Wild and Beautiful
Recently, I collaborated with Joe Klementovich, Jay Riley and Sean Platt to create a Zine dedicated to our love for wild fish. This first issue is about brown trout, which are my personal favorite. Below you’ll find a short piece I wrote for it.
We have a lot of quality brown trout water in New Hampshire, and I spend every moment I can guiding and fishing them. However, like many precious natural resources, they need our protection and support. They won’t be around forever if we don’t care for them.
This piece is dedicated to the wild fish I love so much, and why they’re important. I’m not a poet by any means, but sometimes I like to get creative. Enjoy!
Wild and Beautiful
Wild is important.
Wild is beauty,
is perseverance,
is adaptation,
is anger,
is strength.
In the face of habitat destruction, climate change, angling pressure, and natural predation wild
hangs on and fights.
Wild shakes.
It dives.
It tangles.
It bends.
It leaps.
In the face of habitat destruction, climate change, angling pressure, and natural predation wild
hangs on by a thread.
Wild isn’t paid for,
isn’t modified by science,
isn’t brought by a truck,
isn’t in a concrete tank,
isn’t fed pellets,
isn’t harmful.
In the face of habitat destruction, climate change, angling pressure, and natural predation wild is
still important.
If you’re interested in going with me to chase some of these wild fish, don’t hesitate to reach out. Whether wading or floating, NH offers numerous opportunities to fly fish for them depending on the season.
Tight Lines,
Dominic
