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Tag Archives: king salmon
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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Return of the Kings
I was goin’ down, down, down to the flatlands, headed north, to check on a favorite tributary for king salmon and the browns that follow. No, my destination wasn’t Oak Orchard Creek or the Salmon River– not on Columbus Day … Continue reading
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Tagged brown trout, chinook salmon, ethics, fishing New York, fly-fishing, holidays, illegal snagging, king salmon, Lake Ontario tribs, spawn, Woolly Buggers
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Portrait of the Chinook as an Old Man
I saw the king salmon shiver into the lower pool and come to rest. He was 30 feet away, with deep water and variant current speeds between us. The hunter’s challenge came to the fore, even though I knew that … Continue reading
Kings’ End
I went north to check on Lake Ontario tribs, expecting the worst. The flow at Oak Orchard Creek would be good, of course, but packed with anglers; the other tribs would be hardly wet for all our lack of rain. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinook spawn, king salmon, Lake Ontario tribs, salmon fishing, salmon flies
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