Where Everybody Knows Your Name
There’s only one place to go after a really swanky dinner….your local dive bar. And last Friday was no exception. I stepped out to a wonderful new restaurant called Olivia’s where I enjoyed delicious pan-seared scallops and a fantastic celebration with some of my most favorite people in the world. Plus, all the while I could gaze out the window and across the street at the neon glow of my beloved Horseshoe Lounge.
Needless to say we had to pop over.
So there I was sipping on Lone Stars with my elbows propped on the the padded edge of the bar, when suddenly I heard someone call out, “Fly Fish Chick!” Now I was deeply engaged in a very serious tete-a-tete at that particular moment, so at first I brushed it off as my imagination. But then I heard it again, “Fly Fish Chick!”
I glanced toward the end of the bar and sure enough there were two guys nodding at us. It took me a nanosecond but then I recognized one of them as Pete, a super nice guy I met last winter through the Guadalupe River Lease Access program. I had purchased two of his guest passes for the river. Small world!! We all had a big laugh and proceeded to share beers & fishing stories.
The conversation drifted from fishing to music because as it turns out, Pete is a badass musician. He plays the mandolin in a hard-driving bluegrass band called The Meat Purveyors. Support your fellow dive-bar-beer-drinking fisherman and check them out. In the meantime I promise I will be back with more banter just as soon as I possibly can….
CHEERS.
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Hey- look at me –I get to be the first to post a “welcome back- where the hell you been?!”
Itchy Dog(Quote)
Tough when you have to rejoin the real world isn’t it! Kind of like a really, really bad case of jet lag.
OK-enough sympathy. Back to work. We want stories, we want pictures!
Harry(Quote)
Good to see your summer hasn’t changed your good taste in fine establishments and by the looks of it you’re seeing good people – especially I can tell by the support of the Rammies!
Meat without Feet(Quote)
Down at the Horseshoe Lounge
Hey Buddy have you got a light
Down at the Horseshoe Lounge
One more and I’ll be alright.
Dash(Quote)
Yeah…you were prbably sipping a ’57 St. Emilion in between gulps of blue points (this is a month with an “r”) in a Michelin four star, right across the street from the horse shoe lounge. After all, Texans don’t pay much creed to zoning, right?
I think it was Ed Zern that said “fishermen aren’t born liars…but they get over it.”.
Kentucky Jim(Quote)
What’s a tete-a-tete?
Launcher(Quote)
Launcher…
that’s the prelude to the horizontal rumble.
French for “I’m not running very fast to make sure you can catch me”
Monty Montana(Quote)
What up FFC? I hope you are busy making some cupcakes for these fellas. They get awfully distressed when you go away for these extended stays!
Alabama flygirl(Quote)
I see.
Launcher(Quote)
Love the blog and some really great fishing photos. I just added you to my blog roll and will be back to check up.
Cheers
Fish Whisperer(Quote)
“Oh but I’ll be all right
as long as there’s light
from the neon moon.”
B&D
That is indeed a beckoning sign.
When the leaves are off the trees, I can see the glow from the Blue Sky Room’s sign from my dining room. To paraphrase Norman Maclean, “I am haunted by neon.”
SmellsLikeFish(Quote)
Yay! A woman’s fly fishing blog. I just started fishing (my husband’s teaching me) and I hardly ever see other gals on the river. Glad to have found you. You rule.
Emily Postal(Quote)
Just popped by to let you know that I enjoy your blog. Juggling a fishing obsession and a young’un is something I know all about
If you’re ever in the UK and want to see what all the chalkstream fuss is about drop me a line
malcolm
malcolm(Quote)
Ms. Hogwallop done R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
Wook(Quote)
Hey! I’m moving back to Texas…right now. We’re moving to El Paso. We’ll be settled in by the first of November.
Ken Morrow(Quote)
Wook-remember, she’s done this to us before.
She’s probably busy earning a living so she can pay her internet bill-after all, she did take the whole summer off!
Then again, maybe she has run off on us.
Harry(Quote)
Excuse my ignorance but I am not American, I have heard of Dive bars but have no idea waht they are? what makes them different from any other bar?
Alfred(Quote)
Hey Alfred,
A dive bar in the US is like the down and dirty bar like you see in the movies where it’s dark, not fancy…There is usually a pool table, couple of dart boards, and a bar. There may or may not be peanut shells on the floor too.
Imagine the smell of smoke in the air, guys in flannel shirts too…maybe a brawl here or there too!
Sharon
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sry i just know how to write my name in arabic
) anyway however my english not that good but i think i get the point. thanks
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Alexis(Quote)
I usually do not comment on blog posts but I found this quite interesting, so here goes. Thanks! Regards, P.
Antique Ring(Quote)
haha the one who is posting the comments
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One question…Are you for real or is this some personae you cooked up to get readers?
Jack(Quote)
real deal my friend. except for the blond wig facebook photo in the sidebar. well, it’s really me in New Orleans on Halloween. But I’m not a real blonde…..shhhhhh…..
CHEERS!
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