I very rarely ever keep a fish anymore. They really are too valuable to catch only once.
These three pictures were taken on the West Branch of the Penobscot sometime in the mid-90’s. Little brookies during the day are cute but frustrating but about dusk when the spinner fall happens it is fast and furious as the last picture shows. Yes, she was delicious. And I think she was the last landlock I ever killed.
She took a size 16 Hendrickson spent-wing with chestnut dubbed body and spent CDC wings on a barbless hook.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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