The other day I was browsing the web about fly fishing and came across the California heritage trout challenge. It’s a unique program developed by the California Department of Fish and Game, and it encourages anglers to seek out different species of trout in the state. California is an especially lucky state, as it is home to such a wide variety of trout. Participants of the program must catch and document at least 6 different types of trout in order…
Apologies for the lack of posts lately, but I have been busy during the last few months of summer. This is a one man show, so I’ve been trying to convince myself to write more posts. On to the more exciting news: on my most recent vacation, I was able to make time for a bit of fly fishing! Any time I find myself near a place that has even a remote potential of being a trout habitat, I have…
Part of my family has lived in the same 5 square miles for close to a century. We knew a local pond by the name of the old farmer who once owned all the land surrounding it. When his family sold that land half a century ago, a developer named it after the neighborhood they built on the land. It was always interesting to me how one could gauge a person’s time in the area by the name they used…