Matt SmytheMay 18, 2012THE GIFT OF MEMORYMy 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...
Matt SmytheApr 26, 2012THE BOYS OF NOT-YET SUMMERThe morning started at 5:30 with a couple sausage, egg and cheese breakfast wraps, coffee and an apple fritter on the ride to a...
Matt SmytheApr 24, 2012RIVER-RIGHTI pull up my chair most mornings and find no words. The sun is up. Traffic is purposefully outbound. I watch. Drink coffee. Listen...
Matt SmytheApr 9, 2012THERE’S NO WAY THEY COULD’VE KNOWN10, 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...
Matt SmytheApr 5, 2012HARD WORK, SON.The Pere Marquette was a lesson in the art of disciplined optimism. This is not sunshine-and-puppies optimism. This is not...
Matt SmytheMar 26, 2012TRIFECTAOne trip. Three videos. All from the same footage. No…not win, place and show. Win, win and win. Big props to the editorial-stylizations...
Matt SmytheMar 22, 2012PRETTIER THAN A CATFISH IN SHALLOW WATERIt’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...
Matt SmytheMar 14, 2012YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY, YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCESThen 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...
Matt SmytheMar 7, 2012a.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...
Matt SmytheFeb 23, 2012HEADING FOR WATERBack in late-April of last year, Grant Taylor, Dean Milliman and I got together to do an advertising/awareness campaign for a local...