The Courageous Art of Exposing Yourself to Potential Pain August 29, 2024 Ed Beck Asking men to be more vulnerable is all the rage now-a-days. It seems like this is the main dialogue coming out of many talking heads about men. Some say it is to battle the scourge of toxic masculinity, while others say […]
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Choose Your Friends Like You Choose Your Flies August 15, 2024 Reid Auger How many times have you sat on the side of the river staring aimlessly into your fly box, contemplating what to tie on next? Unfortunately, after 30 plus years of fishing…too many to count. Similarly, how many times have you needed someone
The Intention of Noticing August 8, 2024 Reid Auger I remember when I first started fly fishing: I would show up to the water, look through my fly boxes (yes…plural), and stumble through all of the choices for what to tie on. I’d inevitably make a random decision, tie it up, and hope for the
The Man Who Only Fished and Never Catched August 1, 2024 Ed Beck Another day skunked on the water. Not the smelly animal kind of skunking. That would at least be a great story to tell when you got home. No, this skunking is the embarrassing kind. No fish caught all day. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Limitations Guide Growth July 25, 2024 Reid Auger Last year was a good one for fishing. It brought more opportunities for trips for some reason, perhaps commitment. Whatever it was, one trip in particular provided me an epiphany. It was a three day camping trip in late August with my much younger fishing buddy, Ed.
Perpetual State of Wonder July 18, 2024 Ed Beck It has been beaten out of me. And I assume it has been beaten out of you too. That childhood sense of wonder. Recognizing this fact in my own life, I decided to go to the source of wonder: the wide-eyed toddler. Over the past year,
You Don’t Always Need the Comfortable Cast July 11, 2024 Reid Auger You can see it…that perfect spot on the river you know is holding a fish. There’s a seem coming off the big boulder, leaving some slack water just behind and to the left of it. It’s deep. Your years of fishing experience have
The Funny Guy April 15, 2024 Reid Auger The memories of family time together while growing up come with great fondness. I don’t have a huge extended family. In fact I always joke that in comparison to my mid-western wife’s family, you could count the members of my entire family on two hands. Not quite,
Casting Questions, Catching Stories April 8, 2024 Ed Beck Our favorite sport of fishing is a bit weird in the sense that it is usually an individual sport, that many never do alone. It is a sport that often includes a “fishing buddy” with the unwritten code of “be quiet, or you will spook the
The Learning Pit March 18, 2024 Reid Auger If it were easy, frustration wouldn’t exist. Without frustration, how would we ever learn anything? In Education, where I have spent the last 25 years teaching middle and high schoolers, there is this thing called “The Learning Pit.” In a classroom full of young learners, good teachers
This reading list includes the most influential and transformative books we’ve ever read, plus the recommendations of all our podcast guests.
These books will have you inspired to grow, improve and fish all over the globe!