Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Marble, CO. That is all.

In the Canyon, about 10.5 mi. from the Canyon/Broadway intersection. Maybe two hours. Elk Hair Caddis on top with various nymphs down below....

So last year I did the South Fork of the Stanislaus from the bridge in Strawberry. This year I wanted to hit some more remote terrain and s...

Merl Jr. said that the tape to find would be Garcia/Saunders at the Great American Music Hall on a day that Crosby, Stills and Nash had pla...

Had a great Father's Day outing here. Flyshop in Silverthorne, Cutthroat Anglers , made it seem like it'd be a tough day. Probably w...

Nabokov's Lolita . Voltaire's Candide . Adam Fawer's Improbable . Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner . Stephen King's The...

Re-reading Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series, which I had read when I was 15 or so. I wanted to see if I enjoyed the philosophical ...

Read Jose Saramago's Blindness a month or so ago. It was recommended by a Barnes & Noble guy when I asked for something "dysto...

Seemingly new-to-circ OAITW show via Matt Smith and the Pacific Northwest crew running at Lossless Legs . Fun stuff. Richard Greene is there...

Gotta whole mess o' discs from this festival, which I am going through pretty methodically. Lots of neat stuff. There's a four CD ...

Got skunked on lots of big heavy wet stuff. View 200905xx-St. Vrain @ White Gate in a larger map

Was thinking I need to start leaving some notes for myself re: The Book. Example: I'd really like to track down Sara Fulcher. Anyone hel...

So I am told that I have been catching browns. They do look a lot like the guy above, most distinctively with the row of pink spots that ca...

I am considering South Boulder Creek in El Dorado Canyon State Park to be my local water for the summer. View Larger Map Been out there a h...

Colleague invites me up to his place, from which we can fish. Beautiful drive to his place, beautiful water to fish, but not as much time o...

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So, Old Colleague asks if I want to fish. Is the Pope Catholic? Ends up being 2.5 hour drive to small, blown out creek on private water (pa...

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I am going to try to post some recollections of my too-infrequent fly-fishing excursions. I am rapidly becoming obsessed with this incredib...

WTF are we doing ? H/T: LGM