It’s difficult, this morning, to tell whether the Hybrid / Wiper hunts are really worth the physical pain they leave behind – aching joints, hips and stinging scratches. First, there’s the actual bushwhack in to the magical area, then there’s the warfare of bringing one of these monsters to hand, and finally, if kept, there’s the the bushwhack out with said monsters in tow. And what is the true story with poison ivy? I have been seen as something of a “fire eater” – trapseing through the stuff like it’s daisies. Immune? Still resistant? About to have a conniption fit of open ooze?

I was shooting video when I heard some voices, familiar I thought, and who dropped down the bank but Brent and Bart from Tailwaters! Seems they made their way through the briars, brambles, poison ivy, ice-slick mud, downed trees and trash – from a public access point to hit the creek where we had again decided to go after these possessed fish. “Nice shorts!” I replied, not recognizing who it was, in kind (in reference to my camo swim trunks), “Thanks!” with all the energy I could muster. Then I realized who it was as they broke through the last wall of brush – Dallas comes to Denton – Culture on the Skids!

LK was too far downstream to realize who it was and JH was too far upstream, so we talked fish for awhile and got after them again with the two B’s moving upstream to talk with JH while fishing some holes further up. My fly of choice was a freshly tied Clouser using the new hooks (Tiemco 600SP) that proved to be a deadly solution to the problem I was having the previous outing. Red and white – a true North American Fish.

All this leads me to wonder how to produce the video shot yesterday … fast, short and choppy with a rocking theme, or some sleepy theme of beauty and pristine wilderness … but I am sure we show at least one tire, car battery and I hope I left out the dead animal stuffed in a trash bag. Ahh, Culture on the Skids.

The labor level rises exponentially with producing podcastable quality video, but being in the visual profession, and a “fisherman”, the seeping of video into texasflycaster seems inevitable. I think it should rock thematically. I do see a cheaper, weather resistant video camera in my future though.