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Picket Pin

Posted on May 1, 2020 by rivertoprambles

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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River SCOP Rambles

Posted on April 23, 2020 by rivertoprambles

Scop, you say? Well, my dictionary defines the word as a bard, or poet, of the Anglo-Saxon days in ancient England. I was drawn to the word and to the scop’s role in medieval time because of the pandemic and … Continue reading →

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The Wild Trout Throw a Party

Posted on April 15, 2020 by rivertoprambles

I woke up around 3:15 a.m. with several lines of silly thought reverberating in my head. For better or worse, these lines may have given impetus for this latest post. One of them was close to a throw-away: “We’ve got … Continue reading →

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The Home Stretch

Posted on June 29, 2019 by rivertoprambles

I was fishing the home stretch of a local river, a favorite section of the headwaters, a place where I could hang my fishing hat, or fly rod, on an aging log and feel as comfortable as a dog beside … Continue reading →

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Ghost Water

Posted on May 19, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Most of the smaller streams in this rivertop region once had native brook trout in them. Relatively few of those streams that held trout are a home for them today. Bootleg Hollow Creek, the stream that flows by my house and whose … Continue reading →

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