Essays
As Fall’s cold weather narrows your fishing choices, a certain desperation begins to taint your fishing. A short essay by Tom Chandler.
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Living on great trout water – after living nowhere near it for so long – tends to leave you giddy. At least it should. A 1500 word essay by Tom Chandler.
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The solo road trip isn’t always about the fishing. In truth, it’s one of the rare moments in your life when you can do whatever the hell you want. A 1900 word essay by Tom Chandler.
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They’re everywhere. They’re successful fishers. And they’re completely wrong about the sport. An essay by Tom Chandler.
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The fishing buddy occupies a lofty perch in fly fishing literature. This humorous essay reveals the dark, ugly truth…
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These are really good. Are you working with new ones Tom?
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I’ve got a pair of partially written essays, but between the blog entries and my paid writing work (Tommy needs a new set of clients), the essay work has been sadly neglected.
I’d love to write a whole book’s worth of the things, but barring a winning lottery ticket, it isn’t going to happen anytime soon…
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Tom, Was just turned on to your trout underground site by a friend on a fly fishing forum. Great essays!!
I’ve recently returned to fly fishing after a few years recovering and getting used to life as an amputee. There isn’t much trout water in Texas, so I mostly pursue warm water fish.
I do enjoy your essays and the stuff I’ve found at your trout underground site. Keep up the good work. It truly appears to be a labor of love, that reaches out and speaks to me.
Rodger
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Thanks Rodger! I just added another, and I hope to expand some of the blog posts into essays. (Note the use of the word “hope”).
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Tom,
Love your essays and yes if you can find the time you should do a book of them. They are extremely well written and you have an excellent writing style. Very easy (for lack of a better term) and relaxed.
Just reading them and I can almost feel like I am there experiencing the moment with you. Enjoy them very much.
As I said before in a previous post, we don’t have much in the way of trout fishing here in Cincinnati so I get my trout “fix” through you and othersl.
Keep up the great writing.
Harry
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Thanks Harry! A book has entered my thoughts, and in fact I’ve done a fair amount of research on the subject.
It’s still a possibility, though I also view the Trout Underground as a modern form of electronic publishing. Informal, but fun.
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Tom, DON’T publish these, they need miles of revisions. Really quite terrible stuff. Keep up the good work! It’s the terrible stuff that gets me through winter.
Mark
PS…Please, no more writing! I can’t stand this stuff.
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…especially those pictures with Wayne. Oh, yeah, the photos need a lot of work as well.
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Mohtashem! Fancy meeting you here. You up during the winter at all?
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I love the solo road trip essay. I do it myself a couple times a year. Sometimes to photograph and sometimes to camp and fish. Good stuff. DR
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you should make it so others can submit essays
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Unfortunately, the Underground already chews up my writing time; acting as an editor for other pieces would make it worse.
Try the StoryArc site. Great writing and submissions.
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