A Side Trip at Hausmann's

[John Davis]

Originally Posted by Bruce Hering

Were any fish molested ?

We were not skunked.

I our defense, it was very windy and the fish were not biting. No one on the river was catching anything and there was no hatch on. We probably would have done much better if we'd waited until about 6 o'clock to get started.

But it is called fishing and not catching. And any day fly fishing on a beautiful river is better than a day.....

[mobirdhunter]

Standing in a river waving a stick, as they say. What's not to love?!

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Standing in a river waving a stick, as they say. What's not to love?!

Quoting John Gierach, one of my favorite authors, "Even Brook Trout Get The Blues."





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[John Bastiani]

How far was the Delaware River from Hausmans? I came from the south and followed several Trout streams along the way. I didn't notice anybody fishing(not like western Maryland) but I wish I would have thrown a rod in my Yukon. There were some beautiful holes that I would have liked to fish.

[John Davis]

Originally Posted by John Bastiani

How far was the Delaware River from Hausmans? I came from the south and followed several Trout streams along the way. I didn't notice anybody fishing(not like western Maryland) but I wish I would have thrown a rod in my Yukon. There were some beautiful holes that I would have liked to fish.

It was about 30 minutes east of Vestal. Hausmann's was about 30 minutes west. If I have my compass right.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Quoting John Gierach, one of my favorite authors. and "Even Brook Trout Get The Blues."
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Forgive my sidetracking for a moment, but like Dean, I'm a fan of Gierach. I don't recall the quotation exactly, but one of my favorite passages concerns a friend of John's who, after visiting the author's house (a very modest affair) in his beater pickup truck, asked how it was that John could afford costly bamboo rods and live in a "place like this" and drive a "truck like that?" John pointed out that it was because he afforded fine fly rods that he lived in a place like that and drove a truck like that. That passage hits home with me, but hey, what we value is what we value.

I often tell my wife that priceless and worthless are very similar in that there is no money involved.

Okay, back to the fishing trip...