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Oh man ded we grill some fine sockeye filets! Skin side down and when the veins of fat turn white and start to expand they’re done - not a second longer.
We used hot pink chenille egg flies and double egg flies with a little white marabou between the eggs. These were known as sperm & egg flies. We caught several rainbows this way and the purple egg-sucking leech with the pink egg at the nose caught some trout but just as many big arctic grayling. You should go before you can’t. .
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05-23-2021, 12:50 PM | #24 | ||||||
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From John Voelker's "Testament of a fisherman".
I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly; be*cause of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape; because, in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience; because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip; because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters; because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness; because bourbon out of an old tin cup always tastes better out there; because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid; and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant—and not nearly so much fun.
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07-13-2021, 01:21 PM | #25 | ||||||
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From the land of native brookies, 49F air temperature in Mid-July, northern Maine roadside pool, many, many more swim wild and free. Moose tracks line the bank
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07-13-2021, 01:30 PM | #26 | ||||||
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Pretty tasty. Combine them with fiddleheads, medallions of cattail roots and wild mushrooms of your choice.
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