Month: April 2025
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Leather holster for a landing net
Read more…: Leather holster for a landing netA couple months ago my uncle made a beautiful tamo, or Japanese fish landing net, for me. And during my recent visit, I noticed that he and my cousin made leather belt holsters for their landing nets, so I resolved to make one for mine, too. Following their advice, I hit up the nearest Hobby…
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Week of April 21, 2025
Read more…: Week of April 21, 2025Cool photo I found this week: One of our neighbors put their house up for sale, and the listing included an aerial photo of our street. You can see our house and a great view of the town and the river. We feel very grateful to live here. Three big projects occupied my time this…
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Turning smaller tenkara line spools
Read more…: Turning smaller tenkara line spoolsI turned a new set of tenkara line spools earlier this week out of a piece of mimosa wood. From the last set of spools I turned, I gifted the smaller one and kept the larger two-tiered one. After using it for a couple months, I decided that I wanted a smaller, thinner one to…
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Week of April 14, 2025
Read more…: Week of April 14, 2025This week was spring break for most of NY, so this week was all about hanging with Charlie. Monday we traveled back from Georgia. Charlie was a great traveler, and to our surprise he slept for the whole plane ride. Tuesday Charlie and I puttered around the yard doing lots of small tasks. We repotted…
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Week of April 7, 2025
Read more…: Week of April 7, 2025At the beginning of this week, I helped with another trout release and macroinvertebrate sampling, which I wrote about here: I also finished an oak bowl on the lathe, which I wrote about here: Puttered around in the backyard and the workshop in the rain with Charlie. He checked on the radishes, organized his workbench,…
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Oak Fruit Bowl
Read more…: Oak Fruit BowlI turned a fruit bowl out of oak (from the same tree as the platters) as a gift for my grandfather for his 90th birthday. This was the first project where I got to use a speed reducer on the Shopsmith, so it took me some extra time to set it up and figure out…
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Trout Releases & Macroinvertebrate Sampling
Read more…: Trout Releases & Macroinvertebrate SamplingLast Thursday and today I volunteered with the Croton Watershed chapter of Trout Unlimited to assist with a trout release and macroinvertebrate sampling at Cross River as part of the Trout in the Classroom program. In the fall, the New York State Department of Conservation sends trout eggs to schools. The students watch them hatch,…
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Week of March 31, 2025
Read more…: Week of March 31, 2025On the first week of my sabbatical: The fishing was a bit slow. The water temp is still pretty cold in most places around here (mid 40s), so the trout are fairly sluggish. I did get to check out some new locations, and I landed three, hooked but lost four more, and had more strikes…