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Monthly Archives: October 2015
Fish Tails and Mayfly Wings
To prime myself for the start of a reading tour promoting Beautiful Like a Mayfly, I went fishing. No surprise there, right? It was a cold day with snowflurries and an air temperature never climbing out of the 30s. There was … Continue reading
The Hook-Up, and More
It always takes me awhile to re-adapt to lowland trout and salmon fishing, but once the first king salmon takes off with a fly in the lip, the blood begins to flow through every lazy muscle, and I can’t imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged beaver, Chinooks, connection, fishing, friendship, hook-up, hunting, king salmon, Lake Ontario fish, nature, October, porcupine, salmon, spawning, sumac, trout
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Columbus Was Here
Part 1: At the start of Columbus Day weekend I was fishing a couple of Cedar Mountain trout streams. At one point I was suiting up at a mountain crossroad when Columbus came roaring towards me on a motorcycle. He … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegany State Park, America, book readings, Caribbean, Cedar Run, Columbus, Columbus Day, discovery, fishing culture, fly-fishing, Genesee River, GPS, nature, photography, St. Croix, Thunder Rocks
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Beautiful Like…
Beautiful like an autumn brook trout rising from its low-water house to snatch a dry fly on the riffles… I was on the upper Kettle just before the big rains came, and it was good. Many native trout, survivors of the … Continue reading
Rivertop Rambles 