A Life in Art and Angling...
“In another life”… “I was a fly fisherman.” Alan Feia-- Local Chama, New Mexico, Artist & Angler Our little community of Chama, New...
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kelleyruppert
Jul 133 min
Pops' Bugger
“If you’re stumped and wonder aloud what do to do next, at least half of the fly fishers in North America will say, ‘I don’t know, I’ll...
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kelleyruppert
May 94 min
A Fish's Story...
“Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and...
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kelleyruppert
Mar 24 min
Searching for Gold at Cooper's El Vado...
el vado: (noun) (from Spanish): a ford, a shallow place in river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across El Vado, Part One: The...
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kelleyruppert
Nov 10, 20234 min
Thoughts on Hemingway...
"Nick's heart tightened as the trout moved. He felt all the old feeling." Ernest Hemingway- Big Two Hearted River (photo above: Sherry...
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kelleyruppert
Oct 24, 20233 min
Eulogy for a Corvid...
I was gone for an hour. Less than an hour really. As I pulled onto the highway, an unkindness of ravens scattered from the side of the...
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kelleyruppert
May 24, 20235 min
Mayfly (Ephemeroptera).... A Short Life Story
"The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we...
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kelleyruppert
Mar 31, 20235 min
Tenkara
"Only those with patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily." Johann Schiller A quiet...
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kelleyruppert
Mar 2, 20235 min
Culture of Garbage...a trashy rant
"Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest." Charles Moore To say that there are a few things that I don't understand in...
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kelleyruppert
Feb 2, 20235 min
The Trojan Male....how YY brook trout could help restore native fish in Northern New Mexico
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY." Herbert Hoover Last fall, a Lake City, Colorado man caught a new...
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kelleyruppert
Nov 29, 20226 min
Going AWOL Under the Sun...a veteran's hunting story
..."are you alive, or are you not?" Sargent Wes Dyer, USMC Founder AWOL Angler describes "the Fray" This story begins, as many stories...
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kelleyruppert
Nov 1, 20222 min
Specific Moments....
"Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific...
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kelleyruppert
Sep 26, 20224 min
Streamer Junkies
"This used to be a dry fly town and unfortunately it's gone the other way...." Streamers Inc. September 22, 2023. First day of autumn,...
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kelleyruppert
Sep 2, 20225 min
A slight change in plans...
In a world that insists on "means" and "ends," that dooms every path to a destination, fishing elides the categories and so slips the...
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kelleyruppert
Aug 7, 20224 min
Just Not Sexy Enough....#gilapandora
“This fish evolved alongside the Rio Grande cutthroat trout and the Rio Grande sucker. It fills a unique tropic position within the...
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kelleyruppert
Jul 3, 20225 min
Reel Talk for the Fly-Curious
"Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic...
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kelleyruppert
Jun 5, 20225 min
Field Notes ....a Fish Under Fire
"A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants, from insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans." ~Aldo Leopold...
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kelleyruppert
May 2, 20224 min
"So..how long have you been fishing?"...an Essay on a Lifetime Journey
"All other divisions aside, I think in the end there are but two kinds of anglers--those born to fishing and those not. It has nothing to...
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kelleyruppert
Mar 27, 20223 min
Mountain Meltdown...Advice for Fishing Spring Runoff
Remote winters drain into the valley in icy, turbid water, running between grassy banks. Ted Leeson The Habit of Rivers As spring begins...
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kelleyruppert
Mar 3, 20224 min
To Tie or To Buy?
"The grossest and most substantial of our equipment exists solely to serve the slightest; a thousand dollars' worth of gear is given...
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