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Sink Tips and Shooting Heads

by Brian Kozminski | Nov 11, 2013 | Angling Reports, Lifestyle, Trips & Guides, Uncategorized

The week was feverish with phone calls and e-mails dispersed across various social media outlets. I had a Saturday off from the restaurant and guide trips, it was also the first week in November and the forecast looked ‘fishy’. Wind gusts 20-30 mph, chance...

Jupiter Rising

by Brian Kozminski | Oct 31, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle, People & Interviews, Uncategorized

We meandered through a series of dirt roads and past a few farm houses in the rolling countryside, noticing the finite color on the determined oak trees as they held on to the near rust color leaves. The lake seems to be cradled by the surrounding blend of conifers...

SMITHFLY Kilt & YETI conversion

by Brian Kozminski | Oct 24, 2013 | Gear & Equipment, News & Updates, Uncategorized

Understand, it is with great hesitation that I approach my prized cooler with a 5/64″ drill bit. Mrs Koz is in the background. “You are going to do WHAT?” Yes. Drill. Holes. In my YETI. Reluctant barely describes the inner turmoil the parts of the...

Doing my part for ‘Conversation’- part I

by Brian Kozminski | Oct 4, 2013 | Environment, Uncategorized

We are near the river, it is misty Saturday morning. I can smell the mix of an fresh pot of coffee and the distinct aroma of musty waders, I love this combination. After a rather large collection various motivated individuals, we are assigned various beats on the...

Dirty Pleasures

by Brian Kozminski | Sep 23, 2013 | Angling Reports, News & Updates, Trips & Guides

It might be like meeting a newly divorced parents boyfriend. Or rather, your twenty year-old child, just broke up with former long term highly potential life-mate, and after months or years of hearing him/her drone on about “There’s no one for...
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