Matt Smythe
DEAR ALASKA
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 16, 2013
- 3 min
STILL AT IT
December 24th of 2011 I wrote a post titled WHY 2012 WILL BE BIG. I wrote about my (then) recent diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome and all...
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Matt Smythe
- Dec 26, 2012
- 2 min
DAY 360
It’s five days shy of the new year. Holy. Crap. Not sure if it goes without saying, but every time the calendar reaches the last page and...
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Matt Smythe
- Sep 15, 2012
- 3 min
RISING IN THE DARK
We were only two full days into our 10 day trip, but I felt as though we’d been in camp for weeks. It could be the comfort and confidence...
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Matt Smythe
- Sep 11, 2012
- 1 min
ON ONE PARTICULARLY GOOD MORNING OUT WEST
I caught some particularly good fish. #gallery-2665-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2665-1 .gallery-item { float: left;...
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Matt Smythe
- Jul 13, 2012
- 1 min
THE TARPON AND THE DAMAGE DONE
6:30 a.m. skiff running wide open and silent but for the already warm racing wind sun starting its upward creep steady growing fire and...
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Matt Smythe
- Jun 12, 2012
- 1 min
ON HAVING REACHED THE KEYS
Islamorada, I’m here and everything about you is foreign to me. Timeless retro hotel and diner and marina signs. Languid, saronged women...
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Matt Smythe
- May 24, 2012
- 4 min
BALANCE
Cam Smythe was many years and many miles from his small-town childhood in the woods and water of Upstate NY. The quick smile, quiet...
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Matt Smythe
- May 18, 2012
- 3 min
THE GIFT OF MEMORY
My grandma Doris passed away in ’93. I was 19 and stationed in Erlangen Germany, but happened to be on a month-long mission in the UK...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 26, 2012
- 3 min
THE BOYS OF NOT-YET SUMMER
The morning started at 5:30 with a couple sausage, egg and cheese breakfast wraps, coffee and an apple fritter on the ride to a...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 24, 2012
- 1 min
RIVER-RIGHT
I pull up my chair most mornings and find no words. The sun is up. Traffic is purposefully outbound. I watch. Drink coffee. Listen...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 9, 2012
- 1 min
THERE’S NO WAY THEY COULD’VE KNOWN
10, 9 and 7 years ago. Swaddled and warm in their loving mother’s arms, just hours after their respective births. Brand new in this great...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 5, 2012
- 7 min
HARD WORK, SON.
The Pere Marquette was a lesson in the art of disciplined optimism. This is not sunshine-and-puppies optimism. This is not...
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Matt Smythe
- Mar 26, 2012
- 1 min
TRIFECTA
One trip. Three videos. All from the same footage. No…not win, place and show. Win, win and win. Big props to the editorial-stylizations...
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Matt Smythe
- Mar 22, 2012
- 1 min
PRETTIER THAN A CATFISH IN SHALLOW WATER
It’s been a while in the making, but Pulp Fly, Volume 1 is finally here. This eBook anthology of stories written by fly fishing writers...
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Matt Smythe
- Mar 14, 2012
- 1 min
YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY, YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES
Then all of a sudden, there we were. Straight from the airport. Three of us and a drift boat and a river unhinged and in the trees. Gusts...
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Matt Smythe
- Mar 7, 2012
- 1 min
a.m.
Flight, flight, Grand Rapids by 10 a.m. I’ve been told Michigan knows how to welcome a fella. All I can tell you is that I’ve been...
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Matt Smythe
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
HEADING FOR WATER
Back in late-April of last year, Grant Taylor, Dean Milliman and I got together to do an advertising/awareness campaign for a local...
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Matt Smythe
- Feb 22, 2012
- 1 min
THE REMINDER
It’s nineteen degrees and still dark. By dawn it’ll be colder. Overnight we were bombed with the season’s first real powder and it’s...
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Matt Smythe
- Feb 7, 2012
- 1 min
WE FISH BIG BECAUSE IT’S THERE
Until 5,500 years ago this river lived a small existence. Long before glacial melt had its way and rammed the sonofabitch clear through...
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