The Prepper Broadcasting Network - THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Lost Art of Angling w/ IC

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

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Oh, absolutely. The ability of almost every working American to access more credit than they should have been able to. masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. That's not tenable. Is there all the time to eliminate? We've been time a long time ago. Let's put aside terrorism. Let's talk only about our own homegrown animals that are patrolling America right now.

So it goes down to the simplest thing. Be prepared. Be vigil. 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 chat folks for showing up each and every we're here in the rising chat tonight pepperbroadcasting.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'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 25% of what you can get out of I Am Liberty Live if you're not in the chat room. It's just my warning. I try to put it out there each and every show And yeah Either you heat it or you don't heat it It is what it is

It is what it is The day Though we are going to 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&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 that's the slimmest cut of the news. The biggest story today for me was China halting purchase of U.S. treasuries. China's decided to either scale back or stop altogether buying U.S. 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 is 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 on my actually on my kitchen table I'm broadcasting from my kitchen tables

night. Let me just have a check. Made in China stamped right across Superman's butt. I've got a, what, about a 12-inch Superman doll here. Flat-topped. It's from Justice League action. It was a gift from Santa 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 75% 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 U.S. 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 have? Because we're always worried about the reserve currency of the American fee. Got, right? How long can we keep this thing afloat? Let me be honest. Let me speak honestly. How long can we keep the wool pulled over the world's eyes? By telling them that our dollar is worth something. Gray Fox, the chat has been malwareed.

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 imam? Another Imam now. Countless imams coming out and speaking hate, speaking death, speaking murder.

We have another imam coming out and calling for the death of Jews, essentially. We have an imam who has come out again with the same old rhetoric from the Quran 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 a Rasmussen poll comes out today, and 48% of the people who participated in that poll said that they would vote Oprah in for president. 38% 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... 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 7.6 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... 2018, a year for earthquakes in places that you have never seen earthquakes before. 7.6 magnitude earthquake, off the Caymans, outside of Cuba, right off the coast of Honduras. 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 100% sure that they're going to 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 and prayers to those who get the full brunt of them. Because I have to imagine, by the time 2018's over with, we're going to have some serious and frightening earthquake stories around the nation. my biggest prayer is that the roof doesn't blow off New England if the roof blows off New England

you just have to understand that it is and 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 call The caldera under Yellowstone. It's going to blow. The ash is going to flow east. And when it flows east, it's going to coat everything. And it may even coat the atmosphere in ash and the sun may not be able to get through and yada, 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 2018 is going to be a shaky year. It's going to be a shaky year. It's going to be a.

a seismic year. And I can't help but 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 outer space. I can't help but have my mind wander to the idea of what happens if half of Connecticut blows out into the atmosphere.

If a new Caldera 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, they were a terrible thing. 17 people dead. Can you imagine dying, buried in mud? Choking. No oxygen. What else?

HBO deal for investigative docs. Not interesting at all. Dead man snores to life in autopsy table. Good God. Good. 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. 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 pop-ups and moms and dads and everybody come on into America you don't have to work good news is you show up you don't have to work card you can go buy food with it

we'll get you home you don't really have to pay for and uh 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 a 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 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 what we've always done.

We head to the water and we seek out... Well, we are seeking fish, right? We're seeking fish in some degree, but... The truth of the matter is we're seeking a whole lot more. Be content to sea hath fish enough, said Thomas Fuller. My father 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 say 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 another level

of sitting than 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 we'll be casting worms and minnows from the bank in 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 death 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 quell that a little bit if you head to the river. You can quell that a little bit if you head to the creek. Jay Fergie in the chat room says she has to remind her four-year-old not to drink directly out of the pond. you got to buy a Sawyer Water Filter

you got to buy a Sawyer water filter I uh I wrote a I actually wrote a guest post for a client of mine for the Preptingjournal.com and I wound up winning like a $50 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 $50, $50 lousy dollars, right? With $50, I upgraded the bugout bag like you wouldn't believe. I don't want to tell you too much about it because I'm going to post a big article about it on IAMlibertyshow.com. Pardon me while I imbibe on the maker's mark. But yeah, I won that $50 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 $50, 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 Axis. Don't ask me why. I just like them. And for the longest time, I said to myself, I need to buy some linseed 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 do it. I need to do it. I need to buy it. It's an $8 purchase. It's an $8 purchase. I sat down and I said to myself, I haven't put this $8 aside by 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 $30, $40, $50, $60 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 really want that and you really 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. I mean, that's nothing new. That's nothing new.

But, uh, 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 tempura, pour a batter. I bread and fry that 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, used to 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, too. Super picky, right? But I can go bring a fish home, cut his head off in front of him, fillet it, You know, dig the stomach out and all that stuff. One of the things me and my father always did is we would always look, and 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? 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 in the intestines and we would see what they were eating what the trout were 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 going to 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's 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. God, the writing that he did on fishing is unbelievable. And I think it's something about the name. I think he gets sucked into 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 walt and 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 a great time. There's no getting around it. So we're going to take care of of some commercials.

