Living Off the Land
Jim Stone, the Pickleville Philosopher
One of my most favorite things to do is to tie flies. It’s pretty neat to make them homemade, and
then use them to catch a nice fish to put on your dinner table. When I started my first business I loved to
travel the western United States. It was
so much fun. Me and the dogs would
basically go float all the big name We had no money; it was all depending on
selling some flies to the guides and outfitters.
I’d take a pair of women’s pantyhose and stretch them around a homemade frame work made from sticks we found on the river bank, then I’d put the makeshift net downstream. At that
point we dogs would turn over the rocks and soil from the bottom of the river, it
would expose all the aquatic life from the river, and then we’d put the bugs
and aquatic life in a ten gallon fish tank and see all the different stages of
a bug’s life. Fish are just like us they like their dinner fresh, because it
tastes the best to them. So the tied flies should look fresh.
Us dogs would catch a bunch of fish so everyone could see
than we’d go set up a cheap card table at the boat launch where everyone took their
boat out and we’d sell flies to hopefully make enough money to put gas in the
truck and food in our bellies and to move on to another river to explore it and
live another awesome experience and make memories together in our short lifetime.
I really miss the wild rivers and living off the land. Me and the dogs are really wanting to leave
this chaotic world behind and go float and fish some wild rivers again. Big
smiles from all of us to all of you.
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