THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Lost Art of Angling w/ IC

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Be prepared, be visual. No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well governed angler, says Isaac Walton. Some however, many hundreds of years ago. Welcome into the I'm Liberty Show, folks. Glad to be with you on this hump day live as per usual, We've got a beautiful looking group in the chat room. Thank you so much, folks for showing up each and every We're here in the Rising Chat tonight Prepperbroadcasting dot Com. Come to the website, join the chat. If you're not in chat, you're missing out on a lot. What can I tell you? You're missing out on a whole hell of a lot if you don't come to the chat room. I mean, I I'd hate to call myself a conceited man, but I know I do a pretty good job of this stuff. But I'm telling you, even with that said, you're still missing at least twenty five percent of what you can get out of I am Liberty Live. If you're not in the chatroom, it's just my warning. I try to put it out there each and every show, and yeah, either heat it or you don't heat it. It is what it is. It is what it is. The day though we are gonna focus mostly on fishing today, the day has been a day. It's crunch time in Congress for warrantless spying. They're looking the expiration of the statute that allows our government to listen in on phone calls of foreigners. And that's where you usually hear the end. That's usually where you hear it end. Right, The government has the ability to listen to phone calls of foreigners through at and T, through Google, through media providers. What you don't often hear is the fact that those foreigners are usually talking to Americans. So by default, the statute allows for exactly what we know the government's been up to for a very long time, which is spying on the American people. And there's a lot of people who don't like that. Now that statue is set to expire, and we'll see what's going on, what's going to happen going to happen with that. But the slimmest cut of the news, the biggest story today for me was China halting purchase of US treasuries. China's decided to either scale back or stop altogether buying US treasuries. And I want you to understand it's not a big story. It's not a big story because it's going to be the end of America if they don't buy our debt up. Because it's like I've told you before, they need us. China needs us right this old old conversation, it's old old talk, not something I really want to get into. China needs us, They need us to survive, they need someone to buy exactly what's next to me right now, And what's next to me on my desk or actually on my kitchen table. I'm broadcasting from my kitchen table tonight. Let me just have a check made in China stamped right across Superman's But I've got a what about a twelve inch super Man doll here, flat topped? It's from Justice League Action. It was a it was a gift from Sanna to one of my sons. And he's sitting here on the table looking at me with his flowing red cape. And I know he was put together in China, as was maybe seventy five percent of the other things on my kitchen table. Who knows. That's not what bothers me about it. What bothers me about China making the decision to halt or slow down the purchase of US treasuries is what effect it can have on the markets, what effect it can have on our country, what effect it can have across the world on the American dollar? Right? What effect will it happen? Because we're always worried about the reserve currency of the American fiat? Right, how long can we keep this thing afloat? How let me be on, let me speak honestly, how long can we keep the wool pulled over the world it's eyes by telling them that our dollar's worth something. In great Fox, the chat is has been malwared, so you are in a new chat. But it's fine, everything's good. This is just the beginning. Islam on track to be the second largest religion in the USA right on. Not a big deal, you know, hallelujah. But how about the e mom another EMM now countless e moms coming out and speaking hate, speaking death, speaking murder. We have another emam coming out and calling for the death of Jews. Essentially, we have an e mom who has come out again with the same old rhetoric from the Qoran. Now, oh Muslim, oh Muslim, there's a Jew behind me, kill him. I mean, this is it's the slow boil. It's the slow boil that you guys have to understand. We're in it. We're in the slow simmer that gets to a rapid boil before you notice it. And of course, the country is awash and in awe at the fact that lovely Oprah Winfrey decided that she may run for president, even though she doesn't want to run for president, even though she thinks that she might run for president, but she doesn't want to. But she will, but she won't so eras musem Pole comes out today and forty eight percent of the people who participated in that bowl said that they would vote Oprah in for president. Thirty eight percent said they would approve of Trump. This is why I want no more president. You guys think I'm joking when I tell you that the presidential race is like a four year expedition that divides the nation. It's already happening as soon as the candidates are announced. It's a