Friday Night Live Fly Fishing Talk – Replay

Topic loaded, and firing away is about the only way to describe my live outing two nights ago.

I was using the “Go Live” feature on YouTube, a feature that is still technically edgy and can be flaky at times. And we certainly got off to a flaky start that includes pouring water all over myself and fumbling around trying to figure out the controls – with a lot of help from the MMI Crew of course.

I am sure the other more fashionable and popular (dreadlocked) celebs will now pick up and run wildly with this “Go Live” format- using their fantastic personalities and unbounded charm and knowledge, to lap my views ten times over … it is what it is. What can I say? I like the leading bleeding edge more than most truly popular FLY FISHING celebrities do. Maybe that is because I am clearly NOT a celebrity! At least they are still watching.

Controversial Topics – All Woven In

One of the great and awful things about this format (see THAT was a “weave”) is that topics I would never touch with a ten-foot-tenkara are not, FOR ME, third rail topics. For example, this episode features talk about the condition of Lake Ray Roberts, the long decline, and the Lake’s sudden steep decline in the last five years. Fly fishing, with experience should generally get easier over time – given the same, or similar water parameters. That is not now true. That has lead to plenty of frustration, and as you have been watching, long searches for fish on my “home field” water. It doesn’t stop there though. Where do you think I go with this story of a decline? Hide and watch, I know I may have to hide myself – once you hear what I have to say about the decline of Lake Ray Roberts, Texas.

GOING LIVE

I have actually done a few live broadcasts in past years, and I find them to be nothing more than solo speeches with a slant toward, what is it called, “the weave” – a ramble filled topic laden monologue that, if I had audience participation? could be great fun and less of a sleep sedative than they currently are. I guess the trick is to keep doing it until the crowds come, and audience figures out how to participate, or God forbid, I figure out how to make these “weaves” more interesting. The best way to watch these reruns is to scroll down to the “Timeline” and choose the places you want skip to in the Friday Night Live episode – and click on those. It will skip through the “weave” and you can get that single strand you are seeking.

I am settling in on Friday nights when I am in camp, and when there are actually things to talk about that you may be interested in MAYBE talking about too! I mean, what else is it we Texas fly fishers are supposed to do on a Friday night at our / YOUR age anyway!!

FIRST SHOT

Now that I have fired the first, and most debatable, shot in the Texas fly fishing and fishing population, I feel free to turn loose of more rounds on the same fraught topic – the warmup of our Texas climate, the extremes that have become norms, and the facts on the water. God help me. I expect incoming. But, make no mistake, I am not interested in the “Blame Game.” Let’s hope we can just find the facts, stick to the facts, and figure out what is next, where is NEXT, in this grand adventure … while there is still time to adventure. Meanwhile, as I say in this replayed video, “I love LOVE being wrong,” and being proven wrong. It means people are paying attention and make a fly fishing effort to prove me wrong. END RESULT: They/You went fly fishing! And that is my approach at this time: Fly fish, chase sand bass blitzes until I prove my climate change argument to be wrong. That is what good science comes from after all.