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In reference to a thread by this title a week or so back….went over to the local stream yesterday(Weds) afternoon. Decent hatch of Grannoms, size 14 or 16, and a later hatch of pale green caddis in a size 16 or 18.  Streambred trout took wets or surface emerger types for a couple of us who were fly fishing amongst a few bait fishers. Every small hole seemed to hold a brown. Fish landed ranged from 7 to 13 inches. The locals claim no big hatch of Quill Gordons(the local spring mayfly hatch) yet, which is odd, as they generally precede the little green caddis. These guys I spoke with live on the creek and are as trustworthy as anglers can be<g. On other PA streams, I would expect some Blue Quills, Hendricksons and sometimes Black Quills.  All over the state, bright yellow craneflies are out in droves, and sometimes, the fish key on them exclusively. Use a sulfur in a pinch, about a size 16 or smaller.  Better still is a parachute style, with large, sparse hackle.                                                              Tom L

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Tom Littleton’s <Tulpehocken TR snipped On other PA streams, I would expect some Blue Quills, Hendricksons and sometimes Black Quills.  All over the state, bright yellow craneflies are out in droves, and sometimes, the fish key on them exclusively. Use a sulfur in a pinch, about a size 16 or smaller.  Better still is a parachute style, with large, sparse hackle.                                                              Tom L

Tom, I can confirm that the bright yellow craneflies are out in force in Central PA, yesterday and today. Fished the ‘newly’ public water (Espy Farm’s ~1.25 miles) on the Little Juniata River yesterday (Friday)… tan caddis and bright yellow craneflies between 9am-3pm.  The ‘Espy Farm" outfitter is charging $100 per person/day to fish, unguided, this small stretch ($295 guided).  It is NOW freely accessible if you enter the river either above/below their property and traverse upon the river bed during your travels in the Espy Farm area.   Spring Creek is in pretty good shape and fishing well – midges and bright yellow craneflies.  The Little Lehigh Creek’s regulars captured a Sulphur dun today (Saturday), an early hatch? take care Dave

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Dave,   Thanks for the update……Will you be going to Penn’s/Lil J area around Memorial Day??                              Tom

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Tom – Thanks.  On Thursday the locals on the Brodhead said the Hendricksons had been coming for a week and that the Quill Gordons had gone by.  No bugs flying in the rain that day. Glenn << In reference to a thread by this title a week or so back….went over to the local stream yesterday(Weds) afternoon. Decent hatch of Grannoms, size 14 or 16, and a later hatch of pale green caddis in a size 16 or 18.  Streambred trout took wets or surface emerger types for a couple of us who were fly fishing amongst a few bait fishers. Every small hole seemed to hold a brown. Fish landed ranged from 7 to 13 inches. The locals claim no big hatch of Quill Gordons(the local spring mayfly hatch) yet, which is odd, as they generallyprecede the little green caddis. These guys I spoke with live on the creek and are as trustworthy as anglers can be<g. On other PA streams, I would expect some Blue Quills, Hendricksons and sometimes Black Quills.  All over the state, bright yellow craneflies are out in droves, and sometimes, the fish key on them exclusively. Use a sulfur in a pinch, about a size 16 or smaller.  Better still is a parachute style, with large, sparse hackle.                                                              Tom L GKT

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Dave,   Thanks for the update……Will you be going to Penn’s/Lil J area around Memorial Day??                              Tom

Tom, I am planning on fishing Penns the weekend after Memorial Day.  Its a Green Drake thing.  Sort of like a fly fisherman’s Woodstock thingey. take care Dave

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Dave,   Thanks for the update……Will you be going to Penn’s/Lil J area around Memorial Day??                              Tom Tom, I am planning on fishing Penns the weekend after Memorial Day.  Its a Green Drake thing.  Sort of like a fly fisherman’s Woodstock thingey.

I’ve never had the chance to fish a heavy, large Mayfly hatch. I’ve read that the fish get pretty satiated after a couple days and are no longer feeding very heavilly on the Duns. Is this true? Willi

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I’ve never had the chance to fish a heavy, large Mayfly hatch. I’ve read that the fish get pretty satiated after a couple days and are no longer feeding very heavilly on the Duns. Is this true?

