to desire the replica

posted on: June 5th, 2009

Across from the dog park that Maggi & I frequent there is a sports field. On any given day there is some small sporting war being waged; soccer, rugby, lacrosse, teenagers playing hide the tongue…. Yesterday as I sat on my bench in the sun watching Mags sniff copious amounts of dog urine there were a couple of dozen people fly fishing on the grass. It’s obviously to perfect their technique, which I get, but it looks so strange. There are so many of them acting as though it is so perfectly normal that they make the small boy flying the red kite on the other side of the field look out of place.

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Jeannie Says:

People are so weird

LOL! It must be a reflection of the area. If I saw anyone with a fishing pole around here I’d wonder if they’d taken a wrong turn.

Hannah Says:

That IS weird! But at least they weren’t in canoes and practicing their “techniques”. LOL.

shine Says:

Is it weird that I now want to fly fish in the grass?

I took my son out on the grass to teach him how to fly cast just a few weeks ago. It’s much less frustrating to learn that way than on the water, when you should be catching fish!

I’ve never seen that but there’s not a lot of fly fishing around here.

I HAVE seen people actually fishing on the banks of the Anacostia River. I can’t imagine eating anything pulled out of there.

f.B Says:

a couple dozen? weird. i get a father and son. or two fathers and two sons… but a couple dozen? that sounds like a convention.

Bon Don Says:

This post just reminded me of that movie Catch & Release (with my crush Kevin Smith) … so what I’m saying is anything that reminds me of Kevin Smith makes me happy… therefore your post made me happy… so yeah that’s all I got!

Hope you’re feeling better, have a great weekend :)

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