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Chasing Marinaro’s Big Spring- Wild Trout Utopian Dreams still in Limbo

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( A stunningly beautiful and vibrant colored Big Spring wild brook trout-author image-circa 2015) “Man's Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality.”(quote by Stewart Stafford) It was as pure and utopian as a wild brook trout heaven could … [Read more...] about Chasing Marinaro’s Big Spring- Wild Trout Utopian Dreams still in Limbo

MICROMANAGING MINUTIAE-OVERCOMING TINY FLY PHOBIA

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( Though many of us love to fish dries and swinging wets, Midges and micro crustaceans are a trout's bread and butter in the benthic bio drift in winter as pictured above. Thus entailing nymphing either traditional or Euro style. Though we tend to confuse midge larvae color with adults' coloration … [Read more...] about MICROMANAGING MINUTIAE-OVERCOMING TINY FLY PHOBIA

The Season’s Closing-Blessed by Wild Trout Gems in Veiled Hallows

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"Small brooks make great rivers" (French Proverbs) Everything in the universe has a beginning and end. From a Nova, to Supernova to a Black Hole abyss, there is a transition. Except for the Almighty, if one chooses to believe; this is the one eternal spirit of the Alpha and Omega who's being … [Read more...] about The Season’s Closing-Blessed by Wild Trout Gems in Veiled Hallows

Dances with Tricos-The White Curse Demystified

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If you are a summertime trout stream fly fisher you will know the scenario about to be described all too well. You get to the stream armed with your favorite hopper or ant pattern. Or maybe a Sulphur/ BWO emerger on a big icy cold tailwater. And as you walk the banks you see little white clouds of … [Read more...] about Dances with Tricos-The White Curse Demystified

Terrestrials-the Trout Manna from the Sky

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( Cover image- A gorgeous brown that engulphed a Morrish hopper on a stunning Wyoming spring creek in the blistering heat for hopper mad Greg Senyo) Many trout anglers look at the dog days of summer with disdain. Gone are the big mayfly hatches of May and June when savage beastly browns, brooks … [Read more...] about Terrestrials-the Trout Manna from the Sky

Trico-licity-The White Curse that’s a Dry Fly Blessing

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The early chalk stream English school called the hatch the "white curse". When Halford and G.S. Marryat hung out and fished the hallowed waters of the River Test, they often pulled up chairs by the Ghillie's Huts and told tales of fish lost, fish selective and uncatchable, but always with fine … [Read more...] about Trico-licity-The White Curse that’s a Dry Fly Blessing