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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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If Only I Had Carried a Fly Rod By Mark Usyk

Years ago a friend and my two younger brothers and I arranged to be dropped off in Tupper Lake up in the Adirondacks. Our plan was to hike 50 some...
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The Mohawk River.

It is nearly three hundred years from today. You begin to string up your fly line through your guides as you notice a tribe of Iroquois Indian Braves, paddling in...
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