Tag Archives: small streams

Meeting the River Trout

Posted on December 12, 2023 by rivertoprambles

The break in December weather was like a holiday gift from the gods. The air temp rose to 53 degrees F., the river temp to 44. Although the sun hid behind the deep gray clouds, I stood in the northern … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, books, brown trout, entertainment, flyfishing, food, gifts, good luck, nature, photography, poetry, river trout, small streams, travel, winter fishing, writing | 18 Comments

Fall Brooks

Posted on October 3, 2023 by rivertoprambles

The turning, colorful season was an open invitation to spend a couple of days among the mountain streams of northern Pennsylvania. The male brook trout are in spawning hue, as beautiful as any wild fish can be, and readily accepted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, brook trout, fly-fishing, hiking, nature, poetry, small streams, wild trout, writing | 16 Comments

Autumn Poetry in Motion

Posted on September 27, 2023 by rivertoprambles

It’s a busy time on the rivertops as autumn starts to spice the water, land and air with coolness, longer nights and general decay. Birds become more active with migration urges, wildflowers thicken the high grassy fields and roadways, trout … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, brook trout, cardinal flower, glass fly rods, nature, poetry, small streams, trail cam, writing | 14 Comments

Quiet Silver Streams

Posted on May 19, 2021 by rivertoprambles

Following a full week of hiking, birding, and visiting such places as the Genesee River Trail (WAG Trail, NY), the Golden Eagle Trail (PA), and the coastal trails of Block Island (RI), it was good to return from these rewarding … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Block Island, fishing, hiking, Izaak Walton, May, northern PA, psychology, self education, small streams, study, The Compleat Angler, trout, writing | 14 Comments

Planted Near Running Water

Posted on June 11, 2020 by rivertoprambles

“Happy the man who does not read advertisements,/ does not listen to their radios/ does not believe their slogans. He will be a tree planted near running water.” — Ernesto Cardenal Often in times of social and political turmoil, I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, E. Cardenal, fisher pair, fly-fishing, freedom, gas leak, gifts, healing, imagination, nature, plantings, poetry, protest, small streams, turmoil, wildflowers | 24 Comments

Operation Perdigon

Posted on June 4, 2020 by rivertoprambles

I’d intended to fish the brook ever since a friend indicated that his son had looked for trout there years ago. Through my decades of digging into local history, especially with regard to native fish populations, I had never seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brook trout, exploration, fishing, friendship, headwaters, local life, nature, nymphing, Perdigons, preservation, small streams, writing | 11 Comments

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged creation, environment, fishing, fringe-dweller, Hendrickson, home water, nature, pandemic, poetry, rambles, scop, small streams, wild trout, writing | 10 Comments

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beer, brown trout, Covid-19, crisis, dreams, fishing, home water, nature, party, recycling, small streams, wild trout, writing | 29 Comments

Winter Spring

Posted on February 13, 2020 by rivertoprambles

Mid-February, and I track through the snow toward a big spring in the hills. I’d follow the deer prints but it’s easier to step inside the wheel ruts of an ATV. I read new promise in the strengthening light. Grouse … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aldo Leopold, community, environmental law, headwaters, nature, place, poetry, politics, preservation, prose, small streams, winter spring, writing | 22 Comments

Jumping the Back Fence

Posted on October 30, 2019 by rivertoprambles

Wild Boy Run was named for Lewis “Wild Boy” Stevens who settled on the Pennsylvania mountain stream in 1842. Born to alcoholic and abusive parents, Stevens “jumped the back fence” of his home (in New Jersey) at age eleven and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brook trout, fishing, hiking, history, jumping the fence, Lake Ontario tribs, Lewis Stevens, narrative, peace, Pennsylvania, poetry, Salmon River, small streams, war, Wild Boy Run | 18 Comments