“The Amazon of your youth”…love it! I spent so much time as a kid riding my bicycle to a crick (yep, we call ‘em cricks) to fish crawdads. My buddies and I had so much fun and the only care in the world was who’s chicken liver baited strings could pull in the most crawdads. Thanks for the reminder to find the Amazon of my youth! Well said.
Amen Brother! So much of this resonates for me from growing up in the woods of Ohio and searching in my later years for that " Amazon of my youth ". You,re lucky yours is still out your back door. I have to travel 1500 miles or more to find mine in Montana, North Dakota, or Minnesota. Love your words of wisdom!
Thanks Terry. I've gotten very busy the past couple months preparing for fly fishing shows. After Edson, NJ this coming weekend, I think it's time to walk the creek again with a rod. It's right there, yet it's been a couple months now. Too busy...unpleasant words.
Excellent video and narrative! I was lucky to spend summers in NY on the Delaware and play in creeks just like this one. And my whole life spent on the s fla coast. There should not be plastic and garbage in our beautiful rivers and oceans. I spend time cleaning up as much as I can and miss the days of picking up sea shells instead of plastic.
Mark, your words throughout this video did hit home. Loved how you blended them in as you fished along and btw, you have an awesome bow and arrow cast! And just like I do, I’ll take a snag after snag but keep trying to get it there yet again. Oh , and that awesome catch of that very much sought after ‘Rainbow Croc ‘at the end! That got me laughing so hard! Guess that’s all we really need , stop the stress and regimental robot life and go have fun like you did when your life was so much simpler then. There’s still time to try to go back to those times. Btw, I see that the Croc was a definitely keeper! Thanks for helping reset my mental status and sanity. I think we need more of you in our lives! More videos and maybe another book! Thanks man! Thanks for being “the real McCoy”! God Bless.
I also can sense some similarity to your writing to none other than John Gierach. I’m rereading all his books as I speak. In chronological order. You’re in very good company bud, keep it going. You really have talent!
Mark! I absolutely loved this! I think you did something I've never seen before. You mixed the author, the narrator, the fisherman and the filmmaker into one! You mixed everything perfectly into something unique! Really awesome man!!!
Well dang man, I appreciate that. Yours are always put together well and pretty darn professional...so that means a lot to me. This is all cell phone. Cell videos, stock phone photo options to create it, nothing special. Maybe go-pro some day...maybe. lol
Mark, you've captured the vibe perfectly. I grew up on the polluted Hudson River. I now live in Alexandria Virginia near the Potomac. I don't fish the Potomac for Bass or Shad. Rather, I walk the Little Hunting Creek North and South Forks catching Creek chubb and pan fish. There are parts that are small bits of Eden, but you will always find the trash (including used Huggies *^(*&^) that some people knowingly leave. I will bring a trash bag and be able to fill it with styrofoam and plastic bottles.
I've always fished small creeks and wadeable rivers (58 years now). I'm not much of a lake or pond guy, but there's nothing like being on the water period, no matter where it is. The local creek for me (8 minutes away) is considered a ditch, but I catch some really nice smallie tanks in there.
Great video man. Wise words that most importantly make you think. Many of the things you say haunt me, but in a good way! I miss the days that the tiny stream running behind the little league field was my Amazon
When I lived in the Houston TX area it was my only reasonable option but it was satisfying. I got to practice knot tying, casting, retrieving and I caught fish, some common and some I’d never seen before and will never see again. I dodged fire ants and avoided alligators and smiled. Now I have more time but gas prices make it impractical to travel as far as I would like to fish the trout streams around me but there are creeks running through town that are nearly in walking distance. The kind of creeks that probably make passers-by wonder, “What’s that old idiot doing in there, doesn’t he know there’s no fish in there”? Even that is satisfying because there are fish in there…
“The Amazon of your youth”…love it! I spent so much time as a kid riding my bicycle to a crick (yep, we call ‘em cricks) to fish crawdads. My buddies and I had so much fun and the only care in the world was who’s chicken liver baited strings could pull in the most crawdads. Thanks for the reminder to find the Amazon of my youth! Well said.
Nothing like being in the outdoors doing what you love my friend!
