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    Matt Smythe
    • Nov 17, 2017
    • 9 min

    FIVE WEIGHT

    Not here. You fuckers cannot follow me here. His dad looked over his shoulder from the tailgate at Charlie, standing in the tall grass...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 4, 2015
    • 1 min

    BRECKENRIDGE

    In just a short couple weeks, I’ll be heading out to Colorado for the 2015 Breckenridge Film Festival. As some of you may already know,...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 25, 2015
    • 3 min

    HARDWOODS

    I unearthed my old grad school poet’s notebook this morning. Cracking the cover, I found a sheaf of paper that held several iterations of...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Apr 17, 2015
    • 1 min

    THE DISTANCE BETWEEN

    They’re like clockwork against the far bank. Two browns holding down the midge-buffet line. Rise…rise. Count three. Rise…rise. I know how...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Apr 1, 2015
    • 1 min

    HUSH FOR ONE SECOND

    hush for one second I said hold still what do you hear I asked geese wind everything then off they went
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    Matt Smythe
    • Dec 31, 2014
    • 2 min

    PEACE, REGARDLESS

    I sing my wisdomless parable to the again changing season. To the birds’ hushed morning selves. To the gathering blanket of snow. To the...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Dec 29, 2014
    • 3 min

    WEST TO WATER

    Midway from Chicago to LA it still hasn’t hit me. Sprawling canyon, salt flat, scrub brown and mountains crawl below. I carried on three...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Dec 9, 2014
    • 4 min

    THE COURAGE OF HOPE

    I have two handwritten quotes on two small pieces of yellow legal paper taped to the wall next to my desk. Each given to me by friends at...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Dec 4, 2014
    • 3 min

    SHOOTING DARTS IN ALASKA

    When the day falls and the thin promise of neon rises, the brown liquor and beer go down easier, and with more truth, and there’s a vague...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 24, 2014
    • 1 min

    FIVE YEARS

    Five years ago today I hit publish on my first post here. I had spend the better part of two months trying to figure out what it was that...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 22, 2014
    • 5 min

    DISPATCH FROM BEAVER ISLAND

    From the Monday I received Kevin Morlock’s email inviting me to fly fish for carp on Beaver Island, to the Wednesday when the wheels of...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Apr 6, 2014
    • 2 min

    GLORIOUS MAYHEM

    Last year we got into fish. Maybe a dozen six-to-ten-pound lake-run soupbones that had a mind to break our ankles before we even took a...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Mar 28, 2014
    • 3 min

    WHERE THE ROAD NARROWS

    When we piled out into the dust and cool of the morning we were barely a quarter-mile from the end of the road. Unlike the sprawling...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jan 4, 2014
    • 1 min

    TRACKS IN JANUARY SNOW

    I turn to head back inside pressing new steps into the snow different than the ones that brought me here
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    Matt Smythe
    • Nov 26, 2013
    • 4 min

    THE THINGS WE CARRY

    There was not much room for gear. A rod tube or two and small day pack each, plus the 5-gallon survival bucket, shotgun and a waterproof...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 31, 2013
    • 1 min

    INHALING GIANTNESS

    My journal holds a breadcrumb collection from the path I just traveled. Loosely penned notes, dates, times, temps, names. Hopeful...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 15, 2013
    • 1 min

    OUT OF OFFICE

    Electronic communications will stop somewhere short of my location for the next week. I’ll catch up with you when I get back on 7/23. Be...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jun 14, 2013
    • 1 min

    THAT IS THE TEMPO

    The boys and I and my friend Jason hit opening day of trout season on a reasonably-kept secret Finger Lakes stream again this past April...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jun 6, 2013
    • 2 min

    SKIFF FULL-ON RUNNING

    Skiff full-on running out of Islamorada open water pounding wave to wave in the backcountry fleeting bottom playing tag rising and...
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    Matt Smythe
    • May 30, 2013
    • 1 min

    BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS

    By the time you read this I’ll be on a plane that’ll deliver me from my northern Point A to a southern connection that’ll then deliver me...
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