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Tag Archives: brook trout fishing
Brookie Joe’s Quick Pics
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Tagged Blue Ridge, brook trout fishing, Catoctin National Park, environment, fly-fishing, hiking, Maryland, nature, photography, poetry, Spring, Virginia, wildflowers
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High Water Weekend
The following are my Top 10 fly-fishing highlights for a four-day holiday weekend. They range far and wide through my fields of interest. Fishing, for sure, but also solitude and family fun, commitment to ideals as well as simple looning … Continue reading
Dry Flies, Waterfalls, and Trout
For several days over the past week we anticipated heavy rain and evening thunderstorms in the area, so after work I kept my fishing close to home. Falls Creek (not its real name) is found within a few miles of … Continue reading
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Tagged brook trout fishing, climate chaos, dry flies, Falls Creek, May fly-fishing, Phillipson rods, waterfalls
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A Stream Report
Last week, when the hot and humid weather finally broke, I set out to do another study of a favorite tributary in the upper Genesee River watershed. I decided to fly-fish all of its “miracle mile,” a stretch extending upstream … Continue reading
Wild Trout and Trillium Flowers
On Mother’s Day I crossed the creek and drove into the hills to see the one who’d brought me kicking and screaming into this world long ago. She lives alone now and requires daily care. It was my turn to … Continue reading
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Tagged brook trout fishing, mayflowers, Mother Earth, Mother's Day, native trout, natural symmetry, trilliums, wake-robin, wild trout
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Blue Ridge Brookies
It was a colorful day, a comfortable holiday, in central Virginia. My son and I drove out from a family gathering to have a look at brook trout territory in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We traveled from the city to the mountains on a westward road through … Continue reading
Brook Trout Basics
For some it was the first day of archery season in the woods of Pennsylvania, but for me it was a day for brook trout basics. I was on a favorite brookie water with the forest brightening on the slopes … Continue reading
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