30 August 2009
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Published on August 30th, 2009 @ 06:51:44 am, using 189 words, 92 views
I got a little time earlier in the August to not fish. It was a nice break to remind the family what Dad looks like other than a boat pulling out of the driveway.
My kids love being on the river. They like to swim, catch “sea creatures” under the rocks - those would be nymphs, and reel in fish I hook up for them. It really is a great way for a family to spend a day.
But the summer of 2009 is fading in to the cool fall air. I saw just a the first paint brushed yellow tips in the cottonwoods on Friday. She is coming and I will soon be in knee deep snow in the high country chasing elk with friends sharing the stories of the 2009 fishing season.
You blink in March and then its October again.
You blink and your little Daughter is going to all day school for the first time.
I don’t feel older..
We always sprint to the end through the last massive push of guide volume, so the the blog posts will be short and scattered - like my hair.
07 August 2009
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Published on August 7th, 2009 @ 01:06:02 pm, using 236 words, 93 views
We have finally made the swap out of the summer game. I know its still August and that may be full summer everywhere else, but it feels like fall.
We all have some event that tells us the the summer is over. For most of my life it was the beginning of two-a-day football practices. The shorts and tank top workouts swapped for pads and the daily whack-em drills. Easy thing to know where your fall is headed in that game.
The helmet has been off me for the last 10 years and the guiding game has been my day to day life. Ball carries have been replaced by brown trout. In the whole scheme of things a fair trade.
But the fall signal is different in the trout game.
My Logbook says Aug. 3rd. That’s generally the day I feel the sun drops off my shoulder. I noticed it last week - I thought a glossy hopper chop line had a cloudy lay to it. Odd, as I checked the sun it wasn’t obscured by any clouds. More gray light kicking around and longer shadows now. The straight down beating of the Mid-summer sun is over. The lurker trout will start showing up more each day. They have a little vampire streak in them that shies from the high sun.
Its just the beginning but is there a better trophy run than this one into Thanksgiving?
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