Streamer Junkie

To Be a Fishing Guide By Mark Usyk

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately. Fishing stories mainly. I’ve been doing quite a bit of writing too. Again, fishing stories. And I’ve been tying a few flies....
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Hot Cone Olive Muddler Minnow:

This fly was a fly I first tied over a pot of coffee on a terribly wet day at the fly shop. I knew that hot orange worked, and I knew that olive was also a very effective color. I walked around the shop, grabbed some olive deer hair, olive marabou and tied some up.
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Fishing on the Road By Mark Usyk

For three days we had given it our best shot. Driving from the job site in Big Flats NY to our hotel in Elmira, I had located what was supposed...
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Summer Day Dreaming At 3am By Mark Usyk

2:30 A.M. The alarm rouses me from a dead sleep. I quietly move through the house, trying not to wake up my wife and boys. The clank of a coffee...
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Fly Fishing Therapy Part 4 (The End) By Mark Usyk

The third day found Mike and I up on the tower in the bright sun under beautiful blue Adirondack skies, wearing rain jackets, wishing we had ski jackets and face...
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Fly Fishing Therapy Part 3 By Mark Usyk

The next morning as we unloaded the John Deer ATV from a trailer at the base of Lyon Mountain Mike and I talked about the great section of river we’d...
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Fly Fishing Therapy Part 2 By Mark Usyk

There is nothing quite like the line pulling tight and the jerk of the rod tip on your very first cast. I immediately laugh out loud. I’ve forgotten the day...
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Fly Fishing Therapy-Part 1 By Mark Usyk

I’m at about the 200’ mark on a communications tower atop Lyon Mt in the northern Adirondacks. The day started out easy enough, exploring a small mountain stream while waiting...
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