Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the FlyAddicts Blog, 9 Months of Winter.

I spent most of this fall getting over betrayal from the ex, sucking at school, drinking entirely too much and quite frankly doing nothing productive. I caught one salmon and a dolly all fall, but I managed to build a rod, tie a few flies and come up with some dreams for the the future that require nothing from anybody but me. I started realizing that I was defined by fishing and every lesson I could learn about life could be gleaned from my lessons fishing. All of this came to late as the trout were under ice and the salmon were rotting by the time I needed the river. Finally I was able to get back to the cold part of Alaska, the part that is all ice and very little water. Went to a hot springs deep in the woods, soaked in a tub with the air temp -25 and the water 110° I saw old friends, I spent time with family, it all was good, but I still wasn’t happy.Click Here to Read the Full Post

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