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Kirk Deeter

  • Climate Change

    Hurricane Helene—how you can help

    Hurricane Helene cut a path of immeasurable destruction—500 miles wide, more than the distance between Boston and Washington, D.C.—from the Great Bend region of Florida, through Georgia, into the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee, Virginia and beyond.  While we are still trying to grasp the tragic human toll and total scope of damage, it’s fair to assume…

  • Fishing

    The True Cast – Respect

    “Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.”

    How does one begin to explain “respect” in the context of a leisure pursuit—fly fishing—that largely revolves around sticking a sharp hook in an animal’s mouth, and then pulling it around by the face, only to release it and let it go, maybe having snapped a photo or two for posterity… or to make a…

  • Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

    The True Cast – Poise

    Even now, If I could earn any one word, it would still be “poise.”

    The tallest one-word compliment I ever got in my life came from a high school English teacher, Bill Schoff, who was tasked with providing one word to describe a student upon their graduation from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Mr. Schoff was a magnificent writer who contributed to The New Yorker and many other…

  • Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

    The True Cast – Patience

    They say “patience is a virtue” and I’ve never encountered any situation in this world that better fosters patience than fly fishing for trout. In many years of fly fishing, including both great successes and dismal failures, I have learned that the number one factor that separates a truly great angler from the rest of…