But the mergers are there, and trout know it. Sometimes these lanes are ten or twenty feet in length and easy to follow, and other times the merger is very short - just a foot or two - before it blends in with the neighboring seam or is overtaken by the next lane. Most often, merger seams are narrow strips, from just a few inches wide to twelve inches or better. Now find where the slow water meets the fast water, and treat those two strips of water as their own seams. Look for the three main seams: fast left, fast right and slow center. The merger seams behind every rock are easy to find. But only a small percentage of merger seams form bubbles, and the attentive angler finds merger seams behind literally every rock. The old adage that foam is home applies here, as merger seams certainly are the collecting point for those bubble lines. MergingĪnywhere faster water meets slower water is a merger point. And if I had to pick just one target area, day after day and season after season, I would surely choose the merger seams. These are the two merger seams, where each fast seam meets the slower part in the middle. But the most productive seams are more hidden, and many anglers seem to miss them altogether. And to the fisherman, those lanes are everything.ĭownstream of every rock are three obvious seams: the left seam, right seam and the slower seam in the middle. That structure offers protection, while the seams provide feeding lanes. Trout thrive in these places because rocks create structure and current seams. Unless the bottom is gravel or sand for long stretches, the composition of the riverbed is a series of boulders and stones scattered in various sizes. Bankside and midstream, big ones and small ones - rocks are everywhere. Songs about an anatomical universe are strange but easier to digest, and there is only so much breakup a human can handle.All good trout rivers are full of rocks. I am going to go out on a limb and say that many of her fans are relieved to hear it. And it seems that Bjork feels this, too in a message to her fans, she said she’s finished singing about her past. But the buy-out has given it more official dimension. You never have to see or speak to that person again.Įxcept, of course, Björk and Barney share a child, so that kind of clean split is gonna be harder. Still, if you’ve ever been through a breakup, particularly one in which physical spaces and possessions are purchased and shared, you know that, though the emotional recovery is the real son-of-a-bitch, the minute you get that final chair out of the old space, or exchange a last sum of cash, is somehow the instant real freedom is yours. Maybe she even did it online, never even looked at the man, as she clicked the return key and completed the transfer. In 2014, as separation rumors surfaced, Barney bought his own Fort Greene townhouse.Ĭompared to the gut-wrenching creative effort Björk put into her recovery, her payment to Barney in December-a little over $1.5 million-probably felt closer to administrative protocol. They were both successful artists, each undoubtedly rich beyond concern. Unlike many couples who separate over money, Björk and Barney’s breakup was due to, you know, emotions-or the lack thereof. But now she’s added a more official nail to that coffin: Last month, the Icelandic iconoclast bought out Barney’s share of the Brooklyn Height’s penthouse the couple purchased together in 2009, and that Björk has since retained. Suffice it to say, Björk put in the emotional work of getting over her split. But when I saw Björk at Carnegie Hall belt out her anguish over her final fucks with her husband, who (from her telling of it, anyway) indelicately shattered their covenant, I found the narrative so raw and specific and prolonged that I left feeling like Barney had just left me-or, at least, that I’d relived every prior breakup of my own, cramped into tiny stadium seating over the course of two hours. Did you listen to Björk’s Vulnicura? Better question: Were you able to listen to it, nine brutal songs that illuminate in painful detail the dissolution of her thirteen-year relationship with artist Matthew Barney? Most breakups are awful because they’re your own.
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