wedge in the net. Don't put me down that path. Don't put me down that path. And I'm not tooting my own horn, but I'm making you aware of the fact that a seven point six magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Central America today. Another earthquake. Again. We did the story about the slowing rotation of the Earth and the fact that it's going to make twenty eighteen a year for earthquakes in places that you have never seen earthquakes before. Seven point six magnitude earthquake off the Caymans outside of Cuba, right off the coast of Honduras. Uh. It's a terrible thing. It's a terrifying thing because it's real. You know, there's a lot of things that you talk about that are speculation on shows like these, a lot of things that you talk about and you're not one hundred percent sure they're gonna come true. But I can tell you right now, the scientists got this thing. They've got this thing pegged down, they've got it figured out. It's what's going on. We're going to see more and more of these and you know, my thoughts in prayers to those who get the full brunt of them, because I have to imagine by the time twenty eighteen's over with, we're gonna have some serious and frightening earthquake stories around the nation. My biggest prayer is that they the roof doesn't blow off New England. If the roof blows off New England, you just have to understand that it is an end. It's about as near a collapse scenario as you can imagine, and it's one that we wouldn't even see coming. Most people wouldn't even see it coming, right because for a long time we've been talking about the caldera, the Caldera under Yellowstone. It's gonna blow the ash is gonna flow east, and when it flows east, it's gonna coat everything, and it may even coat the atmosphere and ash and the sun may not be able to get through, and YadA, YadA, YadA. Well, now we have this bubbling mass of magma that's rising underneath New England, right rising under New England. And then we have that coupled with this idea that twenty eighteen is gonna be a shaky year. It's gonna be a seismic year. And I can't help being a prepper. And long before I was a prepper, long before I ever knew it was a prepper was I was always into the end. I was always into the doom and the gloom, and the rockets and the nuclear bombs and the meteors from out of space. I can't help but have my mind wander to the idea of what happened if half of Connecticut blows out into the atmosphere, if a new call there is born in New England. You have to think about these things because it's scary. It's a scary thing to think about. Right, you blow the top off of a place like Connecticut, it affects Manhattan. God only knows you could see tidal waves in Manhattan. It's one of those scary situations that you only see in a movie. But I do like something about all of this, and that is the idea that you know, we're on a planet that changes. It's not just because Twitter says it's changing. It changes. What else do we have? What else can I terrify you with? Before I get to the punchline? The mud slides there were a terrible thing. Seventeen people dead. Can you imagine dying buried in mud? Choking noxigen? What else? HBO deal for investigative docs? Not interesting at all? Dead man snores to life in aught on autopsy table. God, good God. So when things get dire, right, and I haven't even talked about DACA yet, I don't even want to get on the subject of illegal immigrants or immigration into the nation whatsoever, because I have a lot of skin in that game, all right. I have two sons, I have a niece, I have friends with children that I love. The DACA thing is a terrifying situation because of chain migration and the fact that people can bring all of their family over along with them. Right, chain immigration, lovely, Let's keep the families together. We need aunts and uncles and mummums and pupp ups and moms and dads and everybody. Come on into America. You don't have to work. What news is you show up, you don't have to work. A card you can go buy food with it. We'll get your home you don't really have to pay for. And you know, Lady Liberty and myself will sit here carrying the weight of the world on our backs, just like you folks do out there listening, and we'll pay the taxes to fund the chain migration that comes from DACA being approved. It's lovely, It's a lovely thing to think about, right. So when it all comes crashing down, as it often does when you read the news too much, or sometimes it just comes in that type of a wave, it all comes together. You know. I can read three stories and I can find links to them, all three of them, and it really starts to make you nervous and scared. But what do you do when it gets overwhelming? What do you do when it gets to the point where you can't take it anymore? You know, it seems like it seems like people have a vice, one vice or another. What I do and what generations of Walton's have done. We head to the creek. We head to the creek. That's it. We head to the water for salvation. You don't understand, you know, it's it's what we've always done. We head to the water and we seek out. Well, we are seeking fish, right, we're seeking fish. It's in some degree, but the truth of the matter is we're seeking a whole lot more. Be content to see