And we'll be right back with more of the I'm 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 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 worst off of us all, we're living the life of a king. 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, formerly as might inspire the muse of Homer or Shakespeare. That's Henry David Thoreau. Probably, Henry David Thoreau probably one of the best of the best. in terms of outdoor

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 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 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 outdoorsman has a serious opinion when it comes to people talking about the environment and that's a hard pill for people to swallow

particularly on Twitter right well I've got questions tonight let's talk about questions tonight because I have a few and one of them has to do a social media the censorship on social media

is such right the censorship on social media is such John Boy Walden 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 writers. You know many times I've been called John Boy 2? 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 19s, in my 20s, sparse jobs that would show up that made sense. I'd applied to them. I'd get the job. I'd make $100 here or 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 did I think that I could actually say, yeah, I'm a writer. 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 guy 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 Gabriel Rossetti, reading Shakespeare, reading Dean Kuntz like a madman, and dreaming about this idea that what it would be like to be. 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. It 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 24, whatever I was when I had my son, 24, 25. So that makes her 27, right, 28 at most. Or nothing. We're just little kids. And I'm saying to myself, dude, you cannot, this cannot be how you do this, right? It's not fly by the seat of the pants anymore. It'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 prepperpodcast.com. And then I found prepperbroadcasting.com. Then I met 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 I Am 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 Fergie 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. girls before I met my wife and it was a nightmare. A lot of that 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 DUI 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 eight, 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 destroy it.

And I've been on a little hiatus from fishing also. The babies have kind of hurt my fishing. I'm not going to 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 100% right. I should have it tattooed on me somewhere.

Go Lady Liberty. She's an amazing woman. She's probably 75% 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 the fear that people face in all things in 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 do the rest of this show?

I'm not going off on any political tangents tonight. But what I am struggling 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 your worries. You know, we're wading fishermen. We are anglers. Anglers, I always looked at an angler, an angling. You know, there's fishing, which is getting a fish on the hook and reeling it in. People are considered fishermen when they drop big giant cages into the water and bring them up full of fish. your nets or whatever. To me, angling is different.

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 kids. 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 water.

Is the water warm? Is it cold? What's the situation? Is it clear? Clarity of water makes, I mean, just clarity of water. water alone gives you a hundred questions. That's a powerful one, Al. Al 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 a 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 blackbates. I'm going for dark colors. And if it comes down to nice clear water, then I'm going to probably play around a little bit and put 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. I do like to get out and spin also, just as much. Sometimes more, depending on the year. And I'll 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, who you can run into a mayfly hatch, something to that effect, where there's tons of bugs coming. off right we just have tons of bugs coming off trichos are these tiny little they almost look like gnats right and they and they when they hatch they hatch in the probably the tens of 20s of thousands and it's hard to 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 going to find a lot of action from giant smallmouth bass or dry and smallmouth bass or big trout well trout will sip trichos all day that's not true but the bait fish will move in on the trico hatch and the bait fish will bring the bigger fish so 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 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 20, 30 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 water 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?

I mean, we can go on a million directions with this. I don't want to go too heavy into the how-toes 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 sleeping. inducing. And I can't afford to induce sleep because I'll fall asleep and lay right into this blue snowball microphone I'm talking into. Flying Dutchman 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. 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

Pennsylvania 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 Downing Town 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 patriot says

that they take their gold pan on the streams for 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 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, what is it, seasons in the valley. This book came out, I mean, I wrote this book long before, it was at least five years before the real seasonal, local madness took over everywhere.

I wrote this book, and I said to myself, who is going to not fall in love with this book about the Brandywine Valley? It's filled with beautiful pictures. There's over 45 recipes in it. It's an amazing read, right? Oh, the Susquehanna, yeah. I never really fished the Susquehanna. You know what was big, the Schuylkill.

We did a lot of smallmouth fishing in the scoogle. But the historic Brandywine River and the Brandywine Valley inspired me so much. Like I said, when I was fishing, I'd go and I'd take pictures in the cornfields, and I take all these pictures, and I eventually turned them into a cookbook. And it's a good read, if anybody's interested. I wrote it when I was very young, super young. I was probably 19, 20 years old when I wrote this book.

And I farmed it out to people in my area. You know, there's like the greater brandy wine 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 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. 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 all. 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 that provided us with the types of foods that we like. These baked apples. these baked apple stuffed with the granola with grape bacon next to them. Look at these recipes

of the young man, the young Walton. And 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 Czech.

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. 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 going to see you and it's going to run or it's going to get so uncomfortable that it's not going to take anything you throw at it.

Right? I 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 going to 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. They look at me like this guy is out of his mind. He thinks these fish know that he's here. And I knew for a fact that they would know 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 blue herrings. Flying Dutchman says, 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 PA, were loaded. Yeah, that's the truth. The cricks 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's shadows the top of the water, right? 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. He's going to try to get me. You know, when your 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 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 in green 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 20 minutes from here that that's what it is. It's filled with 8-inch bass, just loaded with 8-inchers, 10-inchers. 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 swim bait. And I sneak around the pond and I do my very best. Let anyone know I'm there. I don't even want to scare a duck. 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 7, 6, 7 pound large mouth. 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've 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 at saying, look, it's open and day. We're going out for trail. We're going to have a good time. You know what we're going to do? We're going to do jigs with white maribou or white feathers on them. We're going to do white maribou jigs. We're going to put meal worms on those jigs and bobbers. Both of us being able to catch some of the biggest trout on flies with fly rods.

But dad taught me that it's not about that. It's not about this snobbish idea that I'm a fly fisherman and I tie my own flies. What I don't do is I don't pick up a spinning rod with a bull. barber 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 going to lie.

I got way deep into fishing and I lost that. And my kids brought it back to life in 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 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 them 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 read. We'll read a few quotes and we'll call the night. How about that? What are we got here? there's no taking trout without dry there's no taking trout with dry britches that's a good one there's one about oh 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 in 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 that 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 he is, I've got him.

Let's end the show on this one by Thoreau because it's one of the best of all. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that is not fished. they are after. One more time.

Henry David Thoreau, 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 I Am Liberty outro tonight. We're going to 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 Baltimore, the I'm Liberty Show. Thanks for tuning in.

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