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February 20, 2013

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"22 degrees, snowing pretty hard...February carp off the checklist." -Miles

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Well, that was harder than I expected.

First (and only so far) carp of 2017 came a couple of weeks ago. Slow start to the year. Dang it.

New Year's Day 2016

Sort of. I can never shake the feeling that the year really hasn't started until I've caught the first carp of the season. First carp of 2016 came on Friday, 3/25. I briefly considered staying up until midnight, shooting off some fireworks and swilling cheap champagne straight from the bottle. My wife argued persuasively against that.

Anyway, hello 2016.

June - you mostly suck.

So far June:

Five days in Michigan. No carp. Actually there was one that I sorta kinda caught, but I guess I have to say I got blanked. Five carp broke me off and the one I landed, well, I'll post on that once the bitterness has ebbed a bit. Fly Carpin' and Galvin and Carp Juggler Miles managed to land a few. The bastards.

This was our toughest trip up there. Timing is everything and the best we could figure is that we were about a week early. It is of course unpredictable. You know the sweet spot will be sometime in June within about a three week window. You schedule your week and hope for the best. The past few years we've done pretty well, with 2015 probably being tops. This year, not so much.

On a much more positive note, I had a couple of articles come out in June. Below are links if you would like to pick up copies:

Short piece in TFFJ on the difficulty of balancing life as an angler and as a father. I usually get it wrong and suffer a fair amount of angst about t…

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