Monthly Archives: July 2012

Tiny Fly, Big Hatch

Posted on July 31, 2012 by rivertoprambles

One of my fishing grounds for August mornings is a trout stream close to home. Upper Dyke Creek is the habitat and spawning place for native brook trout and wild brown trout where the morning water temperature registers in the … Continue reading →

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Bad Tourist, No Turquoise

Posted on July 25, 2012 by rivertoprambles

The road home had its first stop in my favorite U.S. city, Santa Fe. A place small enough to be intimate, large enough to have a depth of human history and a sense of cultural diversity. Plus, it doesn’t hurt to … Continue reading →

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How I Passed the Great San Juan

Posted on July 23, 2012 by rivertoprambles

I was ready to flyfish on the great San Juan River of New Mexico (as I did for several days in 2001) but passed on this opportunity because… 1/ The name of my blog is Rivertop Rambles rather than Tailwater Hawgs. 2/ The San … Continue reading →

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Up at Jack’s

Posted on July 22, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Monday morning. I’d been camped alone at Jack’s Creek Campground for the last two days. Thanks to recent media promotion of the upper Pecos River and the Santa Fe National Forest (assuring the public that the fire threat was gone … Continue reading →

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Rio Grande King

Posted on July 17, 2012 by rivertoprambles

The last thing I expected to see along a headwaters stream in the Pecos Wilderness was another angler. There were mobs of them on the main stem Pecos down below Terrero where the hatchery fish were dumped, but up here … Continue reading →

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Call of the Wild, Dog Canyon

Posted on July 13, 2012 by rivertoprambles

The route to Dog Canyon, south of Alamogordo, NM, took me past squatter huts and broken trailers, giving balance to my earlier views of rich adobe-style homes along the edge of desert cities. At 7 a.m., again a bit late for … Continue reading →

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Mountain, Bayou, Desert

Posted on July 10, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Mountain, bayou, desert… Passing through on the long road south and west, seeing what you can, the brief view, wishing sometimes you could stop the drive and really see, really touch and smell and taste… We had met up with … Continue reading →

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Fish Out of Water

Posted on July 6, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Leighanne and I drove southward into waves of record-breaking heat, 100 degrees plus high humidity, stopping in metropolitan D.C. to visit son Brent and his girlfriend Catherine at their Arlington apartment. On this first of our stops on the journey … Continue reading →

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Wanderings North and West

Posted on July 2, 2012 by rivertoprambles

With a walk up the North Ridge I could say goodbye to the green hills of home, farewell for a little while. It had been a hot day but the evening was fairly comfortable. The steep seasonal road took me … Continue reading →

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