My experience has been just the opposite, that is, the first few days of the hatch will see sparse feeding on the surface, but as the hatch progresses, the fish will rise to the duns more freely. Yesterday, I fished a massive Hendrickson hatch on the Farmington river….a hatch that was actually too good because of the overwhelming number of naturals. The trout rose steadily for two hours, but few fish were caught during that period, most being taken at the beginning and end when fewer bugs were on the water. I wound up landing nine trout from  11 to 16 inches, but the only fish I caught at the hieght of the hatch were a few salmon smolts. As a point of reference, the Hendricksons started hatching on April 15, and the fish are still avidly feeding on them. George Adams "From the rockin’ of the cradle to the rollin’ of the hearse, the goin’ up was worth the comin’ down." ___Kris Kristofferson "The Pilgrim/Chapter 33"

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Willi writes: I’ve never had the chance to fish a heavy, large Mayfly hatch. I’ve read that the fish get pretty satiated after a couple days and are no longer feeding very heavilly on the Duns.

In my experience, the fish continue to take advantage of nutrients and thus, feed through a hatch to the end. They may tend to become wary of surface items due to angling pressure as a hatch goes on. Also, feeding on duns varies with air temps and humidity, with fish rising more readily to duns when they have difficulty getting off water surface. The drake hatch, as a specific example on Penn’s, tends to be great fishing on Duns and emergers for the first couple days in any area, with wary fish by the end(6th or 7th day) of the hatch. Many times, it proves easier to take fish during the Drake hatch with other surface items, like sulfurs, caddis and spinners of Grey Foxes and March Browns.                               Tom

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Hello all. Im just getting back into fishing, haveing not been able to go for a while. I live in Virginia, and just got back from Shenendoa National park fishing, but it was pretty poor. Im wondering if anyone has any info on Gunpowder Falls Trout streams in MD? Im thinking of trying there next week. Or any other good streams near the MD/VA area

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Michael,  I’m an avid fly fisherman in Maryland.  One of my favorite streams is in Thurmon, MD.  Just up route 15.  Big Hunting Creek is the name.  It’s a fly fishing catch and release area with some large trout.  I do really well with midges just under the surface.  Try fishing up from the ranger cabin. Some great water.  Bill  (two years ago I caught my largest trout. 36" rainbow up there)

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello all. Im just getting back into fishing, haveing not been able to go for a while. I live in Virginia, and just got back from Shenendoa National park fishing, but it was pretty poor. Im wondering if anyone has any info on Gunpowder Falls Trout streams in MD? Im thinking of trying there next week. Or any other good streams near the MD/VA area

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – what the hell is wrong with a goddamn normal fillet knife.  an electric lesson <G Another goddamned fillet knife purist ! Probably have a Bastard #2 bamboo fillet knife, eh ? ;{) You need to read the post to understand the context. Now doesn’t that crank you up – tim pulls the 5 second sound bight out of the context of another ng (doesn’t even reference the post or the author) and then compains one has to read the whole post to understand the context! A master of misrepresentation!

Ah, he’s just mad because he’s not getting the response he thought he would.  The whole thing has mutated into a fight about "picking on Texas."  :-) The futile strugglings of a desperate soul…can be fun to watch in the right context.       – Ken — "Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers."                                          -Anon

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After reading Tim quote in context on sci.bio.fisheries, a limitted discussion of what constitutes a natural fishery came up.  One person felt that there wasn’t such a thing because once we include man, it is no longer natural. Dave Fluir gave the following definition: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My own bent, and this is, of course, purely personal bias, is to think of a natural fishery, in the purest sense of that term, as the following:    The exploitation of a fish population sustained solely by natural reproduction with no deliberate attempt at the inflation of    carrying capacity through a) anthropogenic nutrient input or b) introduction of species not enzootic to the waterbody for the    express purpose of increasing fish production. Wow, what a mouthful, eh? Dave (should I put on asbestos, now?) Fluri North Bay, Ontario  Canada

Another person said that that included most of the fisheries in his state, however, the bodies of water are themselves artificial. What makes a natural fishery? What waters do you consider natural fisheries? Willi

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"buttload of small ones"? Careful with that Powlesland bait, Timmy ;^)

You’re right…appreciate the ‘heads-up’… ouch there’s another one… ouch..that’s one too… I worry about a man who thinks a dick in melted sidewalk salt is a homoerotic image. — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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[deleted] Now doesn’t that crank you up – tim pulls the 5 second sound bight out of the context of another ng (doesn’t even reference the post or the author) and then compains one has to read the whole post to understand the context! A master of misrepresentation!

You probably complain to Blockbuster that the previews aren’t full length versions either ! — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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I worry about a man who thinks a dick in melted sidewalk salt is a homoerotic image.

