Ok, That has to be a much nicer lake.
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> From: "Chapman, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/02/21 Fri PM 12:32:23 CST
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: RE: [VFB] Why I Fly Fishing/Tie Flies?
>
> Nope, Echo Lake in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RE: [VFB] Why I Fly Fishing/Tie Flies?
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>
> 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.
> >
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