Floods, anarchy, and river gods
The season kicks off with a rush of fun, with the TroutFest agenda dropping, a little soliloquy, a report from our book club, and my first significant fish of the new season.
CFS, inc.: Welcome to the jungle.
We're into our second Spring term class section, and just about a month away from the big to-do in Maupin. The general trout season opener in Oregon is under a week out. It's all happening.
Here's the one big important thing I want you to pay attention to this week:
🎣 The Maupin Meetup is coming up, in just over a month. The Deschutes River Alliance shared its schedule this week, and it's even more jam-packed than last year. Check it out.
💻 Boring tech stuff: When I wrote "the site migration seems to have been successful" last week, I knew I was tempting fate, and inviting Murphy's Law to strike. And, of course, we're working through some email deliverability issues.
But, savvy as fate can be, it did not plan that I included the hopeful material as ruse, to draw out the gremlins in the system, and from here on out everything will be smooth sailing. (Hear that, Mr. Murphy?)
Floods, anarchy, and river gods
We had our first Read By the River book club meeting the week before last, and I finally got around to writing a recap, going over all the themes we covered, and sharing some of the amazing resources attendees shared.
But, it so happens, my buddy Nick Green (who is a real person, not an alter ego, I promise) came by as I was preparing for the conversation, and got me going on the book, and the author, and some of the feelings it started off for me.
And then the camera came out, both Nicks were off to the races.
And this is the result:
Anyway, this was a lot of fun to make. I think I'll try and bribe Mr. Green to come by again. Learn more about the book club, and other perspectives on In Praise of Floods here:
Nick Parish
TroutFest 2025 planning
It's time to take that vague set of plans around visiting Maupin at the end of April for TroutFest and start solidifying.
This year's TroutFest lineup is even more exciting than in years past, with something for everyone. And, this year, the DRA is offering scholarships for folks who want to attend but can't swing it, financially. There's a lot more where that came from, in our TroutFest 2025 overview post:
Nick Parish
Season's greetings
Last week, a nice largemouth, this week, a lovely carp. This one managed to stay put long enough for some photos before heading back into a spawning frenzy.
"A man who fishes habitually for carp has a strange look in his eyes."
Arthur Ransome
"Carp"
Rod and Line (1929)
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