Flyfishing in Texas
  • Home
  • Fly Line Management
  • Fly Fishing Travel
  • GUIDE SERVICES
    • Calendar Dates
    • Fly Fishing Lessons
    • Casting Lessons
    • GUEST SPEAKING
    • GYOTAKU PRINTS
  • TEXAS SKIFF
  • Contact
  • POPS FLY SHOP
    • Rod Socks
  • VIDEOS
  • ABOUT
    • MANIFESTO
    • SPONSORS
  • ARCHIVES
  • CALL
  • Contact

Shutdown Monday Morning Couldn’t Be Any Better – PLUS Dealing With Devil’s

shannon | January 22, 2018

Check Your TP Before You Sit Down

Good Shutdown Monday Morning! Do you feel it? Did you have to get your own roll of toilet paper before diving into the stall in your Federal government building bathroom? Now that you’e seated and enjoying the view – of your screen – on a Monday where the sky is not falling, and we will all get along fine during this continuing debacle.

IT IS TIME for some good questions though. Do these antique politicians get paid to not do their jobs? When the government “shuts down” do these fat cats still get paid? Why should they?

Politics. Politics are the third rail of fly fishing (the one that electrocutes you into ash), but there are other sections of the third rail line that are equally deadly to peaceful fly fishing conversation. And that’s why I have tried, successfully in my opinion, to avoid the third rail all these years. Locally, there are plenty of red meat bomb throwers, who just throw out something to generate polarizing debates. I always call those guys out.

CONFESSED: RED MEAT BOMB-THROWER

This past weekend, mostly to see who is actually looking and following on Instagram, I threw out a red-meat-bomb. It was a simple photograph of an auto window sticker, reading, “Does Your TRUMP STICKER Make You Feel Stupid Yet?” and it lit a fuse that burned through a record (for me) 33 comments and paltry 26 likes. I wish there was a “dislike” for fairness. It enlightened me. My “takeaway” is that people actually LOOK at the images on Instagram feeds, and the folks that comment fall into two distinct categories – I Got Money, and Now I Got More Money, and two, the other side that realizes exactly what all this great income is actually costing the environment, the future and their children’s future.

For goodness sake, why can’t we all just Rodney King (for young readers that means “get along”)? The only politics I care about are those that have a direct effect on fly fishing. I know I am done and gone as an economic force – as long as no one cares about, and understands and supports the values of quality, creativity and integrity.

And politics – State of Texas politics – leads US to what will be the longest discussion about, arguably, the most political geography in Texas – THE DEVIL’S RIVER! I was talking to family at a recent gathering and a couple of cousins have boys that are the right age for a Devil’s River trip, and are familiar with that area from behind a rifle scope (hunting leases in the region). The time may well be right …

THE DEVILS RIVER

So taking on the last great wild ride in Texas is a bit daunting to me. In my mind, I see it as my own personal “health statement” about just how well I have healed, and as I see age 60 off in the distance … the time seems right.

Let the gathering of information begin! If YOU KNOW ANYTHING about the Devil’s River, if you have done the Devil’s River, I would sure like to know about it. I know the situation on the ground there – has changed in recent years. But I don’t really know exactly how it has changed. I am going to reach out to people I have seen have done the Devil’s – people like Alvin Dedeaux (check out that Devil’s YETI video), and Thomas Flemons at Diablo Paddlesports. I know there are more people than that, but I will start there (and try to jog my memory at the same time).

I am cautiously optimistic that I can make this trip happen, and if you are interested in making this trip – let me know. This is starting from scratch though … the Devil’s is in the details.

377
257
293
72

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Tags: Alvin Dedeaux, Devil's River, Devil's River 2018, Devil's River Fly Fishing, devil's river land acquisition, diablo paddlesports

Category: Adventure, Complimentary Reading, Culture on the Skids, Destination Fly Fishing, Devil's River, Guides, Life Observed

About the Author (Author Profile)

I write. I photograph. I fish, and I live.

Subscribe

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.

Subscribe via RSS Feed Connect on Facebook Follow Me on Twitter Pinterest Connect on Google Plus Fly Fishing Videos on Youtube

Comments (1)

Trackback URL | Comments RSS Feed

  1. shannon says:
    January 22, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    Comments are open now! My bad.

« New Mexico Fly Rod Reel Outfitting
#ReadingIsFun – The Big Reveal New Stack of Fly Fishing Books to Review »

GET CONNECTED!

CLICK TO CONNECT

Subscribe via RSS Feed Connect on Facebook Follow Me on Twitter Pinterest Connect on Google Plus Fly Fishing Videos on Youtube

INSTA FISH FOTO FEED

Send me your fish photos today, and I'll put them in the feed!
SIGN UP NOW
Exclusive Information on Fly Fishing in Texas
* = required field
unsubscribe from list

powered by MailChimp!

Smith Optics

Books and Offers for Texas Fly Caster Readers

NEW THOMAS McGUANE COLLECTION!!

LINE TAMER FOR SALE HERE!

SEE IT IN ACTION NOW!!





SKIFF SPIKES – Keep Your Eyes on The Prize instead of where your fly line lies.


Just $110. USD includes Shipping. Made right here in Texas, the good old USA, by me. Click on PayPal Button to order now!

WANT YOURS IN LIVING COLOR? Just ask about the new possibilities of getting one of these Texas Made Mats school colors.

POWER SEARCH THIS SITE

SUBSCRIBE TO TFC NEWS by E MAIL!

Enter your email address to subscribe to NEWS and receive new NEWS by email. WILL NOT BE SHARED!

Pro Photo Services

Artistic Impressions

Saltwater Fly Fishing Texas

Photographer & Writer

PHOTOGRAPHY and WRITING

Some of you know my writing from here OR publications like Drake Magazine, Lone Star Outdoor News and others. If you are wondering more about photography, be sure to visit my photography website - www.shannondrawe.com. If you need a writer, photographer and traveler to tell your story - Contact Me! The same goes for your business needs as well.

Double-Hauling Toward the Future

FLY FISHING GUIDE

If you are looking to catch the golden bone - a carp on fly - you're in the right place! I guide for carp on a Lagoon Skiff technical poling skiff from Florida, and it's barely an hour's drive from Fort Worth and Dallas. Hard to believe, right?

Not only that, I am happy to share a load of information with you about the beautiful, and still Mayberry-esque town of Pilot Point, Texas, which is less than five minutes from the best carp flats lake in Texas. 

PoPs FLY SHOP IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

Famous Flounder Fly

BOGA SCALE CERTIFIED IN TEXAS!

Flyfishing in Texas

© 2019 Flyfishing in Texas. All rights reserved. Theme by Solostream.