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Fishing Overnight on the Colorado
For a while now I’ve been fascinated with the stretch of the Colorado River downstream from Lady Bird Lake. At one point, my friend Peter Gabriel and I planned on taking a float trip down the river...
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Chicharron Preparados
I haven’t stopped exploring the menus of the fruit cup stands down on Riverside. One of the standard options on the non-fruit side of their menus is chicharrones preparados. Reading the name, I...
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How to Make Prickly Pear Sorbet
About mid-summer here in Austin, the prickly pear get ripe. They bloat purple in the punishing sun, sprouting with tantalizing juiciness from the middle of daunting thickets of thorns. I pass by a lot...
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Gizzards of Austin’s East Side
It had been a little while since I had visited the lunch counter at the back of the convenience store on Cedar Avenue and 14th Street. The ownership had changed, so they now offered more soul food and...
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Homemade Tamales
The great thing about tamales is that they’re the gift that keeps on giving. With a couple of dollars worth of low-grade pork, and pennies worth of spices, cornmeal and corn husks, you can make a pile...
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Behind a Big Box Store
The fishing team got a hot tip that if one were to go to the hinterlands of Austin, to the sprawling suburbs, that behind a certain big box store there was a rainwater runoff settling pond, and that...
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Fishing Bull Creek
Most people know Bull Creek as the Austin park that’s constantly getting closed to swimming because of dangerous levels of fecal bacteria. But for those of us with fly rods and a penchant for urban...
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Day Trips Fishing the Colorado River
When the weather’s right, the fishing team will head down to the old Colorado River for a little swimsuit fishing. Now that I’ve had some more experience with the Colorado, I would have to compare it...
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A Couple of Big Bass
I was biking through South Austin this evening and I noticed that some of the red buds had started to bloom already. As a fisherguy that of course made me think about a year ago, near the end of the...
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A microscope. Just because.
I just bought this microscope from Goodwill. It was only five bucks and promised to enlarge things as much as six hundred times. So far the only thing I know for sure is that q-tips may clean smudges,...
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The Foam Gaga Spider – Fly-tying recipe
Foam Gaga SpiderBy Matthew Bey on 10/10/2013The foam Gaga Spider takes all the delicious, buggy elements of sub-surface nymphs, and combines it with the fast and furious top-water action of a foam...
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Mysterious Fish From Texas Gulf Coast
This is a post which is open pandering for a fish identification. Over the weekend I was fishing off the Caldwell Pier in Port Aransas. It was about one in the morning and just a little after high...
View ArticleTesting the Facebook comments box
It’s come to this, my blog is now simply a sandbox for testing projects from work. The post Testing the Facebook comments box appeared first on Matthew Bey.
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After the power goes out…
…this is what I look like. The post After the power goes out… appeared first on Matthew Bey.
View ArticleAn Interview with My Grandfather
As my Grandfather approaches his 90th year, his writing career is kicking it up to the next level. Here’s an interview with him where he talks about his prior career and his writing process. The post...
View ArticleObligatory Hugo Endorsements Post
It’s only one day left to fill out ballots for Hugo nominations, those of us who are WorldConnners. Here’s some suggestions. These are basically just people I know, but you can be certain that they...
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Fishing Bull Creek
Most people know Bull Creek as the Austin park that’s constantly getting closed to swimming because of dangerous levels of fecal bacteria. But for those of us with fly rods and a penchant for urban...
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Day Trips Fishing the Colorado River
When the weather’s right, the fishing team will head down to the old Colorado River for a little swimsuit fishing. Now that I’ve had some more experience with the Colorado, I would have to compare it...
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A Couple of Big Bass
I was biking through South Austin this evening and I noticed that some of the red buds had started to bloom already. As a fisherguy that of course made me think about a year ago, near the end of the...
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A microscope. Just because.
I just bought this microscope from Goodwill. It was only five bucks and promised to enlarge things as much as six hundred times. So far the only thing I know for sure is that q-tips may clean smudges,...
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