Category Archives: Fishing Stories
Sunday Classic / Snow Day
Ice in my beard, fingers burning, I haven't felt my feet for hours. I know from experience that it will be sometime around midnight, standing in my shower with the hot water running out, before I feel them again. My fingers are killing me, so I tuck my...
Sunday Classic / My Grandfather’s Clinch Knot
Do you think about tying your shoes, brushing your teeth, putting on your shirt? I’ll bet I’ve tied the Improved Clinch Knot more times than I’ve done any of those things. But I like to think that I pay more attention to my fishing knots...
Adventures on Playground Earth
Kent and I are back from our BF Goodrich, Playground Earth / Owyhee River adventure. After spending the weekend in a coma, more or less, I'm rubbing the sleep from my eyes and trying to make sense of the surreal events of the last two...
Sunday Classic / High Point
Tim looks like he has swallowed his tongue. He's pale, eyes dilated, the corners of his mouth twitching. He's soaked in sea water, eyes burning and red. His fingers digging into his seat bottom, he squints and stiffens like a corpse preparing for the next...
Saturday Shoutout / The Very Cruelest Thing X 2
THIS WEEK, AN AMAZING STORY AND THE EVEN MORE AMAZING STORY BEHIND THE STORY. An artful imagining of sweet revenge and the horrifying story that led to its creation, set against the backdrop of a rising Alaska river. Life or death, which is the very cruelest...