I went out with some friends fishing yesterday, taking along TRC and DC for the ride. It was a different type of fishing than I’d done before. More like hunting, really. We were out on a lake in a canoe, and we were hunting bass. You look down into the water, searching for spots where […]
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A friend took TRC and me out trawling yesterday evening. (You know, for some reason, I’d always thought it was spelled “trolling.” Go figure.) For those of you who don’t know, this is a kind of fishing where you toodle around in a boat with your line trailing behind you, with bait that spins in the
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You ever wish life had a rewind button? At least one of those “back 30 seconds” buttons. That happened to me on Saturday. New Years Eve. I was out ice fishing. In the rain. It was my second time ice fishing over Christmas break. The weather was supposed to be drizzly at first, then clear
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I went out fishing Friday night, and it doesn’t get much better than that. The weather was perfection. Not hot. A little breezy. Sure, it poured in a torrent for about 20 minutes, but we went to shore and stayed in the car during that, and when we went back out, the fish were going
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TRC and I went out last night with a friend to go smelting. I know most of you read that sentence and assumed we started heating up ore in the hopes of extracting metals, and you’re wondering what in the world I was thinking, getting my son close to so much hot molten metal. Well,
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