Amen Brother! So much of this resonates for me from growing up in the woods of Ohio and searching in my later years for that " Amazon of my youth ". You,re lucky yours is still out your back door. I have to travel 1500 miles or more to find mine in Montana, North Dakota, or Minnesota. Love your words of wisdom!
Thanks Terry. I've gotten very busy the past couple months preparing for fly fishing shows. After Edson, NJ this coming weekend, I think it's time to walk the creek again with a rod. It's right there, yet it's been a couple months now. Too busy...unpleasant words.
Excellent video and narrative! I was lucky to spend summers in NY on the Delaware and play in creeks just like this one. And my whole life spent on the s fla coast. There should not be plastic and garbage in our beautiful rivers and oceans. I spend time cleaning up as much as I can and miss the days of picking up sea shells instead of plastic.
Mark, your words throughout this video did hit home. Loved how you blended them in as you fished along and btw, you have an awesome bow and arrow cast! And just like I do, I’ll take a snag after snag but keep trying to get it there yet again. Oh , and that awesome catch of that very much sought after ‘Rainbow Croc ‘at the end! That got me laughing so hard! Guess that’s all we really need , stop the stress and regimental robot life and go have fun like you did when your life was so much simpler then. There’s still time to try to go back to those times. Btw, I see that the Croc was a definitely keeper! Thanks for helping reset my mental status and sanity. I think we need more of you in our lives! More videos and maybe another book! Thanks man! Thanks for being “the real McCoy”! God Bless.
Well...thank you. Next book is well underway. And you hit on a great fact...Robots don't know how to have fun. Robots are just that...Robots.
I also can sense some similarity to your writing to none other than John Gierach. I’m rereading all his books as I speak. In chronological order. You’re in very good company bud, keep it going. You really have talent!
Mark! I absolutely loved this! I think you did something I've never seen before. You mixed the author, the narrator, the fisherman and the filmmaker into one! You mixed everything perfectly into something unique! Really awesome man!!!
Well dang man, I appreciate that. Yours are always put together well and pretty darn professional...so that means a lot to me. This is all cell phone. Cell videos, stock phone photo options to create it, nothing special. Maybe go-pro some day...maybe. lol
Mark, you've captured the vibe perfectly. I grew up on the polluted Hudson River. I now live in Alexandria Virginia near the Potomac. I don't fish the Potomac for Bass or Shad. Rather, I walk the Little Hunting Creek North and South Forks catching Creek chubb and pan fish. There are parts that are small bits of Eden, but you will always find the trash (including used Huggies *^(*&^) that some people knowingly leave. I will bring a trash bag and be able to fill it with styrofoam and plastic bottles.
If more anglers reized the value of these little local urban creeks, I bet they'd be in better shape. The creeks AND the anglers.
I've always fished small creeks and wadeable rivers (58 years now). I'm not much of a lake or pond guy, but there's nothing like being on the water period, no matter where it is. The local creek for me (8 minutes away) is considered a ditch, but I catch some really nice smallie tanks in there.
So many people stay unhappy by overlooking these small local creeks while waiting for "time" to get to better water.
Great video man. Wise words that most importantly make you think. Many of the things you say haunt me, but in a good way! I miss the days that the tiny stream running behind the little league field was my Amazon
When I lived in the Houston TX area it was my only reasonable option but it was satisfying. I got to practice knot tying, casting, retrieving and I caught fish, some common and some I’d never seen before and will never see again. I dodged fire ants and avoided alligators and smiled. Now I have more time but gas prices make it impractical to travel as far as I would like to fish the trout streams around me but there are creeks running through town that are nearly in walking distance. The kind of creeks that probably make passers-by wonder, “What’s that old idiot doing in there, doesn’t he know there’s no fish in there”? Even that is satisfying because there are fish in there…
These creeks running through towns are gifts most overlook for sure. If you aren't a fishing snob...you are happier more often because of them!
I can relate to this thanks brother
Thanks for watching! I'm slowly getting another together.
wise words! 😎🤙🏼
That creek doesn't look that bad at all!
It's bad. To film how bad it really is would've made it a depressing one. Not what I wanted.
That left hand must come back to the reel before the second haul.. Make your life eaasier.
Thanks. I've become accustomed to the gard life. Ha ha ha ha