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    Matt Smythe
    • Jan 18, 2012
    • 3 min

    THE VIEW FROM MY BOOKSHELVES

    My home office has got some hellafied built-in bookshelves. As a matter of fact, those bookshelves and the barn were the two things that...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Nov 23, 2011
    • 1 min

    LONG HAUL

    And sometimes you throw a punch that starts from your toes and finishes with you standing over him saying get up…I’m not done with you yet.
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    Matt Smythe
    • Nov 14, 2011
    • 3 min

    HEALING THOSE WHO SERVED

    The weekend of November 4th brought a pretty heavy frost to the Salmon River near Altmar, NY. It also brought over a dozen combat...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Oct 11, 2011
    • 1 min

    BLOODY KNUCKLES

    It was a morning like any other morning on the water. Then it wasn’t. Big nasty pike got a whole jaw-full of strip-set-streamer-and-eight...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 26, 2011
    • 3 min

    FOR THOSE FOLLOWING ALONG AT HOME

    Two years have now officially passed since my first blog post. It’s been a great ride so far, and I consider myself fortunate to have the...
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    THE IDAHO TRIP: HENRY’S FORK
    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 23, 2011
    • 5 min

    THE IDAHO TRIP: HENRY’S FORK

    When we were planning this trip to Idaho, right up to the week prior, there were gaps in our itinerary. Even after we had finished dinner...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 20, 2011
    • 5 min

    THE IDAHO TRIP: THE SOUTH FORK, DAY 2

    The next morning our drive to the South Fork felt entirely different. It was the same landscape of sprawling grain fields and foothills,...
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    THE IDAHO TRIP: SOUTH FORK OF THE SNAKE
    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 19, 2011
    • 4 min

    THE IDAHO TRIP: SOUTH FORK OF THE SNAKE

    DAY 1 By 9:30 we had packed the truck, eaten some breakfast, gassed and coffee’d up and were on the road for our four hour haul to Idaho...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 15, 2011
    • 3 min

    THE IDAHO TRIP: PAYETTE AND SALMON RIVERS

    Out front of the hotel and across the highway, the geese were up, flying west/southwest at 7 a.m. just as they had the last two mornings....
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    THE IDAHO TRIP: RIVER X
    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 14, 2011
    • 7 min

    THE IDAHO TRIP: RIVER X

    Looking out the window at 30,000 feet over the canyons and low-slung foothills of southwest Idaho, my brain still hadn’t registered the...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Sep 12, 2011
    • 1 min

    I’M HOME. SORT OF.

    Ten Days. Five different rivers. A whole lot of new friends. Idaho kicks ass. Stay tuned for reports from the trip.
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    Matt Smythe
    • Aug 30, 2011
    • 1 min

    GRAPPLE AND GRIN

    I’ve managed to get myself tied into a trip to Idaho with a close friend of mine. We’re going for work. Just enough work to be able to...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Aug 22, 2011
    • 1 min

    GETTING AFTER IT

    It’s been a busy summer for house-projects, travel and work. Four months have already passed since I made the jump from the agency world...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Aug 19, 2011
    • 1 min

    TWO MORE FROM THE MOUNTAIN

    PADDLING Fat white-gray clouds on blue beyond the rugged pine shores, east beyond Indian and Wolf Mountains, west beyond Chaumont Swamp...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Aug 13, 2011
    • 1 min

    JUDGING DISTANCE

    Ten foot kayak in eight feet of water. Settled into the glass between a field of lily pads and a line of flooded pine stumps— trees that...
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    THANKFULLY MY ALTER-EGO FISHES TOO
    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 29, 2011
    • 2 min

    THANKFULLY MY ALTER-EGO FISHES TOO

    I met Mike this past winter at a fly-tying event he organizes, called Guys, Flies & Pies. We discovered a mutual affinity for bass, and...
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    THERE’S ALWAYS TIME FOR ONE MORE
    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 11, 2011
    • 3 min

    THERE’S ALWAYS TIME FOR ONE MORE

    The plan was to paddle our kayaks into the West River for bass. Jason and I made the same trip last year and have fished a handful of...
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    NEXT TIME I’LL TAKE MORE VIDEO
    Matt Smythe
    • Jul 4, 2011
    • 1 min

    NEXT TIME I’LL TAKE MORE VIDEO

    We didn’t keep track of how many we caught. But we know Gersh caught none. …and Tony stayed away from the birds this time around. Man,...
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jun 13, 2011
    • 1 min

    FORE

    We don’t golf on no steenking golf course. We’re too busy catching bass and laughing at your drives.
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    Matt Smythe
    • Jun 2, 2011
    • 4 min

    THREE DAYS & THIRTY NINE YEARS

    This past Memorial Day weekend, I spent a few days camping in the Adirondacks with some new friends and fishing for native brook trout....
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