Casting Around » trout

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #24: Catch and Keep

Anthony Naples — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:32:55 +0000

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #24: Catch and Keep

Crushed limestone gravel of The anglers’ lot. Done for the day and seventeen new fish sweep their tails behind my eyelids. A mink, an osprey, a great blue heron, maples that are beginning to think about winter. It’s catch and release here. But I’m leaving nothing behind.

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #23: Beautiful Stream, No Fish

Anthony Naples — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:30:44 +0000

Trout by Anthony Naples

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #23: Beautiful Stream, No Fish

There is no escaping the conclusion that all trout streams are liars– hustlers with flashing liquid grins whispering devious, sweet, gurgling fictions, and selling trinkets of silver, blue, and red– stolen from the fishes.

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #17: The River and the Fish

Anthony Naples — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:03:49 +0000

Into the Sunset by Anthony Naples

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #17: The River and the Fish

Today the weight that was a fish, is forgotten. Left to drift downstream around the bend at sunset. Around the bend, back to the sea, a fish who fought me on the broken mercury surface of the river, who fought [...]

Trout and Seasons of the Mountain Village

Anthony Naples — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:45:24 +0000

A while back, I stumbled upon Yoshikazu Fujioka’s website Trout and Seasons of the Mountain Village. My introduction came not through fishing but through paper models. I can’t recall where it was, but I saw a post about 3D paper trout models that you could build, I thought that it would be a fun project [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #16: Council of the Fishes

Anthony Naples — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:09:59 +0000

Fall Stream by Anthony Naples

I’m a day behind – but it is not my fault, I swear. Last night when I tried to post the daily poem, my hosting service was down. I’ll get another up today to get back on track, so all will be right with the world again.

Trout Seeds by Anthony Naples

With this poem, I’m half way through the Daily Fly Fishing Poem project! I have to think of what to do next.

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #15: Trout Like Seeds

Walking up on the stream, crunching dry grass under my feet, I’m thinking about the last time it rained. Pools full [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #14: The Drift

Anthony Naples — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:15:33 +0000

Drift by Anthony Naples

Well, here I am on day 14. I have to admit it’s getting a bit tough. But I’m determined to stick it out till the end of the month. If anybody wants to throw any themes my way for future poems feel free.

Daily Fly Fishing Poem [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #12: Elegy

Anthony Naples — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:15:15 +0000

A note of explanation: For anybody just checking in for the first time, I am in the middle of a project to write a fly fishing poem everyday, during the month of September. I just figured you might be wondering what is going on. After this little project is complete- we’ll probably return [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #6: Watching Trout in the Grass

Anthony Naples — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:11:23 +0000

Trout in the Grass by Anthony Naples

Poem #6: Watching Trout in the Grass

I don’t recall the month, though it was winter I’m sure of that. A dusting of snow on the stubbled, browning fields, but the air didn’t smell like winter yet. Maybe it was only late fall.

So, to be out fishing [...]

Daily Fly Fishing Poem #3: The Meaning of Mayflies

Anthony Naples — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:44:13 +0000

Rising Trout by Anthony Naples

Well, I started this month long, Poem-a-Day thing today (the 3rd of September, 2010). For the sake of neatness, I decided to get three poems out today, so that I was on-track. So, here is the third installment of the Daily Fly Fishing Poem. For the rest of the month [...]