Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Triple Divide (3)
“The season isn’t open yet, is it?” I explained to the landowner at the Genesee rivertop near Gold, PA that the extended fishing season for his stream lasted till the end of the month. It was okay to fish, but … Continue reading
The Triple Divide (2)
The day following my visit to the Allegheny River side of the big hill’s triple divide, I swung over the summit near Gold, PA and eased on down the Pine Creek headwaters. The southward flowing Pine (by some estimations the … Continue reading
The Triple Divide (1)
In an earlier post entitled “Three River Rise” (12/19/11) I gave an introduction to a special hill in north-central Pennsylvania. The hill near Gold, PA is the place where three rivers are born, where three major watersheds share a common … Continue reading
Brook Trout and Beaver Dams
Vandermark Creek is a trout stream feeding the upper Genesee River in western New York. I have fished the headwater section of the creek occasionally over a period of many years, particularly for native brook trout in the area of … Continue reading
Catwalk, Gila Trout, and Caves
During the severe southwestern drought in the summer of 2011, I had to change my plans to fly-fish northern New Mexico. Leighanne and I turned our heads away from the raging fires near Las Alamos and the threat to the … Continue reading
R.I.P., J.R.
John Rezelman died in Bath, New York on February 10, 2012. You may not have known John or ever heard of him, but if you can think of an elderly gentleman friendly to the small-scale farmer and the artist, one … Continue reading
The Great Harvest
“Consider what a vast crop is thus annually shed upon the earth. This, more than any mere grain or seed, is the great harvest of the year. This annual decay and death, this dying by inches, before the whole tree … Continue reading
Brookies at the Fracking Zone
I recently spent a couple afternoons looking for brook trout near the Triple Divide. To fish northern Pennsylvania in mid-winter is a rare event for me, but the weather has been warm and sadly bereft of snow. The triple watershed … Continue reading
