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Tag Archives: Amish
Three Branches, Opening Day
Opening day for trout in northern Pennsylvania offered excellent weather and an opportunity to reacquaint myself with the headwaters. For 35 years I’ve fished three branches of the Genesee (the East, Middle, and West) on the April opener for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amish, bait, Bliss Perry, brook trout, fly fishing, Genesee headwaters, heron, nature, opening day, poetry, The Wild Trout, Time, worm fishing, writing
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Picket Pin
One of my older fishing pals told me that his favorite fly pattern for night angling on the home river was a Picket Pin. Another elder told me that he likes to cast the same time-honored pattern (first developed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Amish, Ben Franklin, brown trout, dry fly, fly-fishing, ground squirrels, Hendrickson, home water, nature, Picket Pin, solitude, writing
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