Monthly Archives: January 2010

HAIKU MONDAY:On Home Waters, Steelhead and Smokers

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is looking to start the best month for winter steelhead fishing on the Rogue River by a sweet Monday float on Fish Hack’s home waters. Driftboat home water:/Hack knows every rock out there./Hit ‘em at leat once. You remember Haiku Monday … Fish Hack bangs out a [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Fish. Cougar. Souvenir.

Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where Fish Hack finally surfaces after a semi-decadent looooong weekend in that American parthenon of virtue: Las Vegas. Nothing like Vegas denizens to make morally bankrupt Hacks to feel superior to someone. Anyone. Vegas, therefore, is the sole inspiration of these-here three words that are Thursday. Fish. Cougar. Souvenir. Fish [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Pressure. Crapping. Shows.

Sitting within the hermetically sealed Fish Wrap while windy hell is breaking loose all over Medford and snows shroud Northern California puts a decidedly weathered take on Three Word Thursday. Pressure. Crapping. Shows. Ask any baller or deadline columnist and pressure is what you make of it. Ignore it mentally, and it does go away. [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Non-Holidays, Vegas and “Broke Back Cowboys”

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack asks the rhetorical question … if a tree falls in the Fish Wrap today, will anyone be there to hear it? Answer: EVERYONE. Fish Wrappers only get off on a few major Christian holidays and Thanksgiving. Wrap don’t recognize/Holidays deemed by Congress./Must be just for them. You [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Job Security, Quad-Fectras and Native Love

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is practicing addition at the Fish Wrap by subtraction. Often the best thing Fish Hack can do for his fellow hacks is not show up. It’s a career path that works well only during a hiring freeze. And it sounds like a good Monday Moanin’ plan. Hiring [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Peace. Sizzle. Paranoia.

A thoroughly pleasant yet completely unproductive drift along the middle Rogue River near Galice on Saturday provides the backdrop and inspiration for today’s three words. Peace. Sizzle. Paranoia. Towing my driftboat past the Hog Creek boat ramp early Saturday revealed that this first fishing trip of the new year was going to be long on the float [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Steelhead, Chocolate Water and Gene Wilder

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is trying to usher in the New Year by killing something more than just time. Dirty Rogue water./Can’t catch steelhead when water/Looks like a latte. You remember Haiku Monday. Fish Hack busts a few non-rhymes in Japanese poetry fashion. Look it up, dudes. If you haven’t figured out [...]

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