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“A good day to die”

22. July 2010

The West Branch of the Delaware is one of those mystical rivers. Just wading in you feel instantly healed. Scratch that. Just gearing up near her shores breathing in that cold mist you are healed. Your brow begins to unfurl and a smile appears. That’s how powerful this river is. I’ve been fishing her for [...]

Trico: What you didn’t even know was there is now gone…

10. July 2010

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There is something intimate and unique about being on the water at first light. Not the published news paper time when the sun crests the horizon. I’m talking about standing in a stream ready to fish when that slow descent of “civil twilight” begins to mix with the darkness of night. When rays of sun [...]

Fishermans Paradise

5. February 2010

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It’s 9:25 AM now. I’m driving somewhere around the little Pennsylvania town of Bellfonte. My GPS device keeps telling me to make a left down a street that is clearly marked one way – the wrong way! Despite this fact I circle around twice and still make the turn only to have to veer off [...]

The Industrial Fly Fisherman

21. January 2010

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As I pulled into the lot M.H was all ready on his tailgate pulling on some old pair of rubber boot foot chest waders. The type of gear you’d expect to see a sanitation worker dressed in as they set out to maintain tanks at the local Waste Management Processing Facility. Looking at our surroundings [...]

Bradford Bows

1. January 2010

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Springville, NY. The first deep breath I take stepping out into the pre dawn light crystallizes every hair in my nose and immediately dries my eyes open. That’s when you know it’s cold. That’s when you know it’s time to go fishing. Crunching my way across glassy snow I find the car’s lock frozen solid. [...]

A better man for it

11. December 2009

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C omplicated winds made crossing hands across the small dissection of my urban back yard. Staring through the double pained door I watched high currents tickle at our sole Oak Tree while the struggling sounds of ascending steam triggered my coffee addiction. Heavy eyes fumble for half & half, eggs, and a bagel. Soon the [...]

Autumn winds & Wild Brown Trout

7. October 2009

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With Steelhead runs really starting to pick up on some local rivers I did the unthinkable: I went chasing 8” Wild Brown Trout in ankle deep water. I could almost hear anglers in passing cars yelling out: “You’re going the wrong way!” as I sped away from the coast. Fall is such a grand occurrence [...]

Feast or Famine

18. September 2009

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As the Fall 2009 Steelhead Season stutter steps toward our door we spend early mornings starving on the lower branches of our tributaries and then retreat to honey suckle summer upper branches to tango with little wild trout. Some men speak of “last outings” and “hanging up inland gear for the season.” I love those [...]

For over 100 years…

14. September 2009

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There is an often untold story in the fly fishing conservation world. Rightly so, we spend a great deal of time highlighting potential industrial and political hazards to our local river ecosystems, but often we become solely focused on such material. I guess “good news” just really doesn’t sell. But the neat fact remains that [...]

Red, White, & Rainbows…

27. August 2009

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There is something majestic and true about catching a river born Rainbow Trout. They really only thrive when waters run clear, clean, and cold. Unlike the “everyman trout”, the staple of we low land people, the brown trout; they can not accommodate warm weather and pollution. They hold, often, in the choicest part of each [...]

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“A good day to die”

Trico: What you didn’t even know was there is now gone…

Fishermans Paradise

The Industrial Fly Fisherman

Bradford Bows

A better man for it

Autumn winds & Wild Brown Trout

Feast or Famine

For over 100 years…

Red, White, & Rainbows…

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