haw fish enough, said Thomas. Fuller gave me a book over the holiday break, and it's called The Fisherman's Guide to Life, Nine Timeless Principles based on lessons of fishing, and it is one of the most wonderful little books to read. It is difficult to talk to people who are not particularly interested in the value of a river. How many people out there fished their lives away like I have? Like, how many people out there had a point in their life. You know, there's fishing and then there's maniac level fishing. And my father and I we were experts in maniac level fishing. I always I always say it's that it's that kind of crazy fishing where you stop before work, you stop after work. You know, every rock in the stream that you weighed. It's a whole nother level of sitting then, you know, sitting on the pond bank and casting worms. No, nothing wrong with that. When my kids are little, my little Jacob, the littlest one, will be casting worms and minnows from the bank at a pond this summer, this spring, and he'll learn, just like his brother learned, that he's predisposed. Right, there's alcoholism in my family. There's definite degenerate behavior that runs in my blood for generations, generations of provable degeneracy in my lineage. And what my father found out is you can you can quell that a little bit if you head to the river. Yeah, you can quell that a little bit if you head to the creek. Jay Fergie and the chatroom says she has to remind her four year old not to drink directly out of the pond. You gotta buy a Sawyer water filter. You gotta buyer a Sawyer water filter. I wrote a I actually wrote a guest post for a client of mine for the Prepping journal dot com, and I wound up winning like a fifty dollars gift card for the post that I wrote. And I went on a shopping spree. I'm going to write an article about it. But I went on a prepper shopping spree, and with fifty dollars, fifty lousy dollars, right, with fifty dollars, I upgraded the bug out bag like you wouldn't believe. I don't want to tell you too much about it because I'm gonna post a big article about it on imlibertyshow dot com. Pardon me while I in vibe on the maker's mark. But yeah, I won that fifty dollars Amazon gift card and I got some stuff that I've been wanting to get for a long time. Can I tell you something about that fifty dollars too? By the way, eating out at restaurants steals your life. I came to this conclusion during that shopping spree. I'm just going to give you one example. For the longest time, about two years ago, I fell in love with axes. Don't ask me why, I just like them. And for the longest time, I said to myself, I need to buy some linse seed oil so I can coat my axe handles so that they last. Longest time, it's been in the back of my mind. I need to do this. I need to do it. I need to buy it. I need to do it. I need to buy It's an eight dollar purchase. It's an eight dollar purchase. I sat down, I said to myself, I haven't put this eight dollars aside to buy this linseed oil to take care of the tools that take care of me. But how many times have I gone out and eat spent thirty dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, sixty dollars on dinner, lunch. You know, if you go a day where you go buy breakfast, you go buy lunch, you go buy dinner, that's a serious investment. I mean you can make a serious difference in your life if you really go into how much money you're spending just to go out and eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a family of four. Serious money. It's serious money. And at the end of the day, when you think about the things that you actually want, you say to yourself, man, I really want that, and you realize it's in Hamburgers. You had the money, but it's in hamburgers, and it's in pancakes, and it's in whatever. Eating out is devastating. If you're trying to get after something financially. It really is. And that's old news, and that's nothing new. That's nothing new. But I'm having a good time tonight. Do you guys mind, Do you guys mind me having a good time? Al Prepping says, even fast food places are expensive. Time to go fishing, no doubt, no doubt. I bring them James River catfish home. Sometimes I get the corn meal out, I get a little flour. I get a little corn starch, which you don't know is you put corn starch in your breading and it's like mm, it's like something new. You put the corn starch in your breading and it's how you mimic a tempora poor batter I bread and Friday catfish. My son goes absolutely crazy, my oldest son. This is what I love about life. You never can guess anything in life. My oldest son, who is one of the most picky eaters. All of a sudden you justt eat everything. But now all of a sudden, he's super picky. Right. He wants grilled chicken, and he wants raw vegetables. That's what he likes, and he likes pasta to super picky, right, But I can go bring a fish home, cut his head off in front of him, filay it, you know, dig this stomach out and all that stuff. One of the things me and my father always did is we would always look and this is this is maniac level fishing. That's what I'm telling you about maniac. You know, there's fishing, there's like angling, and angling is sort of like the romanticized level of fishing, and then there's total