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Streamer Junkie
August 20, 2017
From the Portage Bar by Mark Usyk
I’ve been sitting on the portage bar, drifting along and making casts to the fishiest looking spots and coming up empty. Last year this stretch was full of smallmouths. They raced to the streamers at the ends of my casts like dogs all trying to beat each other to the table scraps tossed to the floor. I’m not saying there aren’t any smallmouths in it this year, I’m just having a hard time finding them. Every now and then I find myself making one too many casts when I should instead be dropping the fly rod and grabbing the paddle to correct the canoe. More times than I care to I find myself drifting completely sideways and then eventually backwards, or into the banks and trees overhanging them. I somehow never tangle the rod tip or leader in them, but there are a couple close calls that end with me thrusting my hands out blindly into bushy leaves and branches the way a person gropes around in the dark, trying to find something substantial enough to push back out against.
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