I am the darkness on the edge of the firelight. I am the cold wind in the pines. I am the rain, hard on the tin roof. I am the restless ocean, sighing against your shores. I am the reason you build walls and fence yourselves in. I cannot be tamed. I am never lost. [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Earning the Name (or: How I Roll)
January 2, 2009 (with any luck) Well, I’m out day before yesterday at —— and find a school of like 3, 4 dozen bones pushed into maybe a foot of water. Ok, take your time here; fish aren’t going anywhere — just wade slow and quiet. A few minutes later I’m standing within casting range [...]
Loose, man, loose.
December 30, 2008 (probably) Still dark, had a late night so a little cranky. Drive North to find today’s client waiting in the dark. Ready. Good sign. SS flat, tailing singles. First cast at first fish and BANG, fish on. “Easy, now. Let ‘im go.” SNAP! “Wa’ ‘appin?” “I let him go.” (With mounting trepidation) check drag [...]
Ri-dic-u-lous Bonefishing
Big Bonefish with Big Charlie from Davin Ebanks on Vimeo. We recently made a (much too short) pilgramage to Andros, Bahamas to fish big bones with Big Charlie Neymour. Blowin’ like 25-30 (knots) the whole time but Charlie just said, “Bad weather: big fish.” “Kaaay…” we answered. Nothin’ for it but to grab Pancho (the [...]
Day Off: Christmas ’08
December 22, 2008 (The Warm Up) Awake later than expected and groggily dig through my old fly-boxes from last holidays. Luckily there are several usable flies still clinging to the ragged walls of Styrofoam and I decide to hell with tying freshies, I’m going fishing. I grab leader, boots, new 5pc-8wt, reel, glasses, keys, and [...]
“Welcome to…
the desert of the real.” Those words ring in my mind (after a recent viewing of the legendary film) as my plane touched down at (an undisclosed location) in the midwest. Smokestacks bristled below and the air, once we exit to the jetway, smells like someone has been cooking old socks. Ah, back to the [...]
