Streamer Junkie

Nothing Lasts Forever by Mark Usyk

I’m not exactly positive why I’m out here. I mean, I know why I loaded the canoe on the Jeep in the wind and pitch dark last night, and I...
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Fish Stories by Mark Usyk

I talk to my dog. A lot of people talk to their dogs so don’t start looking at me like an idiot if you’re not a dog person. My dog,...
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Last Ramblings of a Trout Season by Mark Usyk

   I figured it might be a now or never type situation when I told JP we should make a run up north to fish the stream we did our...
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Fly Rods Are Not Found in the Lawn Care Dept-Take 2 by Mark Usyk

It’s that time of year. The time of year that you count down every last day until trout season ends and you either hit the couple year round catch and...
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Writers Block by Mark Usyk

Writers block. Yep. I’m in the middle of a good, which is actually a bad, spell of writers block. I want nothing more than to start typing and have some...
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Lessons in Fishing by Mark Usyk

I could see the pain on his face as we walked to the Jeep. Not physical pain, but mental anguish. “But Dad, I’m in a slump! I haven’t gotten a...
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Private Brook Trout Waters by Mark Usyk

Here we were, me and JP, on a privately owned lake on fifty-thousand acres of privately owned land in the Adirondacks, gliding away from a submerged dock after John gave...
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Who Doesn't Love Salmon Season? by Mark Usyk

Here it comes…Salmon season. And here come the standard questions, the ones I get hit with just about every day now by both fishermen and non-fishermen alike. I see them...
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