Matt Smythe
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
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.
Matt Smythe
- Nov 14, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Oct 11, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 26, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 23, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 20, 2011
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,...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 19, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 15, 2011
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....
Matt Smythe
- Sep 14, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 12, 2011
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.
Matt Smythe
- Aug 30, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Aug 22, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Aug 19, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Aug 13, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Jul 29, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Jul 11, 2011
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...
Matt Smythe
- Jul 4, 2011
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,...
Matt Smythe
- Jun 13, 2011
FORE
We don’t golf on no steenking golf course. We’re too busy catching bass and laughing at your drives.
Matt Smythe
- Jun 2, 2011
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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