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    Matt Smythe
    • May 17, 2013
    • 3 min

    DEAR ALASKA

    (fp note: since this piece was published as my submission to the TU Blogger Tour competition, I was selected by a panel of magazine...
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    STILL AT IT
    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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    DAY 360
    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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