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July 2011
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our storm
Iv’e been in two storms on the Connecticut river. The first was when i was about 13. My friend Paul Partyka and i were given permission by his dad to take the johnboat to fish the south hadley cove. We fished for a while and were successful. Like Tom Sawyer and Huck we loved the river. We didnt like so much the long plastic horn that Pauls dad would use to call us back to the camp. We didnt hear...
Jul 27th
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THE SECRET SPOT
The secret spot      If you’ve been fishing long enough and have even a partial adventurous spirit then you have stumbled upon a new place to fish. Its not just finding that new location, the timing seems to  play  a bigger key. Its as if on that one given day at  the exact minute you have slipped through a secret rift in the atmosphere to find a place and time that no one has ever been. Your...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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our chesapeake bay retrievers(part of the story)
   ……………. Ive never been a member of the pack before, but this is a dog that relates that way. They aren’t like pit bulls but they also aren’t like golden retrievers. The best I can say is they are independently loyal.  You  need to earn their respect  in a battle of wills, but once you do its worth it. I don’t know how Beth and Mark do it but they do it well. It is...
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t-storm
  stay tuned    My dad used to tell me I didn’t have the sense to come out of the rain. It was true. I  just couldn’t  see the point of it. There was a whole world of wonder out there and I wasn’t about to miss it. Why did I venture out in the elements ? One word ,fishing. Some of the best fishing is in the rain, or snow. Is it the low pressure area, is it that its harder for the fish to...
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RAISE THE BAR
RAISE THE BAR.     Every dad wants his kids to do better than he did, to be a better person and, to find those things that he or she loves and excels at and to do those things to the best of their ability. Some success cant be measured, some can. Some can be a metaphor. pole vaulting is a great metaphor.  I still remember my first day vaulting 34 years ago. The coach had said you needed to be a...
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