JIMMY D
"Rivers like the Beaverkill were the cradle of the dry fly in America, and one cannot fish them without respect for their tradition. With our fishing pressure of today, they can never be what they once were; but even in recent years I have fished the Beaverkill, and have seen the rise at twilight on Barnhart's Pool reminiscent of the old days on the river.
There is something quite wonderful about fishing these storied pools, and one cannot but help feel reverence for the parade of famous rods that has fished before him: Theordore Gordon, John Trainor Foote, Edward Ringwood Hewitt, George M. L. LaBranche, Albert Everitt Hendrickson and countless others who have dropped their casts on the pool that gurgles about his waders.
I know that I cannot escape this feeling on the pools away from the highway when the twilight falls and I am alone with the river. One almost expects to round a bend and find the ghost of Richard Robbins, (Dean of the Beaverkill), and to be hailed by the old man to tie on a fly for him in the failing light of age and evening."
Earnest G. Schwiebert, Jr.
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======================================================== Jimmy D. Moore - Retired Scout Executive, BSA, Moderator Fly Fishing World Email List,Member VFB, HCFF, GRTU, FFF, NAFC - Life Member. Contributor - Texas Fish & Game Magazine. Outdoor Humor Writer. Author of "MOON HOLLER MISFITS" Click URL for info. http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html "Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to a Quarterback." ========================================================
