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Read the Water

from No Tellum River by Jonathan Lee Pickens

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    Full color CD with lyrics to all the songs. Album originally released on cassette tape in 1992. Digital remastered and released in 2020.

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For me, as a flyfishing reminder

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Read The Water

It’s a clear little stream
Tumblin’ cold from above the tree line
Calmin’ down as it reaches the meadow
And there through the aspen it winds….
And it was me getting’ all fired up
Strippin’ line and working out a fly
Figurin’ anywhere I dropped it would be perfect
But a little voice broke through, like a ripple from a rise….
Chorus
You’ve got to read the water
Before you cast your fly
You’ve got to read the water
Try and figure out where they lie
Well it’s just like a lot of things in life I confess
The odds just get better with an educated guess
You’ve got to read the water
Before you cast your fly

So I cooled my heels for just a minute
I kept my shadow off the water while I spied
I saw some ice-age boulders by the far bank
With a finny-looking shadow by their side….
So I false cast and eased out some fly line
I laid an Evening Dun above the last rise
Now that shadow just sipped that fly for dinner
My reel is singin’ out and I’m feelin’ so wise….
Chorus
I try to learn every time I go fishing
And I figured out a thing or two that day
Fools may rush in where angels fear to tread
But they don’t catch many fish that way….
Every stream that you fish is a mystery
All the clues within the reach of your line
Solutions lie there in pools, bends, and riffles
You’ve just got to slow it down, and take a little time….

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from No Tellum River, released February 16, 2021

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