Hoping that you've all enjoyed (or maybe you're still enjoying) a great season. Find a comfy spot, turn on your ipod or computer, and check out the latest episodes. Joe and I have shared our thoughts on adjusting your calendar to match the different fishing seasons-a great concept, especially if life is stressing you out. Our fall catch is smoked, the leaves are starting to fall, the music just keeps getting better. Life is good!
Upcoming episodes will include a special gear show, our 2nd annual road trip music special, and a special anniversary episode that will feature some special guests.
Tune in, drop us a line and let us know what's inspiring you.
Yours,
Chris
1 comment:
I like the troutconomy notion. Was just reading about the Indian village of Paquawawong, which is now New Post, Wi. The Ojibwe there lived on Maple syrup, fish, game, berries, and wild rice. It was apparently a phenomenally productive food-gathering area utilized by the Ojibwe and Sioux at varying times of the year.
That area has long been flooded under the Chippewa Flowage. The later "resort photos" of obscenely huge catches of fish reminded me, oddly enough, of petroleum. I look at those fish pictures and think, why didn't they leave some big fish for me? Over-fishing and NSP water drawdowns made sure I never had the opportunity for fishing like that when I was a kid up north!
Similarly, someday will kids look at us and say, a little bitterly, Where's my petroleum? How come those people long ago in 2008 thought they had the right to take it all and not leave some for me? Drill, baby, drill, because when you are grown up, little bairn, there ain't gonna be none of it left. Oof. Politics.
Anyway, when I'm oot and aboot, I often wonder about the Native Americans that used to use the Rush, Eau Galle, and Kinni for fishing and berry-picking grounds in those long ago days. So what can we do now, to make sure this place will always be a productive fishery, and that kids a hundred years from now will be able to fish here, and have all the other resources they will surely need.
In wildlife news, I killed a huge old mink in my chicken coop this summer, using a shovel. I have since had that old shovel bronzed, so great is my love for it. The mink had not been living on trout but had been killing off lots of my hens. His fur was coarse and bristly, hence my belief that he was old. We see big mink along the banks now and then, and one time I'm pretty sure we might have seen a fisher. But I have never seen an otter in Pierce County, except at Eau Galle Reservoir, where I have seen them as they typically do, "gamboling." Anyone else seen otters while fishing?
I don't know what to do about my calendar. It's full. I need some downtime to go otter-viewing.
Went fishing on Long Lake, caught my first walleye, a smallmouth, and a black crappie, with varying amounts of begrudging cooperation from my husband and kid. Lots of fall leaves, loons, and then yesterday saw a flock of 9 swans over Eau Galle. Surely there is plenty to tide us over till Trout Camp '09.
I like the version of Marley. Heard some of the new Taj Mahal cd on NPR, but not yours. I think there are some episodes that I could go back and hear that have those tracks, now that I can hear on the computer again.
Maybe next summer I will catch a big fish I could conceivably call Trout Mahal - and if I do I'll let him go!
Take it easy on those beavers!
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