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Tag Archives: Eno
By This River(top)
In a period of time with more than the usual rainfall, when the streams and rivers have been running high and off-color, the fishing is limited and I look more to the unsung lives and places of the rivertops. … Continue reading
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Tagged by this river, Emily Dickenson, Eno, frog, music, nature, ObamaCare, poetry, rivers, rivertops, same sex marriage, stepping aside, uncommon, unsung lives
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A Small Stream Double-Haul
I saw a muscle car with a message on the back that read, “Hang On, I Feel Like Taking a Chance!” I felt like taking a chance, myself… not with driving, but with a double-haul of small stream fishing. After … Continue reading
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Tagged becalmed, Cedar Run Experience, chance, double-haul, dry fly, Eno, fracking, Grouse & Flash, Part 11, satisfaction, small stream fishing, Whitman
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The North Country Spiders
The wet fly patterns known as “North Country Spiders” came to prominence in England around 1885 with the publication of Yorkshire Trout Flies written by T. E. Pritt. But some of the patterns had been around for a long while … Continue reading
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Tagged Eno, fly-fishing history, North Country Spiders, soft hackles, Spider and I, Vernal Equinox, wet flies
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Autumn Journal: October 30
The sensation was a little spooky. I was fishing with friends on northern New York’s Salmon River, and no one was catching anything, not the hardware angler on the bank, nor the guys out wading with a fly rod, nor the numerous client/guide … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn Journal, Eno, Hurricane Sandy, morning call, On Land, Salmon River, steelhead
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