What about someone who ponders putting his there? <g — Charlie…

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Cruelty to animals.  The horse is dead stop beating the poor thing

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A great quote there this AM… "a good electric knife and filleting lesson would greatly assist fishery management " Your pal, — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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[deleted] Ah, he’s just mad because he’s not getting the response he thought he would.  The whole thing has mutated into a fight about "picking on Texas."  :-)

Quite the opposite my man.  Quite the opposite.  But of course, since you only look at the pictures (and in this case only read the subject line) I wouldn’t expect you to know. It was *PROVEN* that you reply without reading the posts earlier on in this thread Janek, you’re pretty much removed from any possibility of an intelligent debate AFAIC. That said, I am extremely tickled and very pleased with the sincere and intelligent followups I have seen to followup here in sci.bio.fisheries (Gee….sci.bio.fisheries…1 solid response based on science there would be worth 1000 based on emotion here) alt.flyfishing and co.general.  I have found a new home away from home in sci.bio.fisheries ! This following (admittedly out of context but standing alone) quote was the only reply I needed to refuel the cells.  I most certainly am not "mad" about the lack of response.  The only lack of response that I’m mad about is the lack of response from the CDOW. "It is true that the animal rights activists are going to attack this sport with vigor in the next few years. It is time a few fishermen break out of the lock-step of C&R and develop campaigns to pre-empt the inevitable" AMEN Brother…. To Catch is Human, to eat, the *only* possible justification To Catch. — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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Another person said that that included most of the fisheries in his state, however, the bodies of water are themselves artificial. What makes a natural fishery? What waters do you consider natural fisheries?

I generally dislike attempting to define the undefinable, but from a "gut feeling" perspective, I have a definition that I for the most part agree with. A fishery with naturally reproducing fish.  I include fisheries which were stocked with hatchery fish, but that are now self- reproducing. Just my $0.02,      - Ken — "I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts  of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when  I came to die, discover that I had not lived." – Henry David Thoreau

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Cruelty to animals. The horse is dead stop beating the poor thing

Don’t like it when C&R’s practiced on you eh ? It’s whopping good fun from this end ! — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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[deleted] Ah, he’s just mad because he’s not getting the response he thought he would.  The whole thing has mutated into a fight about "picking on Texas."  :-) Quite the opposite my man.  Quite the opposite.  But of course, since you only look at the pictures (and in this case only read the subject line) I wouldn’t expect you to know. It was *PROVEN* that you reply without reading the posts earlier on in this thread Janek, you’re pretty much removed from any possibility of an intelligent debate AFAIC.

B.M.T.I.A.  I love it when you have to resort to your famous *PROVEN* accolades.  It has been "proven" that you have never "proven" a damn thing here.  Every one of your "facts" has been shown to be nothing more than opinion and emotion and lots of people have taken you to task on these.  Throw away your emotional and ethical arguments and you haven’t a leg to stand on.  (No, not even your third leg after you’ve been playing with salt and sidewalks.)  You are all hot air and have been shown as such.  There are many people here willing to hold intelligent discussions, unfortunately you are not one of them. AMEN Brother….

These really are your true colors.  You are on a crusade.  Just like the other loons who stand on street corners and shout insults and tell us all to "repent your evil ways."  As with the other loons, there is no room for reason in your mind.  You’ve never pondered a single thing any other person has said here dispite many well thought out arguments by a great many intelligent people.  It must be sad to live inside such a tiny inflexible mind. Happy Friday,      - Ken — "I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts  of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when  I came to die, discover that I had not lived." – Henry David Thoreau

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what the hell is wrong with a goddamn normal fillet knife.  an electric lesson <G Another goddamned fillet knife purist ! Probably have a Bastard #2 bamboo fillet knife, eh ?

naw…. don’t like the glue lines and they always come with a wierd bend to them. <G chris

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[snipped] …the need to harvest a buttload of small ones from time to time

"buttload of small ones"? Careful with that Powlesland bait, Timmy ;^)

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what the hell is wrong with a goddamn normal fillet knife.  an electric lesson <G Another goddamned fillet knife purist ! Probably have a Bastard #2 bamboo fillet knife, eh ? ;{) You need to read the post to understand the context.

Now doesn’t that crank you up – tim pulls the 5 second sound bight out of the context of another ng (doesn’t even reference the post or the author) and then compains one has to read the whole post to understand the context! A master of misrepresentation! RalphH

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To Catch is Human, to eat, the *only* possible justification To Catch.

