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Category Archives: Wind Knots and Backlashes

A Guitar and a Fly rod

It had taken me two months to subdue sixteen bars of “Casey Jones” by Mississippi John Hurt.

Posted byMarshallAugust 29, 2020December 21, 2024Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Accordion, Bonefish, Guitar, Taylor guitarLeave a comment on A Guitar and a Fly rod

Shore Lunch

In a galaxy far away, when I was in my 40s, I would fish with my son, my brother, and friends on the Big Piney River in east central Missouri.

Posted byMarshallMay 19, 2020May 14, 2024Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:smallmouth bass1 Comment on Shore Lunch

Learning at the Feet of the Sensei

Steve, the goateed one from Ohio, and I, the Old Road Peddler, waited on the Maximo Park boat ramp. We were tight, nervous

Posted byMarshallMarch 15, 2020December 20, 2024Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesLeave a comment on Learning at the Feet of the Sensei

Fathers and Sons

My father was the personification of Lt. Col Bull Meecham, crack jet pilot and man’s man, in Pat Conroy’s “The Great Santini.”

Posted byMarshallDecember 22, 2019December 19, 2024Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Fly fishing, Redfish, St. Simons Island, The Great Santini2 Comments on Fathers and Sons

The Trout Whisperer

Cashiers, North Carolina is where Floridians go in summer to escape from it all, then find themselves competing for a spaghetti squash at the Farmer’s Market on US 64 with a next-door neighbor from St. Petersburg. 

Posted byMarshallOctober 12, 2019December 19, 2024Posted inWind Knots and BacklashesTags:Brookings Anglers, Davidson River, Fly fishing, Trout2 Comments on The Trout Whisperer

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