maniac fishing. Right. We would my father and I would always dig the stomachs out of the trout and open them. And we would cut open the little stomach and we would look into the intestines and we would see what they were eating with the trout or eating. And sometimes we would pull bees out of there. Sometimes we would pull nymphs out of there, and we would say to ourselves, Okay, the trout in this stream are eating bees, so we're gonna tie some bee imitations up for next weekend. We went out every weekend, every Saturday, every Sunday, one of the two sometimes both were out waiting in the water fly rods, having some of the greatest times of our entire lives. But anyway, same kid who doesn't want to eat anything. We'll eat a dirty bottom feeding catfish, sliced up, fried up. He loves it. But that's what it is. It because he's a Walton. There's something in the name, the Walton name. You know, you look back. One of the greatest and most notable fishermen of all time, Isaac Walton, one of gott he The writing that he did on fishing is unbelievable. And I think it's something about the name. I think he gets sucked in to it. I think it's sort of like a It's an illness in the same way that you know perverts say that, like sexual addiction is an illness. I think it's the same way. If you're a Walton, you already you already have it. You have the illness. It's sewn into you. You have to get out in the water. You have to catch fish. So when we get back, we're going to talk more about fish and fishing and angling and why more people don't do it because it is well, it is a great American tradition and it is It is a great time, there's no getting around it. So we're going to take care of some commercials and we'll be right back with more of the Iem, Liberty show after this, God, it's a gift? Is it a gift? Or what I mean? Really, even if you're listening to this and you're in a bad way, you're in a bad time in your life, it's a gift. It is such a gift what we have. That's why we're crazy. That's why Americans are rebellious. That's why Americans are loud. That's why Americans are violent. We are we are all that. That's why we have tempers. That's why we have proclivities that we're embarrassed about. That's why we have temptations. Because we're living a king's life, even the most worse off of us all we're living the life of a king. Yeah, you go back and read about kings and see what they had, and you can hardly argue the fact. You can hardly argue the fact I have experienced this is a quote. Now, I have experienced such simple joy in the trivial matters of fishing and sport formally as might inspire the muse of Homer or Shakespeare. That's Henry David Thureau, probably Henry David Thereau, probably one of the best of the best in terms of outdoors writing. Some of the most iconic and the most powerful quotes come from that man. I mean, he's the same guy who said something along the lines of nature is the tonic of the human, or something to that effect. I don't know, I don't know what exactly, but that's essentially what it was. Nature is the tonic of a human. That guy had it wrapped up. That guy had it wrapped up. That fishing is a It's a critical part of not just enjoying life, but uh, coming back from the darkness. It also puts you out there. That's what I like about it most growing up. You know, it gave me the ability to be out in the world, not in the business world, not in the city world, but out in the actual natural world and have an opinion on that type of thing. You know, you have a you get an opinion on that type of thing, and that changes stuff. You know, that changes the way you can address people on certain issues. You know, any any conservationist, any outdoorsment has a serious opinion when it comes to people talking about the environment. And that's a hard pill for people to swallows, particularly on Twitter. Right, I've got questions tonight. Let's talk about questions tonight, because I have a few, and one of them has to do with social media. The censorship on social media is such, right, that the censorship on social media is such John Boy Walton was a writer? Are you kidding me? That's hilarious? Grumpy old mechanic throws this in the chat room. He says, well, it just occurred to me that both John Boy Walton and James Walton are writer. Do you how many times I've been called John Boy two? That is so hilarious, That is so hilarious. Let me tell you something. I wrote a story when I was in second grade and it won an award. Right, I'm sure it wasn't a good story, but it won an award. And I wrote lots of stuff growing up. But I was always very honest with myself, you know, about this thing, this life. And there were times when I made money on freelance writing earlier in my life, when in my nineteens and my twenties, sparse jobs that would show up that made sense, I'd apply to them, I'd get the job, I'd make a hundred bucks here there. Never in a million years did I think that I could have a blog where I write posts that make money. Never in a million years that I think that I could actually say, yeah, I'm a writer, Like I write books and I write for clients. I'm a writer. That's what I do. That's how I make my living. To a guide like me, why most kids were growing up on the football team