a couple three weeks

by mike willis
(elk grove, ca, usa)

it's been a couple three weeks now since i stepped myself into the wacky and sublime world of tenkara. i must say that it has been a really great ride so far. i've been cutting my teeth about a half-mile from my home, and somewhere between the lessons of patience and the festering blackberry brambles waiting to pop themselves from my hands, i've managed to learn a little bit and even caught a fishy or two. as the days get longer and the air warms, i wonder what the next couple three weeks will hold.

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.