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We begin Season 17 with a conversation about fishing the 17 year periodical cicada this past summer. We talk about big flies, big water and big trout.
For so many of us, it was the rarity of the event — there’s no other chance for this kind of fishing, right here, in our home waters, for another seventeen years. That’s a big marker in time. Because when you look back that far, it seems like a whole different life. In truth, it’s was a whole different world all those years ago, without high speed internet on everybody’s phones.
Think about that. That’s how much changes in seventeen years. So you start to wonder what things will look like in 2042. Who will I be in seventeen years? And you kind of realize that you cannot repeat it again. It won’t be the same. Things will be different.
I think most of us see fishing as this thing we do — the trout are always there, the hatches come and go, and we’ll fish the Henrickson’s next year too. We’ll probably be out next weekend to catch a few more trout on streamers, and we’ll start below that big boulder on the outside bend. And for most of us, maybe each fishing trip doesn’t seem all that special.
For me, this seventeen year cicada has shown me how rare every moment is. How many more times will I fish with my Dad in the braids? Who knows. Will my sons and I ever get into trout like we did last spring, where we’re all together, and the fishing is fast and fun? Not with the boys at that age. That’s a certainty. So as life passes and a trout stream seems to stay mostly the same, we change, our place in life changes, and our friends and family move on too.
Strange how an ugly two-inch bug can spark so much reflection and really, so much appreciation for . . . life. This day, yesterday and tomorrow.
My friends, Dr. Trevor Smith, Austin Dando, Josh Darling and Bill Dell join me for a great conversation.
Resources
READ: Troutbitten | Shirt Pocket Fishing
VIDEO: Troutbitten | Fish and Film – Post Cicada Blues
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Domenick Swentosky
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Welcome back gentlemen. In 17 years I’ll be 90, and plan to be still on the water. (God willing.) Thinking robotics and exoskeletons (?) by then will help. LOL…) Thank you for your continued warmth, friendship and dedication to sharing your collective knowledge of this noble sport, love of the purity of nature, and perhaps a blessed vocation with the rest of us. I enjoy the brotherhood!
Thanks, Rich!