or playing with their friends and stuff like that. I was reading Dante Gabor Rosetti readingspeare reading Dean Koons like a madman and dreaming about this idea that, Eh, what it would be like to be able to say that one day I'm a writer. Yeah. I don't bring it up to boast. I bring it up for this reason. This show, this path that you guys have been walking with me, has allowed me to be a writer for a living, make a living. This whole prepping endeavor that I fell into because of a hurricane that came through and rattled me as a young man, young father, young husband, right and shook me to the core. It opened my eyes and I said to myself, you know what, I'm a complete failure. I looked at my wife. I'm twenty four whatever I was when I had my son, twenty four to twenty five, so that makes her twenty seven, right, twenty eight at most or nothing or just little kids. And I'm saying to myself, dude, can not this cannot be how you do this right. It's not fly by the seat of the pants anymore. Let's not get by on the wavy hair and the smile, you know what I mean. You have to figure out how to be a dad, how to be a husband. And then I found Prepping, and then I found Prepper podcast dot com, and then I found Prepper Broadcasting dot com. Then I'm at g Man and that's brought me to this point. And all the people that come here, right, all the people that come to this podcast every night. While you don't make me money directly, you guys are all part of my career. Everything that you've done. Everyone who's ever told anyone about the Iem Liberty Show, anyone who's ever told anyone about the fact that the host is a writer and this and that, it's all part of it. It's all part of it, you know what I mean. Jay Fergus says, you got yourself an older gal. Listen, it's the only way to fly. I want to talk about fishing, but if you want to talk about women, we can do that too. It's the only way to fly, in my opinion. I dated younger girls before I met my wife, and it was a nightmare. A lot of I had to do with the fact that I had very few rules growing up. I was basically allowed to do everything I wanted or anything I wanted rather as long as it didn't equal a child. As long as it didn't equal a duy or a child, I pretty much had free range. So it was really tough for me to hang out with these girls who had to be in by nine, you know. So I started moving up the rungs looking for the older women who were ready to hang out. But whatever, I'm here to talk about fish, Okay. Fish is one of my whether you know it, and I don't talk about it a whole lot because it's one of those things that you don't want to you don't want to destroy it. And I've been on a little hiatus from fishing. Also, the babies have kind of hurt my fishing. I'm not gonna lie. I mean, nothing's better than taking my kids out to go fishing. But before kids, I was the type of guy maybe fishing twice a week, you know what I mean. Jay Fergie, You're one hundred percent right. I should have it tattooed on me somewhere. Go Lady Liberty. She's an amazing woman. She's probably seventy five percent of the reason I'm here doing this right now. G Man's munching fish sticks up there in the rocky mountains wherever you're at, so sparse, Gray Hackle says, the trout do not rise in the cemetery. Listen, this is a good one Northern Idaho. The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you're still alive. The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you're still able. You know what I love about this book is that, yes, that's a fishing quote, but it's much more than a fishing quote, right, It's much more than that you better do your fishing while you're still able. That has a lot to do with with people, the fear that people face in all things of life. I really want to take up this, but I'm scared to do it. I really want to do this, but I'm afraid I won't be good at it. All those doubts that you have about what you want to do. Are about yourself, sparse gray Hackle. He's the man, he's got it. You better do your fishing while you're able, because the trout do not rise in the cemetery. So how do we how do we do the rest of the show. I'm not going off on any political tangents tonight, but what I am strung uggling on a little bit is do we go into the practicality of fishing? Do we talk about technique? Right? Because I can talk about fishing technique for the rest of the show, no problem. Do we traverse sort of the spiritual effects that it can have. My father always told me. He always told me that the current washes away. You're worries. You know, we're waiting fishermen. We are anglers. Anglers. I always looked at an angler and angling. You know, there's fishing, which is getting a fish on the hook and reeling it in right people go. People are considered fishermen when they drop big giant cages into the water and bring them up full of fish or nets or whatever. To me, angling is different, right. Angling is an art. Angling is getting out into the water, boots in the water, feet in the water, watching the water, sneaking. It's almost like hunting, but not as hard. Literally immersing yourself into the wild, right, literally immersing yourself into the wild and studying the landscape and studying the conditions around you, studying the water itself, and