From the monthly archives:

March 2010

My Outdoor Sidekick Had a Birthday

March 31, 2010 Outdoor Photo Journal

Yesterday my daughter Kaitlyn, aka Z Outdoor Sidekick, turned 15 years old…. ‘Scuse me while I choke and sputter a bit over that number. I figure I’m approaching the cut off zone. Not the one that gets me out of the legal noose of parental responsibility (18), but the one that decides whether the kid will need a [...]

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The Fly Fishing Addict ~ Am I? Are You? Is Anyone?

March 30, 2010 Fly Fishing

 ”I’m still waiting to find another human who knows what that (fly fishing addiction) really means…….” Via a comment left within my website from Bigerrfish (a recently reformed fly fishing addict) who aptly writes the fly fishing blog:  BigerrFish.  Fly Fishing Addict — Or — Fly Fishing Addiction. Does the meaning of Addict truly represent the deep and undeterred, never [...]

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Photo Journal: Via Cheap Camera and nearly Dead Battery

March 27, 2010 Outdoor Photo Journal

What does someone who lacks photography skills, carries a cheap 100 dollar point and shoot camera, typically eeks out 1 or 2 photos before her camera battery dies and doesn’t have photo editing software do with the photos she does manage to capture? Well…..start a photo journal section on her fly fishing blog of course. I see [...]

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March is for Recovering from a Winter Hangover

March 23, 2010 Outdoor Observations

I’m not sure how other people feel about this time of the year, but I’m fighting off the last lingering effects of Old Man Winter rolling me up into a nice sized cigar and smoking me for personal entertainment purposes. I’m not an indoor person and this Lady Bear doesn’t hibernate peacefully during winter. I tend to pout and pace [...]

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Can You Cast A Vote as well as you Can Cast a Fly?

March 9, 2010 Fly Fishing Causes

I believe that when a person picks up a Fly Rod and performs any sort of cast into the water they are creating a moment that goes well beyond the possibility of catching a fish. Days on the water are experiences and memories. An individual act that bears no singular definition, yet, we all feel a [...]

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The River High and The River Low

March 2, 2010 Fly Fishing

When I was out fly fishing last Sunday, one of the comments I got was a general observation, but it’s the one I’ve been thinking about as a general river theme. One man remarked after asking me how the fishing was (not good),”Well the river is pretty low right now.” Yes. And that means? I wanted to ask him, [...]

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