The need to justify is an attribute of guilt. — Charlie…

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Couldn’t care less about being baited by you. Unless your a member of an Animal Rights Group. Are you?

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Cruelty to animals. The horse is dead stop beating the poor thing Don’t like it when C&R’s practiced on you eh ? It’s whopping good fun from this end ! — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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I’m sorry everybody, but someone’s going to do it anyway.  So it might as well be me… "That said, I *am* an unabashed Animal Rights supporter. I *WOULD* vote to  make C&R illegal." – Tim Walker Do a DejaNews search if you want to see the context, but it doesn’t matter he meant exactly what he said.        - Ken – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Couldn’t care less about being baited by you. Unless your a member of an Animal Rights Group. Are you? Cruelty to animals. The horse is dead stop beating the poor thing Don’t like it when C&R’s practiced on you eh ? It’s whopping good fun from this end ! — TimW, Halfordian Golfer

– "I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts  of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when  I came to die, discover that I had not lived." – Henry David Thoreau

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Couldn’t care less about being baited by you. Unless your a member of an Animal Rights Group. Are you?

Yes, I am a member of the human race. — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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A great quote there this AM… "a good electric knife and filleting lesson would greatly assist fishery management " Your pal, — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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Ah. I can think of no other two words which would inspire so much daydreaming, except maybe ‘beaver’ instead of ‘trout’.

You’d love driving around N GA, TN and NC. "Trout ponds’ are all over the place, they provide the poles and bait your hook too. Your pa,

Uh, don’t think so<g. — Charlie…

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what the hell is wrong with a goddamn normal fillet knife.  an electric lesson <G

Another goddamned fillet knife purist ! Probably have a Bastard #2 bamboo fillet knife, eh ? ;{) You need to read the post to understand the context.  It was discussing the fact of correcting an imbalance in a fishery vis-a-vis predator/prey relationship and the need to harvest a buttload of small ones from time to time and the observation that most anglers probably won’t fool with a 5 inch crappie, though that might be the best thing to be done and an electric fillet knife makes short order of filleting 200 bluegills. Your pal, — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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[deleted] Your pa, Uh, don’t think so<g.

You’re right…. I meant to type "Your bitch," — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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You misspelled ‘trout pond’<g.

Ah. I can think of no other two words which would inspire so much daydreaming, except maybe ‘beaver’ instead of ‘trout’. Your pa, — TimW, Halfordian Golfer "A Cash Flow Runs Through It…" "Guilt replaced the creel…" B.M.P.I.A.

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A great quote there this AM… "a good electric knife and filleting lesson would greatly assist fishery management "

what the hell is wrong with a goddamn normal fillet knife.  an electric lesson <G chris

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A great quote there this AM… "a good electric knife and filleting lesson would greatly assist fishery management "

You misspelled ‘trout pond’<g. — Charlie…

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I have heard that the fishing for stripers can be good right through November. Can anyone point me to a source of information about this.  It would be helpful to know: How late the fish are generally around. Where you can launch a boat from and safely leave your truck and trailer. What tides and locations are best. Thanks for info. JK

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Http://www.reel-time.com  Check the FishWire Reports.  Weekly NY saltwater fly fishing reports. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have heard that the fishing for stripers can be good right through November. Can anyone point me to a source of information about this.  It would be helpful to know: How late the fish are generally around. Where you can launch a boat from and safely leave your truck and trailer. What tides and locations are best. Thanks for info. JK

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The rare blue amadou is found growning in rectangular white nesting boxes fastened to the uprights that hold the roofs over gas pumps in rural areas.  Individual specimens are large,, abjut 8 1/2 by 11 and they cluster tightly in the white nesting boxes.  When the pump jockey has his back turned, gently poke a couple of fingers into the nesting box, stroke the amadous belly to relax it and swipe a 1/2 dozen or so. When folded to make a pad, does a great job of instantly drying small flies and removing slime. Seriously, corresponded with a brit some time ago and it is a fungus that grows on trees that is quite common in Europe…dunno if it occurs naturally in US or not, but Orvis and Cabellas both have it for sale now…..the blue amadous is easier to get though. My piece of Amadou(sp?) has hit the dust and my local shops don’t carry it. Anyone know of a web based or mail order store that does? Willi

– Mike in PDX "When the trout are lost, smash the state."                          Tom McGuane

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Bill,    Amadou is too expensive, just crush up some desiccant and put it in a 35mm film canister.  when you want to dry your fly put it in the canister, put the top on and shake it. Ernie Harrison See Ernie’s Fly-Fishing Stuff:   http://home.pacbell.net/ernie2

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I believe I saw some in the Orvis or Bean catalog. Bean, I think. — To him, all good things — trout as well as eternal salvation– come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy  ……Norman Maclean

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My piece of Amadou(sp?) has hit the dust and my local shops don’t carry it. Anyone know of a web based or mail order store that does? Willi

   Willi,     If you don’t want to bother with mail order, Bob’s in Loveland has some in stock.