saying, okay, what is it all telling me? That's one of the most fun things about fishing for me. For me, it's going out on the water, and it takes years and years to get to this point. But you get out to the water and you look at the water to start and you feel the word is the water warm? Is it? You know? Is it cold? What's the situation? Is it clear? Clarity of water makes I mean just already of water alone gives you one hundred questions. That's a power for one now, ol preparing says and I don't know if you stole it, but it's a good one. It says the outdoors God's indirect conversation with man. You hit that one on the head, no doubt about it. But when you get to the fishing hole, the things that I look for, right, the color and the staining in the water. What do we have going on with the conditions of the water? Is it fast? Is it high? Is it muddy? Right? Is what's going on with the water, because that's going to dictate what I use. If I have stained water, then I'm going for black baits. I'm going for dark, dark colors, you know. And if it comes down to nice clear water, then I'm going to probably play around a little bit and put some some more wild stuff on there. What else? What else? Then you look for me, I look off and I look in the sky next, because I'm a fly fisherman, so I'm always paying attention to what's flying around as well, even when i'm spin fishing, because I don't fly fish exclusively, right, I do like to get out and spin also just as much, sometimes more depending on the year, And I look to see what's happening in the sky because sometimes you can run into what's called a trico hatch, or you can run into a white fly hatch. We can run into a it may fly hatch, something with that effect, where there's tons of bugs coming off, right, We just have tons of bugs coming off. Tricos are these tiny little they almost look like gnats, right, and they when they hatch, they hatch in the probably the tens of twenties of thousands, and it's hard to be hard to miss them, you know. But if you see a trico hatch going on, you know what's happening. What's happening in the water level is the little fish are going insane. The bait fish are going crazy. It's a feast. You know. You're not gonna find a lot of action from giant bass or drying smallmouth bass or big trout. Well trout will sip tricos all day, that's not true. But the baitfish will move in on the tricho hatch, and the bait fish will bring the bigger fish. So these these things on the river, they all tell you something, you know, is it cloudy out? What's the sun doing? What's the wind like? For me when I first get to the creek, it's a giant puzzle. Every time. It's a giant, real life, beautiful puzzle. It's a code. It's like a code that I'm there to crack. Even though I've been to the spot a million times. You know, my little spot right down in the James River. I go to it probably twenty thirty times a year. The ponds I visit probably a little less. But you walk up on a piece of water like that, a body of wear like that, and you say to yourself, come on, man, how different can it be? You know you were just here last weekend. But the truth of the matter is it's totally different, totally different. What else? What else do I have on the weekend? Going a million directions with this? I don't want to go too heavy into the how two's of it, because, to be honest with you, I'm not a big fan of a how to podcast. I think it's a little boring. I think it's a little sleep inducing. And I can afford to and do sleep because I'll fall asleep and lay right into this blue snowball microphone I'm talking into. Flying Dustman says he prefers moving water. You and me, both you and me both fishing moving water for little Here's what I think. If you can fish moving water, you learn a lot more about fishing, about controlling your line, about snags, about jigging. You're a better fisherman if you spend time in moving water. There's no denying that. There's no doubt about that. Right. One of the reasons that I have the success that I have fishing is because I fished all of my life. The vast majority of my life I fished in water that was never more than three feet deep. You know, the little pennsylvani in your creeks that I fished, They never went above my waist. I mean, there were a few spots in the Brandywine River that I would fish in Downingtown that were above my waist, you know. But other than that, nothing, you know, really nothing, And that's a big deal. Because you learn about you learn about a lot of things. One of the things you learn about is spooking fish. You develop sort of, this is what you develop. Domestic Patriots says that they take their gold pan on the streams when the fish isn't biting. Nice. That's a great option. You can't do that on the East coast here. You definitely don't want to pan for gold around here. The Flying Dutchman grew up in the mountains of north central PA. Well, yeah, pretty close by. Man. I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania fishing the Brandywine River. The Brandywine River and me, we go way back, we go, way back. The Brandywine River so captivated me right and the valley itself that I wrote an entire cookbook about it. I mean an entire cookbook, probably about I don't know how many pages it is. But