well ya knows
same ole same ole
soltice came another summer of pagan mountain hippies stuffs in the books
took sums vets fishins again
27 degrees that morn
got out on the sup fore the winds came up and vets showed up
lakes turned over and fall foliage has begun taken colors
my dude was cool staff seargent grunt with a tour of iraq and ganistan
put a good bakers dozen in the nets and shared stories and life experiences
god had fun and did sums swimmins
got loose while i was trying to get the boat on the trailer in the wind
a nice lady brought him back and told me i need to work on training as he was humping noel the seeing eye service god
yes mam his nuts are scheduled for removal and some works are perpetually in progress
tha't be both of us
cept the denutting part
removed and applied roofins products for nuffs ducketts needed to put fluids of combustible engines in the tank and gets the green things on again
old man bailed cause of wind forecasts and the bullshit his divorce from his 3rd wifes is consuming his time
my used to fish with real worms bro loaded up the cougar den and brought snowbird snowboard kid hes been fishin with
good young 20 sumthin kid with a newly developed fly flingin addiction
kind of look back ad see a bit of my younger self in him
well cept the euro nymphins and flat brims part
i went the still water belly boat full sink tug is the drugs route and didnt even learn river skills for a couple years
i shouda taken a picture of his, well damn if that didnt take a 1/2 hour to tie up,had multiple colors, dangling tippet participles, hanging chads,a brace o beadheads and possible a squrirmy wormy
and yup bout every piece of ever presence moss found em all
and welcome to big western river fishin outta a drifty
id go big dry/ long tungston dropper or inline nymph rig and grab a big ole pink ping pong thingomabobber my old man eyes can see
or watch me toss big junk from the drivers seat while youre in the penalty box again untanglin way more stuffs than id ever try to toss with a 4 weight
yeah its nice to feel the fight and a 10"ers can sure mend and lay em down sweet
did i mention winds were forecasted at 28mph today?
that flat brim on tight?
need a cap keeper?
catchin was tough low water moss and turnover and kokes must still be upstream, a few heads up and bugs early and late
did gets a nice one to eat the big junk and stay on
fishes with worms bro stuck a nice one jumped him and left em with a piercing and the kids nymph rig scored a couple dinks
and he manged some dusk dry success from shore at camp
while we managed to catch a fireside buzz
i told the kid lookin back best peices of advice i could give someone with the huge addiction
faster ya gets over the needs to gets em more youre gonna enjoy the lifelong addiction journey in the long run
and if ya wanna learn to throw line with the whippy stick do it on grass
well future pots works too
learn to enjoy
the early morning tunes cranked safty baked shuttle runs
the capitalist modern trappings of items the grind of gainfull employment bringith
shit enjoy the morning of missing brain cells, synapses not firing on all cylinders, tailing loops, cracked old line that needs to be replaced tanglin in clusterfuck of futility
new lines that need to be broken in doing the same
the lost opportunities
the ones yet to come
the blessings
the asswhoopins
the not even being able to stop at camp and don your cubbies embrace the suck shirt
cause ya managed to lost it and a simms clamshell bag full of good shit one your 1st trip of the season with jose hagen lando louie and the lass
that while only a few months ago seems like years
embrace new friends
try and learn a little sumthins from everyone youre blessed to share the doing of the things with
embrace the haul ,the load, the send jerry
the wind
the times there may be peeps homesteading where youd like to be
to the times youre solo and gots it all to yourself cept a watchful baldy
the cool shit you see that others hand created
old man manged 77 years of livin tuesday
thats like 27,775 days give or takes some leaps years
speakin of leap years my hops harvest fuckin crushed it this year
managed enough grapes to do a vino carboy
headed out to altamont to spend his bday out at south slope of the unintas ranch chasing
never seen the water this low there been a hell of a long hot dry summer
it'd been better if hed averaged 3 or 4 an hour and id gotton 4 or 5 all day
but i was havin a hard time not gettin em
spent most of the day on his favorite lake pullin streamers and we'd switch rods from the type 4 and intermediate full sink
and id row with the rod tween my legs and bam
fish on
id get em slow strippin on the wind drift
cast and git em while its dead sinkin
fast strip bam
nother fiesty bow
he was gettin eats but not a lot of solid hookups
and id get hit on safety break no strip set hooked up phat
i finally got him to get out of the boat
and he scored a couple in one of the smaller lakes
got a couple tiggers to eat but blew the big slos mos dry eat i wanted
jumped back in the boat and ended with a nice colorful fall brownie
i sure hope im still able to spend a good 10 hours flinging flies with a whippy stick at that age
and always good to spend quality time in a family matters
coulda done without the white knuckle all of Septembers rain falling in inches an hour 30 mph on 80 comin down from parleys summit high
suck factor
and hope theres still another visit or 2 to home waters fore old man winter and the season of snow bummery arrives
fuck it all seems to go by fast these days
its there
might as well enjoy it