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My piece of Amadou(sp?) has hit the dust and my local shops don’t carry it. Anyone know of a web based or mail order store that does? Willi

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My piece of Amadou(sp?) has hit the dust and my local shops don’t carry it. Anyone know of a web based or mail order store that does?

Orvis (really). — Charlie…

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My piece of Amadou(sp?) has hit the dust and my local shops don’t carry it. Anyone know of a web based or mail order store that does?

Cabela’s sells both the Samadou, a synthetic, and Amadou but both varieties come attached to leather. I prefer just a hunk of Amadou stuffed in the front pocket of my vest. I get them from John Norris of Penrith, for a catalogue see: http://www.johnnorris.co.uk — Ken Fortenberry Illini 3 – Tar Heels 1

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We camped right by a water fall. Barb-Animal lover, nature lover, camper, and mom.

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<<I am planning to visit Glacier National Park in September of 2000.  I’d like suggestions on flyfishing and accomodations there.  Thank you. We tent camped/backpacked there about 9 years ago. My gosh we saw so many grizzly bears. I didn’t sleep too good at night. Every noise I heard freaked me out. Barb-Animal lover, nature lover, camper, and mom.

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Accomodations?  Like with room service? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am planning to visit Glacier National Park in September of 2000.  I’d like suggestions on flyfishing and accomodations there.  Thank you.

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I am planning to visit Glacier National Park in September of 2000.  I’d like suggestions on flyfishing and accomodations there.  Thank you.

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This time last year I was on my second weekend on the Batten Kill with very healthy Hendrikson hatches. This year it is flowing in the fields. This group had frequent posts on the progress of the Connecticut shad. Nothing this year! There were regular posts on the hatches on Western Mass rivers. Nothing this year. I have had one good trip to a nameless Cape Cod pond which held native brookies and that is it! Is anyone else fishing? Gary McMeekin

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This time last year I was on my second weekend on the Batten Kill with very healthy Hendrikson hatches. This year it is flowing in the fields. This group had frequent posts on the progress of the Connecticut shad. Nothing this year! There were regular posts on the hatches on Western Mass rivers. Nothing this year. I have had one good trip to a nameless Cape Cod pond which held native brookies and that is it! Is anyone else fishing? Gary McMeekin

Hi Gary – Maybe just you and I are fishing.  I returned Friday night from the W. Branch of the Delaware, the Beaverkill an Willowemoc.  The Willow was finally clearing up on Friday morning , but the Friday rain should have taken care of that.  An all day float on the W BR produced nada!  Some nice browns were caught at the W. Br Anglers pool on alewives, very deep and slow.  We drifted from the WB angler to the Roscoe Bridge, and saw 6 fisherman!  All the water is too — too high too fast too discolored. The Gas Station Pool on the Beaverkill was clear also but the floods really made a mess of it. When I got home I did go to the Connetquot – which is always fine, but definitely not wild! I’d give the Catskills another week, we did see sporadic Blue Quill and black caddis hatches, but nothing was rising  it’s just  TOO. jg

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We drifted from the WB angler to the Roscoe Bridge, and saw 6 fisherman!  

Neat trick!  How did you float down the West Branch and the UP the East Branch to end up in Roscoe?

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Gary, Yes!  I run a guide service in VT and I have been fishing with my clients for a couple of weeks.  Strictly nymphs and streamers for brookies.  You are right the rivers are a mess. That’s ok the fish aren’t goin anywhere. Let me know if I can help. James

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I’m going out to the Lackawaxen in the Poconos later this week hoping for a hendrickson hatch, anybody got as good lead on shad in the big muddy if it settles down ? Anywhere within 50 miles of Port Jarvis ?

