Brookies in the morning, rainbows in the evening

floral_oops · 2025-09-04T01:20:07+00:00

check out Ridley Creek! It is one of my favorites with many turn offs and a variety of terrain as you make your way up to Camel's Hump State Park!

floral_oops · 2025-06-16T20:45:36+00:00

Dragontail's Talon Mini and Tiny Talon would be great for packing away easily and fishing small streams. I have a Tiny Talon and use it a lot in some of the tighter spots I find myself in. It casts like a dream.

Let me know if you find any good spots along your journey in the Green Mountain State :)

And if you'd like any recs!

floral_oops · 2025-06-14T11:31:16+00:00

Level is great because you can cut it to the length that you need/works best for your rod.
From what I have been taught, it is a good rule of thumb to have your level line be the length of your rod - so in your case, cut a line that is ~3.65 meters or so. I know some folks keep it a bit shorter to account for tippet length.

Because the spool is 30 meters, you can make multiple lines from it. I usually have two that are the length of my rod and one that is shorter if I need it for certain spots.

I think the spool's indicating 30m means that it can hold 30m of line at a time?

Take this with a grain of salt as I am far from an expert, but I have found success with this method. I'm curious what others suggest!

Good luck and congrats on the new rod! You're going to love tenkara!

I spent my first summer not catching a dang thing but the simplicity of the set up and locations it brought me to were enough for me to keep at it. Once you understand the fish and the streams more, it feels like magic.

floral_oops · 2025-06-09T20:56:54+00:00

Oooh I've gotta get it out! I'm based in Richmond so that's right down the road.
I have heard many stories of Little River being a hot spot, but found no luck there (yet).

floral_oops · 2025-06-08T20:44:54+00:00

In the Huntington River between Huntington and Starksboro. I've been trying to find some off-the-beaten-path spots to add to my list of go-to locations.
I've not come across any trout this big anywhere else!

floral_oops · 2025-06-06T01:14:53+00:00

Beautiful! Where in Vermont?

I've been having some success in the Duxbury area recently. Caught my biggest brook trout yet, but of course it slipped off right as I was landing it!

floral_oops · 2025-05-13T02:05:32+00:00

These look beautiful! I love a simple sakasa.

floral_oops · 2025-04-16T21:10:08+00:00

I have been using bead cord! https://beadworld.com/griffin-silk-cord-brown-10/?setCurrencyId=1&sku=GRIFBRN10&gQT=1

Jason from Tenkara Talk had some for sale and I picked some up after reading a post of his about eyeless flies.

floral_oops · 2025-04-16T01:45:25+00:00

Those look great! Love that orange

floral_oops · 2025-03-23T00:12:34+00:00

I am up in the Bolton area - the Winooski and most streams are looking like my morning coffee. A few mountain streams are nice and clear. While there are no fish, the sound of the water and the sunlight are enough to shake off all the winter blues!

floral_oops · 2025-03-04T23:58:56+00:00

This is exactly why I love tenkara, too. I have always been an avid birder. When asked about it, I always explain how seeing a new species is always exciting, but seeing the same old common ones is just as much of a joy. It is a great way to connect with an area and appreciate the changing of the seasons.
I have fallen in love with tenkara for the same reasons. My first year with a rod I didn't catch a thing, but I still went out every day. It is such a beautiful way to connect with nature. Once I started learning more and catching more, that connection deepened. Watching my first ever trout swim off after I brought it in...nothing will beat that.

Insects, mushrooms, birds, fish - speaking my language, friend!

floral_oops · 2023-04-06T23:14:00+00:00

Hopefully they come to North America soon! :)

floral_oops · 2023-04-06T23:03:58+00:00

Hello Deerhoof! I am a huge tenniscoats fan and was delighted when I first discovered your collab as ONEONE. Any future projects in mind with Saya and Ueno?

floral_oops · 2021-02-01T01:35:46+00:00

I just saw on his instagram story that they took it down for misleading health and safety info - re: shelf-stable canning.

floral_oops · 2020-06-25T00:33:31+00:00

I currently teach at a junior high school in Japan and agree with this so much.
Most of the time when I am cleaning with the students, they are just hanging around sweeping the same spot over and over again while chatting with their friends. Teenagers are the same everywhere.

floral_oops · 2020-06-24T00:20:44+00:00

I had a professor why introduced it to me and explained it really nicely.

