Streamer Junkie

I Have a Fishing Magazine in my Toolbox by Mark Usyk

The living room floor's a battle field. Green army men and tan army men stand toe to toe, rifles trained on each other, the wounded and the dead lie everywhere....
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Oriskany Creek Logic by Mark Usyk

    I stand in a stretch of the Oriskany Creek, staring down the Weeping Willow that’s attached to the other end of my fly line, a few tugs leading to...
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Reflections of a Fly Rod by Mark Usyk

It’s only 6 and a half feet of graphite and a handful of cork. It’s such a simple thing, not a complicated device by any means. Practically a stick in...
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Just One More Cast by Mark Usyk

I’m gonna tie flies to save money. That’s one of the great lies. Once you start, if you didn’t realize it to begin with, you will soon enough. You’ll come...
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Who's the Real Sucker by Mark Usyk

I wrote this story some time ago, while I was still working on the road climbing cell towers. This was a typical day after work for me back then, avoiding...
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A Big Dam Brown by Mark Usyk

Besides the whole getting purposefully lost thing, besides the finding my inner peace thing, and besides the whole getting outdoors thing, there’s something to be said about the whole “you...
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Time, Money, and Fly Fishing by Mark Usyk

Two weeks. It’d been two weeks since I’d been fishing. Two weeks is a long time for someone that sometimes fishes every day. Painful. Agonizing. The last time I’d been...
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Thoughts on Fly Tying... I'm Getting Dizzy by Mark Usyk

I could grab a rod that’s strung up and ready to go, the water after all is within eye sight of the wall on which the rods are hung or...
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