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I fished the Westfield last weekend.  Picked up a couple of browns under the Mass Pike overpass and by the Sheraton Inn along route 20.  the river is very high for this time of year.  Nothing hatching though.  If you go try fishing olive wooly buggers with a little sink tip on your leader.  The fish are there.  The guys at B&G’s told us they just did a private stock of a couple of thousand fish. Could you please tell me what a "B&G" is?  I’m curious.  I also hope to make it out to Western Mass soon to fish.

It is a fishing/hunting shop in Westfield on Route 20 about a mile or so past Tekoa CC.  Great wealth of knowledge about the river.   They

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All trout and char are truly magnificent fish, but for my money wild mountain rainbows are pound for pound the most aggressive battlers once hooked. Mind you , I do love to catch browns, speckles, cuts and bulls. Comments? Life is putting in time between fishing trips. —

Yeah – give me a chrome-sided steelhead or coho salmon, fresh from the ocean ANY DAY – now THAT’S RAW POWER!!!! Regards de Mike.

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The wild brown trout of the Tasmanian highlands are beast.  One kilogram fish can take you to the backing. — Simon Dillon BENDIGO,  VICTORIA,  AUSTRALIA. http://www.hitech.net.au/~simon Check It out.

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Rainbows! Pound for pound, the 1-2 lb. "half pounders with cheese" on the Klamath (CA) make a good account of themselves with a good combination of jumps and runs. I have read in Trey Combs’ Steelhead Fly Fishing: "on specially designed treadmill tests Thompson River(BC) Steelhead out perform all other fish tested".  Luckily the two of these I hooked have stopped after about 200-250 yards, but about one in ten never stops. The weekend before the toxic spill I hooked an amazing 12" wild trout on the upper Sacramento (CA) that took me well into the backing on a six weight.  I thought I had a 20 inch fish on. That trout’s ghost is now at least 24 inches and is prowling the banks for Southern Pacific railroad executives to pull in and drown, if you really want to talk about a fight. These are all rainbows. On the other hand, the lackadaisical Lahontans Cutthroats of Pyramid lake let you bring them within ten feet, then the mess around a while to play with your head, then they swim right to you and do a  little flip around twist that gets them off the hook about half the time.  It seems any trout there over 20 inches knows this trick, in my experience.  In the parlance of pugilism, these are not sluggers or fighters, but damn good boxers. Mark Vinsel http://www.lanminds.com/local/vinnie/gallery.html

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The wild brown trout of the Tasmanian highlands are beast.  One kilogram fish can take you to the backing. The Browns in the Aare river of Switzerland … are some of the strongest fish I’ve ever fought.

Nah, the best fighters are the spring rainbows in the McCloud River in Northern California: big fish, strong currents, screamin’ reels!

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I promised to take my mother flyfishing for a day. Since she has a touch of arthritis, and can’t storm around a rocky streambed too well, I’m looking for a half day float trip somewhere within striking distance of Washington, D.C. Preferably trout,  smallmouth bass okay too. Heard there was a place on the Jackson River in VA. A bed and breakfast with drift boats launched from the front lawn. Anybody know of it? please send a copy of your reply to me at

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I’ve driven past a Bed and Breakfast that has property right on the Upper Jackson and their pamplet said "fishing available". Its off of 39, west of Warm Springs..If you’re interested, I’ll post the name and phone number of the place the next time I’m over at our guide shop….Ron Bennett Flyfishing Virginia L.L.C.  804 467-6668 "Guide service for trout and smallmouth"

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great float trips on Pine Creek in Northcentral PA,…excellent gourmet restuarant and lodge at Cedar Run–Cedar Run Inn

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Unless they have been getting some rain, might be alot of dragging over rocks in Pine Creek by now.  It is a pretty float. Cedar Run Inn is pretty busy in weekends, may be hard to get reservation.                                       regards leo

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Could any one help locate the name of the river in MD that was on TV channel ESPN called Flyfishing America April 1, 1995. I hope to be out that way soon. Thanks

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Could any one help locate the name of the river in MD that was on TV channel ESPN called Flyfishing America April 1, 1995. I hope to be out that way soon. Thanks

Didn’t see the show, but if it was Maryland, it probably was the Gunpowder. Paul DiConza NY Capital District Angler

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I believe the show was filmed on the North Branch of the Potomac below the Randolph Jennings Dam.  The general public cannot fish where the filming took place !!!!  I have fished in that river this spring and caught a few, biggest about 13".  There are large fish in there but they are fish that have been released from hatchery operation  by dam.  1 mile below dam is closed to public.  Gunpowder river north of Baltimore is probably better ‘bet but very busy on weekends and during good hatches.                                                    regards leo

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