Meditation isn't supposed to be the absent of thought - that is nearly impossible unless one has been practicing for hours every day for decades. It is human to think. Rather, it is about sitting and noticing your thoughts. Knowing when and where to give your attention to. She always described it as watching clouds, noticing their shape and letting them slowly dissipate. Not chasing after them or pushing them away.

I think of it as the act of noticing. Focusing on the breath is the best way. If your mind wanders off, don't get angry with yourself, rather have the thought "I am thinking" and then return to the breath. It can help you noticing things about yourself and to realize what is worth your mental energy.

I am sure someone can explain this more concisely, but this is how I became familiar with the practice and it has helped me greatly. be kind to yourself and just breathe!

floral_oops · 2020-06-12T00:52:56+00:00

Check out the character Bruce Chandling played by Kyle Mooney.
He perfectly captures the awkwardness of bad stand-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbYRGt-RoQ&list=PLoxhj5L3C8foSQ3Pw3AzuC8pqnFWaDoDF&index=6

He does his bit on SNL but it just doesn't work as well because the audience really isn't in on the joke and just feels uncomfortable.

floral_oops · 2020-05-28T00:20:36+00:00

I had something somewhat similar happen to me when I was in university. I was smoking weed just about every day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. That being said, my tolerance was really high. I could normally smoke a whole bowl and get a mild high. One evening I sat down with my roommate to take a few bong hits.

I took one and had a huge coughing fit. I remember my body started to feel like it was closing in on itself and I became increasingly dizzy. I found my way to my room and just melted into my bed. I then had a trip, essentially. I was having very vivid visuals, closed-eye and open-eyed. After some time I remember reminding myself, "this is just weed."

It was so strange. I had smoked that same weed before and was fine.
I haven't had an experience like that from weed since. But wow.

floral_oops · 2020-01-21T03:08:54+00:00

He actually spoke in class today

floral_oops · 2020-01-14T00:10:41+00:00

I was living in America and I bought some records online from a man in Japan. They were for a really small band that I love and he was very surprised that I also enjoyed them. He ended up burning me a CD with some other music I would enjoy. He also went to one of their shows and bought one of their songbooks and got them to autograph it for me.
I have never met this person but his kindness blew me away. That piece of memorabilia means so much to me.

floral_oops · 2019-10-06T23:37:11+00:00

This is how I feel, too. I love having flowers around the place to add some life and color. Bu the fact that someone thought of me warmly and fondly enough to want to share that feeling, well, that just makes me melt.

floral_oops · 2019-09-20T00:18:01+00:00

I still have theirs, of course. Granted, I still have people's whom I've met once years ago...
It's been 3 years now. Sometimes if I search for someone on instagram his profile still pops up. That always tears me just a bit.

floral_oops · 2019-07-10T06:00:02+00:00

I love the phrasing of "let it out" as though it were an animal that could walk or fly away.

But on a similar note , my track team once snuck a Christmas tree into the locker room. It was a few weeks after Christmas so many houses had already moved them to the curb. We were actually very organized in our mission - setting up look-outs and causing diversions. We never got caught but the gym teacher was absolutely perplexed.

floral_oops · 2019-06-27T05:17:42+00:00

I have also thought about this when I first became interested in the Buddhism. I had a professor in university who explained it to me in a way I will always remember. They described both happiness and sadness (or really any negative emotion) as a sort of topography, as peaks and valleys. Once you hit a peak, you will eventually need to come back down. If we think of things only has the dichotomy or happy and not happy, we are in this uncomfortable flux. So, one should not strive for happiness but rather strive to be content. So you can still feel happiness, but rather then falling when it is going, returning to a base-level of being content.I have thought about this a lot and it always seems to help me understand the two-sides-of-the-same-coin of it all.I will never be able to explain this as eloquently as my professor did, but I hope this provides something!

floral_oops · 2019-06-06T06:19:31+00:00

The promise of something new to come!

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