Chris,
Would that be Echo Lake in West Milford, NJ? Jackie > > From: "Chapman, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/02/21 Fri AM 08:18:14 CST > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [VFB] Why I Fly Fishing/Tie Flies? > > I can't resist... > > My Dad, the epic Trout Meat Hunter - taught me how to catch fish. Using a > single spinner hook and a nightcrawler and maybe with a kernel of corn, I > was always impressed of how successful he was at catching large trout out of > the local ponds we fished. It was good time with Dad. Then he and my mom > split up in a somewhat ugly divorce and one day as a peace offering to his > son he showed up with a fly rod when I was 8. This was the beginning of my > journey into life by myself. Sure I would see my dad every other weekend, > but he still fished with a worm.. and I with a fly. It was through meeting > other fisherman, hanging out at local fly shops, and mostly fishing by > myself where I learned what I did. But the fun was when I started tying on > virtually no budget, and thus experimented with flies and techniques that > caught fish. Some were traditional but most were my own creation based upon > material availability and the vast amount of species I would fish for > ranging from trout, to salmon, to bass and perch... I wran into my Dad at > Echo Lake two summers ago (hadn't seen him for several years). I was > troling multiple fly rods, and he was anchored with is single spinner hook > and his nightcrawler - hitting the springs for big brook trout. > > Life is funny that way. >