when I was a chef and I was in my well, Just's Seasons in the Valley, this book came out. I mean, I wrote this book long before it was at least at least five years before the real seasonal local madness took over everywhere. I wrote this book, and I said to myself, who is gonna not fall in love with this book about the Brandywine Valley. It's filled with beautiful pictures. There's over forty five recipes in it. It's an amazing read. Right. Oh, the Susquehannah. Yeah, I never really fished the Susquehanna. You know, it was big with the skookl We did a lot of small mouthfishing in the schoogl But the historic Brandywine River in the Brandywine Valley inspired me so much. Like I said, when I was fishing, I'd go and I'd take pictures in the corn fields and I'd take all these pictures and I eventually turned them into I turned them into a cookbook. And it's a good read. If anybody did interest it. I wrote it when I was very young, super young. I was probably nineteen twenty years old when I wrote this book, and I've fought out the people in my area. You know, there's like the Greater Brandywine Publishers and that type of thing, and it blew my mind. Nobody wanted it. Nobody wanted it. It was an amazing book. It is an amazing book. It's a beautiful read. I don't own one. My parents have it. The only copy out there that's hard copy. I think I only sell it on Kindle now, but the only copy out there is Kindle. The hard copy is uh, it's impossible to come by. And it has great quotes in it too. Listen to this one by William Allingham. This is the crazy thing about writing books is you write a book and when you're writing it, you're giving everything. You're giving everything to that book. And eventually that book goes away and you don't look at it for a long time, and then you come back to it, you read it and you go, oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, this was me, this was me giving it my awe. Listen to this quote from William Allingham about autumn right. Because the book is broken up in four seasons. It says now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. It's a beautiful quote. Look at this picture of the cornfields Wolf's fresh Market. I also highlighted four for every season. I also highlighted a purveyor, you know, that provided us with the types of foods that we liked. These baked apples, These baked apple stuffed with the granola, with grape bacon necks to them. Look at these recipes of the young Man, the Young Walton. Then the cover, the cover looks insane. The inside cover of the book was actually created by an artist that I worked at a pretzel bakery with. I have a piece of her art in my bedroom still to this day. Her name was Petra. She was from the Check. She was from the Check, and she was so crazy about yoga that it actually infected me, you know. And she's one of the reasons I really got into yoga to begin with. But what the hell were we talking about? Fishing? Fishing the Brandywine River. But you bring up a good point in that fish the fishing of shallow rivers, because you learn a skill that most people think is insane, especially those who only fish deep water. And that's the skill of sneaking up on fish and also sight fishing. Right, so you get to the point where you understand that fish are not as dumb as everyone thinks. Fish will see you. Right, if you happen upon a fish, it's gonna see you, and it's gonna run, or it's gonna get so uncomfortable that it's not gonna take anything you throw at it. Right, eye fish streams that were so shallow that the fish couldn't get away, and they would do this sort of dance the trout where they would just kind of run in circles, and you could look at them, and anyone who looked at this fish would know exactly what it is. Right, he's anxious, he's nervous, he's scared. This is the movements of some kind of creature that they're terrified. They know there's a fisherman here, they know he's gonna throw their hook at him, and he's scared. And you learned that early on. And I remember coming to Virginia and telling people about that. I would just in green I would stay close to the banks. I would sneak up on holes quietly. Sometimes I would tell people to be quiet. And I remember people looking at me as though I were insane, right, They look at me like this guy is out of his mind. He thinks he's fish know that he's here. And I knew for a fact that they would know if whether or not I was there, if I was too loud, or if I was too you know, moved too fast. The fish see that, and you only need to look to the to the blue herrings. Flying Dutchman says, when I was young, there were hardly any fish in the river too too much pollution. But the streams and creeks, and he calls them cricks because that's what we call them in pau were loaded. Yeah, that's the truth. Yeah, the criks were loaded, no doubt about it. I grew up catching fish out of Chester Creek all my life, Ridley Creek, killing small mouth, killing large mouth or not large mouth, rather killing trout, stock trout primarily. But I remember that, I remember people looking at me assuming that the fish were just idiots, like there were imbeciles. There was no survival instinct in a fish whatsoever. When you don't watch fish, you have no idea what a fish is. If you're fishing