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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Native Uprisings
With the long holiday weekend and commencement of a new summer season, city folks were up in the mountains at their streamside camps, and some of them were swimming, sunbathing, while the little ones were buzzing around the yards and … Continue reading
A Fine Kettle of Trout
I didn’t heed the weather forecast; there’d been blue skies for days; the new morning sky was blue when I departed for one of my favorite trout streams, Kettle Creek, in northern Pennsylvania, and everything would be fine. When I … Continue reading
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Tagged brook trout streams, Coffin Fly, fishing in the rain, Green Drake mayflies, Kettle Creek, Oleona
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Ghost Water
Most of the smaller streams in this rivertop region once had native brook trout in them. Relatively few of those streams that held trout are a home for them today. Bootleg Hollow Creek, the stream that flows by my house and whose … Continue reading
Bobolink Fields Forever
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see… [J. Lennon]. It was an overcast afternoon and I wanted to do something different. I wanted to open my eyes a little wider than accustomed recently on the trout stream. Rather than … Continue reading
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Tagged bass & bluegills, bobolinks, Chesapeake watershed, hydrofracking, pond fishing, sound & silence, William Blake
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The Slate Run Odyssey, Part 7
After checking in at the Slate Run Tackle Shop I headed for the next piece of water to be covered on my journey up the run. I’d go as far as possible today beginning with a point above the Manor Falls. … Continue reading
Where Rivers are Born
I visited a jump-across feeder stream that flows into a creek near home. There’s a hole in that stream, a splashy pool measuring about five feet wide and three feet long. A month ago I saw the flash of a … Continue reading
Rock Creek Satori
The Zen Buddhist term satori means “insight” or “enlightenment.” I know it’s dangerous to apply the term to fly fishing experiences because, as everybody knows, fishing is a recreational activity and not typically a spiritual event. Leave it to a … Continue reading
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Tagged big back yard, brook trout, Genesee, Greenwood Hill, home waters, native vs. stocked trout, Rock Creek, Rock Run, satori, Susquehanna
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One Day on the Pecos
In a couple of months I hope to revisit northern New Mexico. Four years ago I enjoyed a fishing camp-out on the headwaters of the Pecos River in the southern Rocky Mountains. Beautiful country, wild and scenic. Last summer I … Continue reading
Way Back in the Hollow
Until recently the cold nights kept the mountain streams chilly even at midday. On Sunday, a Pennsylvania brook that I finally got to fish was registering 47 degrees at noon. The sky was bright; the wind was kicking up– not the … Continue reading
Rivertop Rambles 