted byMarshallJune 1, 2022December 26, 2024Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Big Piney River, Huckleberry Finn, Jesse James, Ozark Highlands, Ozark Mountains, SalamanderLeave a comment on It’s Not About the Fish

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