Monthly Archives: May 2010

Catch Magazine

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What a Catch

The best visual representation of why I love fly fishing is found in the digital pages of Catch Magazine. Not only is the photography absolutely stunning, but the content is kept short and interesting. In most magazines the articles are accompanied by the photography, but in Catch the photos standout, while the text is there to compliment the visual dynamic. The editors of Catch clearly understand that a great photo is really worth more than 1,000 words, and they deliver a bi-monthly photo annual that doesn’t disappoint. Click here to subscribe.

A good quote…

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Little River Trail - Towards Elkmont, TN

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” - G.K. Chesterton

I love this quote. It’s almost as if G.K. Chesterton has been along the many trips where I’ve introduced newbies to the great outdoors. Along the way, I’ve noticed that the things in nature that annoy most people are the things that I love most about it. In a culture that demands instant-gratification, it’s nice to have something that still relies on your effort, patience, hard work, intelligence, good old-fashioned grit & character to bring out excellence. It never fails that creation wins them over eventually, but the streams and rivers, mountains & trails, fish & foul don’t make it easy. They make it good, and life was meant to be good, not easy.

• No cell phone coverage – Decompression in God’s great outdoors (away from electronic devices) is rivaled by none.

• The fish aren’t biting (aka. the fault of the angler, not the fish) – Fly fishing sounds like a great thing & most people like the idea of fishing, but it’s a different thing when you realize there is a huge amount of patience & learning involved.

• This trail is so long, when will it ever end?!! I’m so tired, my feet hurt… – A truth we can all commiserate with, but the best tasting beer (or coke) is the one that you’ve looked forward to, while trudging & sweating those few last miles of trail.

There are so many examples that this list could go on for days, but instead of rambling along any further, my take on the quote from Chesterton could best be explained by a few verses from the book of Romans.

“1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. 6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5 – NIV

Back from my blog sabbatical…

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It’s been several months since my last entry & a lot has happened to keep me from it. January brought the death of my Grandfather-in-Law, which was a shock to everyone and the loss of a great man. In early February my dog died, so that’s life kicking me while I was down, all in the midst of having a personal crisis as to my future career status, whether it be freelance or a corporate job… (yet to be determined)

I say all this knowing that it probably interests very few people. Not that I have any blog followers, but it’s nice way for me to chronicle my progress (or sometimes “lack-there-of”) and hopefully I’ll continue to morph this website into a resource for outdoorsmen or even wanna-be-outdoorsman, like myself.