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Tag Archives: trout fishing
The Rough Country
Whether we enjoy the notion or not, everyone who strives for well-being needs to stay in contact with the wild. Such contact is readily attained in sanctified places like our state and national parks, but we can’t always reach those … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple Tree Hollow, exploration, Gary Paul Nabhan, hiking, humanity, Life, nature, rough country, Slate Run, timber rattlesnake, trout fishing, wild
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The Weekend/ 5 Classical Elements
Earth: It all started Friday night as I drove home from my mother’s house. A fisher crossed the bottom of the gravel road– a dark super-cat-sized animal with a long bushy tail, a creature I’ve long suspected of living in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aether, Air, anti-fracking, bald eagles, deer hunt, Eagle Crest Winery, Earth, Fire, fisher, Hemlock Lake, nature's gift, The 4 Elements, the 5th Element, trout fishing, upper Allegheny River, Water
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Simply Trout Fishing
After a disappointing visit to a Finger Lakes tributary in search of larger brown trout and landlocked salmon, I returned home and got back to the basics of headwaters fishing. Yes, the weather was just as cold and damp and … Continue reading