DEAR ALASKA
(fp note: since this piece was published as my submission to the TU Blogger Tour competition, I was selected by a panel of magazine...
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Matt Smythe
Apr 16, 2013
STILL AT IT
December 24th of 2011 I wrote a post titled WHY 2012 WILL BE BIG. I wrote about my (then) recent diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome and all...
Matt Smythe
Dec 26, 2012
DAY 360
It’s five days shy of the new year. Holy. Crap. Not sure if it goes without saying, but every time the calendar reaches the last page and...
Matt Smythe
Sep 15, 2012
RISING IN THE DARK
We were only two full days into our 10 day trip, but I felt as though we’d been in camp for weeks. It could be the comfort and confidence...
Matt Smythe
Sep 11, 2012
ON ONE PARTICULARLY GOOD MORNING OUT WEST
I caught some particularly good fish. #gallery-2665-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2665-1 .gallery-item { float: left;...
Matt Smythe
Jul 13, 2012
THE TARPON AND THE DAMAGE DONE
6:30 a.m. skiff running wide open and silent but for the already warm racing wind sun starting its upward creep steady growing fire and...
Matt Smythe
Jun 12, 2012
ON HAVING REACHED THE KEYS
Islamorada, I’m here and everything about you is foreign to me. Timeless retro hotel and diner and marina signs. Languid, saronged women...
Matt Smythe
May 24, 2012
BALANCE
Cam Smythe was many years and many miles from his small-town childhood in the woods and water of Upstate NY. The quick smile, quiet...
Matt Smythe
May 18, 2012
THE GIFT OF MEMORY
My grandma Doris passed away in ’93. I was 19 and stationed in Erlangen Germany, but happened to be on a month-long mission in the UK...
Matt Smythe
Apr 26, 2012
THE BOYS OF NOT-YET SUMMER
The morning started at 5:30 with a couple sausage, egg and cheese breakfast wraps, coffee and an apple fritter on the ride to a...
Matt Smythe
Apr 24, 2012
RIVER-RIGHT
I pull up my chair most mornings and find no words. The sun is up. Traffic is purposefully outbound. I watch. Drink coffee. Listen...
Matt Smythe
Apr 9, 2012
THERE’S NO WAY THEY COULD’VE KNOWN
10, 9 and 7 years ago. Swaddled and warm in their loving mother’s arms, just hours after their respective births. Brand new in this great...
Matt Smythe
Apr 5, 2012
HARD WORK, SON.
The Pere Marquette was a lesson in the art of disciplined optimism. This is not sunshine-and-puppies optimism. This is not...
Matt Smythe
Mar 26, 2012
TRIFECTA
One trip. Three videos. All from the same footage. No…not win, place and show. Win, win and win. Big props to the editorial-stylizations...
Matt Smythe
Mar 22, 2012
PRETTIER THAN A CATFISH IN SHALLOW WATER
It’s been a while in the making, but Pulp Fly, Volume 1 is finally here. This eBook anthology of stories written by fly fishing writers...
Matt Smythe
Mar 14, 2012
YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY, YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES
Then all of a sudden, there we were. Straight from the airport. Three of us and a drift boat and a river unhinged and in the trees. Gusts...
Matt Smythe
Mar 7, 2012
a.m.
Flight, flight, Grand Rapids by 10 a.m. I’ve been told Michigan knows how to welcome a fella. All I can tell you is that I’ve been...
Matt Smythe
Feb 23, 2012
HEADING FOR WATER
Back in late-April of last year, Grant Taylor, Dean Milliman and I got together to do an advertising/awareness campaign for a local...
Matt Smythe
Feb 22, 2012
THE REMINDER
It’s nineteen degrees and still dark. By dawn it’ll be colder. Overnight we were bombed with the season’s first real powder and it’s...
Matt Smythe
Feb 7, 2012
WE FISH BIG BECAUSE IT’S THERE
Until 5,500 years ago this river lived a small existence. Long before glacial melt had its way and rammed the sonofabitch clear through...
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