An Unwritten Story

  • LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    May 12, 2018 at 6:23 am #1774232

    An Unwritten Story

    I have heard it hundreds of times in my life. That question that so many ask and expect a simple response. There is no answer for the non-believers. I have tried to explain it so many times and the answer never quite satisfies the inquisitive.

    I guess you just need to have grown up on the streams of southwestern Wisconsin to understand. You need to have lost numerous giant trout to understand. You need to have landed many giant trout to understand.

    It is not just one thing. It is a combination of nature, anticipation, adrenalin, and curiosity. Some parts of it resemble a chess match. The reading of the water and trying to guess where that next giant might be hiding..

    The seasons change and the puzzle differs due to the water temperatures and where he might be laying. There are the trees and bushes to hinder your casting. If it was easy you would not be so infatuated with it.

    The puzzle changes daily with the wind, rain and many other factors. The blind potential of what lies beneath in every cast is your lure to these beautiful places. Those beautiful places that take your breath away are the reason.

    If you haven’t figured out the question by now the explanation will not sink in. The question is: “Why do you trout fish?” Then there is typically the follow up question of: “What is so special about it?”

    When I am on stream I am constantly looking upstream and evaluating the next 10-20 yards of stream. There are special days when you round a bend and the music starts to play in your head and you become giddy like that 10 year old version of you did in the long ago past. You are that 10 year old again

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    Tom Sawvell
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    Posts: 9559
    May 12, 2018 at 7:26 am #1774243

    Great little piece there Len. Love the camera work too.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    May 12, 2018 at 5:58 pm #1774320

    I was talking with a fella at St Johns Hospital this last week Len.
    He’s a lurker by the name of Brian and he mentioned your posts by your name.

    Keep on keeping on!

    toast <-German Beer.

    robby
    Quad Cities
    Posts: 2827
    May 12, 2018 at 10:39 pm #1774374

    Len, where can I read more of your works and view more of your photos? I’ve become a fan.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    May 13, 2018 at 6:44 am #1774390

    I didn’t mention, it was in the ’80’s. Went to see the in-laws in Appleton WS. I had my eye on the Wolf River a couple hours to the North.

    The favorite wife and I had a little disagreement on when I could go fish that river. She couldn’t understand why I needed to go the next day and not wait a day or two.

    I’ve tried to explain it to her then and many times since…

    Without much effort I can put myself in my waders and feel the cool current flow around me. Spotting that large snapping turtle sunning himself on a rock before getting spooked. Wondering how big of trout is hiding on the back side of that boulder.

    All of that leads up to the tug on the rod when the nymph reaches the end of it’s drift and a nice size rainbow cartwheels across the river just to come unhooked as fast as it hooked up.

    She sees that 10 year old when I try to explain, but she won’t ever understand.

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