Troutrageous! Fly Fishing & Other Nonsense
A fly fishing and tenkara themed blog about trout, pop-culture, and my daughter Lilly. Philadelphia born and raised, living in Northeast Florida.
This post has nothing to do with fishing. But, when you encounter something remarkable, something that fills a void in your life that you didn't know was missing since the late 1980s... well, you feel compelled to write about it. My wife & I found ourselves in western North Carolina this Labor Day weekend. One … Continue reading Pizza Nostalgia
Days in February? US Summer Olympic medals? Bottles of beer on the wall? Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports Nah, I noticed I've written 28 blog posts over the last two months. (14 in June & 14 in July.) While most don't celebrate acts of futility, I thought it was notable "accomplishment", as Troutrageous! only had … Continue reading 28
Typically, when I fish the neighborhood ponds by my house, I go to a specific pond first. It's no secret, and in a well foot-trafficked area. It sits just beyond the chain link fence of a youth baseball diamond and within spitting distance of a jungle gym, not that you'd actually find yourself spitting at … Continue reading Turtle Gauntlet
F*ck, it's hot right now... It seems like a daily occurrence that I wake up to an excessive heat warning alert on my phone. While my memory isn't what it should be, (likely due to the side effects of concussive heat stroke), it feels like we've been in this loop since at least late May … Continue reading Prohibitive Heat
A while back I asked for some recommendations of fishing-themed books to read on my Kindle. The book I'm currently in the middle of, "An Entirely Synthetic Fish" by Anders Halverson, was released in 2010, so it's not necessarily hot off the presses. But it is pretty fascinating. Fortunately, this book has nothing to do … Continue reading An Entirely Synthetic Fish