Monday Morning
I am happy to show you the longest video I have ever posted on the Texas Fly Caster YouTube Channel this morning! It’s a story about fly fishing, exclusively fly fishing, on a new North Texas Lake.
I have to say this video is a departure from my previous formats because of its length and keeping a lot in that I normally leave on the “cutting room floor.” (See endnotes for cutting room floor meaning) And more often, than not, I don’t record the granular aspects of a lake, and winning and losing on the fly. More often, the statistics show me over decades, fly fishermen want to see winning outcomes, glorious catch-and-release scenes set in the beauty of God’s great outside. I did find beauty on this occasion, but in smaller places, like the scales of a common carp.
What I learned, as I still try to learn (even pushing close to 6 4), is that the storyteller isn’t so bad, but my videos are leaving much on the visual table. I won’t go into boring, to you, details, but as popular as the Fly Fishing Bois D’Arc video has quickly become, more changes are coming to my video “style.” And I hope you come along for that ride!
That actually leads me to a new video, and a topic I haven’t touched on in years! It seems like time to share my excitement about the current generation of cameras and gear I use to record most of the videos you LIKE for worldwide fly fishing community on YouTube. I will be trying to work on that this week, and I may even break into the new studio to record that video.
On a much more serious note, I have been feeling the heavy weight of Lefty Kreh’s teachings on my head and heart for quite some time now. It isn’t the kind of thing that keeps a follower awake at night. It isn’t the kind of thing that will shake the fly world foundations. It’s just a minor detail in the way Lefty Kreh taught me and thousands of others casting, and how his closest disciples have, here’s your hint, allowed “flexibility” in one of Lefty Kreh’s firm teachings – a teaching I experienced (hands on) and witnessed first-hand multiple times over years. Against my better instincts, that video will start shooting this week. Big egos take harder falls, and I just want to stand out of the way. Do you trust me?
THE FISH
From the lower fifties over the weekend mornings, to a high of ninety today, and back down again tomorrow. With the fronts comes the wind, and the beautiful bluebird days on Texoma will begin to be fewer and further in between. A huge upside though, is on the way – winter striper.
On North Texas lakes, it is that time when I say, “the carp are gone,” and young energetic fly fishers go out and prove me wrong. Sure, there are carp out there – in ones and twos. Not exactly a thing that excites my senses, or sensibilities.
Ponds are our microclimates for the time being, and since I am heading to Houston next week, I will be taking my Old Town Sportsman along – to at the very least, hit the pond in the neighborhood. If you are in HTown and see an upside down Old Town on an antique Forerunner? That would be me, and only me. So feel free to contact me and give me some of YOUR hotspots, or come hit this private neighborhood pond with me – NEXT WEEK!
The Winter belongs to Oklahoma this year. I would love to see the Blue River before winter sets in, but am a bit tired of “going it alone.” I will see if I can muster the gas, in both tanks, to make it up there before the first trout stocking on November 1. You know, if you are a regular here, there are tons of stories on the Blue River, and there are a fair number of Videos of the Blue River on the YouTube Channel.
