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Article: Trout Bums -- Self help? Turn off the TV and go fishing

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November 29, 2007
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Yesterday -- Sunday, Nov. 18, if you must know -- the weather was miserable, cold and raining, with a high of 38 degrees.

I did nothing.

I sat in the basement watching TV all day -- football, mostly, with some weird women's shows thrown in at halftime. Let me tell you, there is no "real" in "The Real Housewives of Orange County," and we'll let it go at that.

My Trout Bum buddy Chris called about noon and asked me to go fishing; I declined, as a delicious nap was looming in my immediate future. Returning to my chair (nap sled 2007), I started clicking through the channels, looking for the perfect white noise for napping. Football is too abrasive; no, you want just the right voice pitch. ...

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