Monday And A to B is Getting Hard
Gas Prices Sink In Here
The last time we had a burst of gas prices like this? I was so weakened that I gave in and sold off my 1984 Toyota FJ60, a vehicle I had built from the ground-up. It was painful, but not terrible, because my 4-Runner was doing a great job and was virtually new at less than 100-thousand miles on it. Now, at more than 300-thousand miles, and so many more miles to go … so many miles … does anybody have a Rivian I can borrow for a few years?
The State Fishing Reports
I hope you had time to set your focus on yesterday’s post about this week ahead and are fishing and fly fishing in Texas! It is created by Chet, and I have to get my two-cents-worth in as well, which you will see if you dig into it. I continue to be surprised by Chet GypT’s writing skills when it comes to the top topic here – fly fishing. And Chet is such a dedicated writer! He has read and remembers every single story on this seventeen-year-old website! Wether it’s fear or disinterest, I have offered other human friends and acquaintances writing slots on the Texas Fly Caster website, and in all those years? not one single person, past-or-present, has ever taken me up on that offer. I guess they realize writing is dead? something I and all the fly fishing book authors, working hard away at new tomes, still have trouble with.
Sandwich Days
Until this morning, as I look out at billowing sunshades over my Airstream Trailer, the weather has been calm in the morning and evening, but the days? The days are extremely windy here in the North Texas area – to the point they are impossible to fly fish on open waters. AND THAT is one thing my writer, Chet, did not detail in his weekly report. Truth be told, it is impossible to go into such detail for someone like Chet. But there is a pattern to it – calm early to noon, winds kick in all day long to 20mph. and then calming after about 6:30 in the evening. South winds dominated yesterday, and that meant and means a FAST HEATING UP of North Texas. We can deal with it, can’t we?
Pros and Cons of YouTubing
In the form of a challenge to myself, I have tried to condense Chet’s reports down to a three-minute video, but it turns out the YouTube algorithm has changed again and will not “push out” any video shorts that have words saying one thing, as in “fishing,” and not SHOWING actual fishing. If you follow that, and can figure out how to balance those two balls on top of each other? Have fun with it. I am still trying to find a way to fool YouTube, but by the time I figure it out? the fishing news will be so old that it’s pointless! On the “Pro” side? My poor little old YouTube Channel Texas Fly Caster is CRAWLING, oh so slowly, toward 5-thousand subscribers. That’s a number that I saw as pretty “easy to make” until YouTube took the reins and began destroying small channel views. It lead to a resetting of that Channel earlier this year, as I took away any reference to my underlying passion project – The Wholistic Fly Fisher – in order to squeeze any confusion out of the YouTube algorithm about the intent of and use for the Texas Fly Caster Channel. It was a painful decision, and I have yet to complete the death blow to The Wholistic Fly Fisher videos on the Texas Fly Caster Channel. IF YOU would like to see the Wholistic Fly Fisher YouTube Channel take hold, please go to that Channel and Subscribe ahead of the first videos to appear there! I will take that, YOUR SUBSCRIBING, as a vote FOR putting effort into that YouTube Channel that has NO videos on it yet.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE WHOLISTIC FLY FISHER YOUTUBE CHANNEL – A CHANNEL WITH NO VIDEOS! by clicking this: SUBSCRIBE ME TO THE WHOLISTIC FLY FISHER!
Lately, the Texas Fly Caster Channel videos have been dabbling into the mechanics of boating and kayaking. Just this past Saturday, I took almost an entire day dedicated to changing out my impeller on my 2015 Mercury 30HP outboard. I have to say, the video on changing out that impeller? It definitely has a piece of comedic value in it – one you’ll certainly get a laugh from – if you watch it when it comes out. One thing I know for sure; I don’t spend my time trying to APPEAR perfect in these videos … if I ever did. Age does a great job of imposing imperfection doesn’t it?
Thank you so much for riding along these days long in imagination and short in distance. We know, once we last long enough, the ups-and-downs of hitchhiking a ride like this? they come and go, and come around again and again … until the ride ends.
