RE: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

[mark romero]

Jimmy, i drove past and all around the Antirm again today, like i do almost 
every day, just to see the progress they're making. More and more of the new 
siding is goin up every day. You know they had to completely GUT the entire 
building, and dig the basement out so the bar could be in the basement 
again, like the old days. The new codes demanded that, or they would of had 
to put it on the second floor. Most folks would of leveled the building and 
started from scratch. But the new owner, (long time fly fisher and TGF 
member) wanted to preserve the originall facade, outside steps, and other 
things having to do with the originall structure. It's really lookin' good. 
Gonna be great to have it open again. I first read Sparse's book in 1992 i 
think it was.......and that's when i knew Roscoe would be part of my 
everyday life somehow........someday. Now with another winter settling in on 
us, i wonder how many more i can deal with. I guess Time Will Tell, (GREAT 
composition by Bobby Watson btw), and i'll find out. I can't ever see the 
Antrim and not think of Alfred Miller though. All those antedotes in his 
book about his days and nights in the Antrim. And of course i've been 
hearing all the stories about the place forever, well.......since say '94. 
It was still open when we first started comming up here in '89. But we never 
even knew of it's significance until after it closed in '91. I know the old 
owner pretty good, and he's a really cool old guy. He was the second owner, 
but he really put it on the map during his time (40 yrs.) with it. We were 
going to have the CJ there, but the new owner is not positive he'll be open 
in time. Said he didn't want to have to say sorry at the last minute. So he 
said, "next year." Somethin' to look forward to. mark

From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:35:40 -0600
" In this emergency I began to think like a fish.  What would I do if I 
were that big and I had a fisherman where he had me?  I would chew the 
living hell out of him!  Since I had no desire to be simultaneously the 
most famous and deadist fisherman on the Beaverkill, I got out my knife to 
cut the line . . . .   But the brown got between me and the shore, and I 
was having a terrible time with him. . . . You never heard such a commotion 
in your life!  The fish didn't swim around much, but sort of floundered and 
yelled.  I suppose you think a trout can't yell.  Well, this one did, and 
swore too.  I hauled him almost across the river by main strength.  Then 
the line went slack. The big fish came toward me, half out of the water.  
Something hit me in the eye and on the nose, and began battering me, and 
all the while the fish was assaulting me, it was shrieking and cursing."

The setting for this tall tale? Roscoe, NY, near the Antrim Lodge and just 
below the Arena bridge, during mayfly season at the trout-fishing capitol 
of the Catskills.

An Honest Angler, the best of Sparse Grey Hackle (1998)
Edited by his youngest daughter Patricia Miller Sherwood.
In case you haven't read Sparse, his real name was Alfred Waterbury Miller. 
 He was born in 1892 and was the icon of the golden age of fly fishing, 
the confidant and recorder of a generation of fly fishers - George La 
Branche, Edward Hewitt, Harry and Elsie Darby and Vincent Marinaro, to name 
a few.

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