someplace that's too deep, and you can't watch a fish if you can't watch a fish. When a bird shadows the top of the water, right and I've sat back and watched fish for a half hour at a time, you know, and a bird flies over and it shadows the water, and those fish scatter. Those fish go crazy because they know what that shadow means. They don't necessarily know what you are. It's not like the fish goes, oh, yeah, that's a fisherman and he's going to try to get me. You know, when you shot, when you're silhouette hits the water, the fish go, I don't know what it is. It could be a human, it could be a heron, it could be a animal. They don't know what it is. It could be a raccoon, and that's it. There's problems then. So my father always taught me that that's what you do. You know, that's what you do. You approach a stream ingreen, you stay close to bushes, you stay tight to the bank. You make casts that don't line fish, or in other words, you don't want your fly line to land on top of fish. And that's how you catch big fish. You can make mistakes and catch small fish and have a good time. There's nothing wrong with that, right. I have a pond that's about twenty minutes from here, that that's what it is. It's filled with eight inch bass, just loaded with eight inches ten inches. And I take my kids there and we catch eight inch bass all day and we have so much fun. And then there are mornings when I leave the house before the sun's up and I put on a five inch shwim bait and I sneak around the pond and I do my very best nutt and let anyone know I'm there. I don't even want to scare a duck, right, I don't even want a duck to go out into the middle of the pond scared like. And that's when I hook giant bass. That's when you grab them seven six seven pound largemouth. You know, that's what it takes. It takes that kind of dedication, And that's the struggle for a maniac. When you're a maniac fisherman, you got to make sure that you have those times with your kids when you also just sit back and cast bobbers and minnows. My father was always excellent at that. It's almost a measure of a man's ego. Really, when you think about it, right, it's the measure of a man's ego when you are fishing and you cannot control yourself and you have to get the biggest fish in the lake. My father was always excellent as saying, look, it's opening day, We're going out for trout. We're going to have a good time. You know what we're gonna do. We're gonna do jigs with white maraboo or white feathers on them. We're gonna do white maraboo jigs. We're gonna put mealworms on those jigs and bobbers, both of us being able to catch, you know, some of the biggest trout on flies with fly rods. But Dad taught me that it's not about that, right, It's not about this snobbish idea that I'm a fly fisherman and I tie my own flies, and what I don't do is I don't pick up a spinning rod with a bobber and cast live bait into a hole. No, we just had a good time, and I lost that for a little while. I'm not gonna lie. I got way deep into fishing and I lost that, and my kids brought it back to life and me, my kids brought it back because I realized it's my time to get them hooked. The time has come for me to get them addicted, just like I am. And now and now it's their burden to carry because I get Carter out there with minnows in the springtime and we catch bass, and we catch crappies, and he has a ball and he wants to bring him home and lop their heads off and eat him on a sandwich. What else? What else? We don't have much time, but this was a fun show. Let's do some reading. Let's do some we'll read a few quotes and we'll call the night. How about that? What do we got here? There's no taking trout without dry there's no taking trout with dry breeches. That's a good one. There's one about ah here It is sparse gray hackle. Again, so true of fishing. If you've ever caught a big fish, you've been in this situation. There's a final moment of your yielding patience, which in angling so often makes the difference between fish and no fish. That is such a powerful one because it's so true. You know that moment when you feel me and my father have always called it one more cast, that moment when you feel like the day's over, there's no time left, and you take that one final cast and you realize there is I've got them. Let's end a show on this one by th Row, because it's one of the best of all. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it's not fish they are after one more time, Henry David Threau. Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. That sums up the whole experience. That sums up the whole of what it is we do out there on the river, out there on the creek, whatever it is we do, You're not getting any im Liberty outtro tonight. We're gonna go right to the Prepper broadcasting outro because, to be honest with you, I just had a good time. I've had a good time with you guys, and now I'm looking for the Prepper broadcasting outro and I can't find it. It's been a great night, folks. I'll see you next week. It's James Bought with the I'm Liberty Show. Thanks for tuning in. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. See our hosts, show schedules, and archive programs and more at prepper broadcasting dot com. Thanks for listening.