Fish 2016

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2016

One Bug: It’s all in the fly Starting fishing (at age 70) There’s no place like home (waters) A RIVER REPORTER LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE

Contents

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

One Bug:

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It’s all in the fly

by SAM DECKER

Season opener highlight:

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Agnes Van Put’s soup Contributed photo

Andy Boyar

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By Anne WILLARD

he fifth annual edition of FISH focuses on opposites.

Fishing is for the young, the young at heart and the seasoned. See especially the piece featuring Agnes Van Put, a first-class fly fisher in her own right. The fishing community is looking forward to celebrating Agnes’s 100th birthday this August, but she is also seasoned in the culinary sense (see her soup recipe in this issue).

Some of our new fishers are both young at heart and successful. After taking the flyfishing course at the Wulff School, septuagenarian Stephanie Watman went right out and caught a rainbow trout that any fly fisher would be proud of. See “Starting fly fishing.”

There are great fish landed, and great fish that got away. Check out “Great Granpaw”

by Martin Thomas McKean, published here with permission of Gibson McKean. The 1942 story of the great fish that got away is a classic. Anyone who ever fished remembers best the big one that got away. Big brother Martin remarked in 1942 that Gib McKean was a budding fisherman. (He is fully budded now!)

And when you consider the great fish landed, see the marvelous photography of Peter J. Kolesar, which depicts fish landed as well as the landscapes they were landed in. All the fish appearing in these images were released. As Lee Wulff said, a game fish is too valuable to be caught only once.

With Paul Terry Shultz we explore the fishing opportunities in our backyard and fishing opportunities the world over. Terry captures the essence of the unparalleled fishing opportunities here and draws comparisons with other destinations from the world’s four corners. FISH 2016 sure does get around.

Tight lines and G’ Luck to all, Andy Boyar Section editor

FISH

A RIVER REPORTER LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE

By ANDY BOYAR

Upper Delaware riverscapes A photo essay

By PETER J. KOLESAR

(waters)

By TERRY SHULTZ

Starting fly fishing (at age 70)

by STEPHANIE WATMAN

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PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 26, 2015

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Great Granpaw

By Martin Thomas McKean

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One Bug: It’s all in the fly

By SAM DECKER The guide jumps into the icy Delaware and fights upstream, following the fly line. Reaching the bank, he slips and slides on the rocks and finally reaches a small tree. Shinnying up the tree, he works his way out on the smallest branches he trusts will hold him. Reaching out as far as he can, he picks a leaf off the end of the branch.

“Got it!” he yells, and is answered with whoops and hollers from the boat. Back at the boat he carefully removes the fly from the leaf and securely ties it back on to the leader. All this for a $2 fly?

Well, this isn’t just any fly. It belongs to a contestant in the One Bug competition, a fundraiser for Friends of the Upper Delaware (see opposite page). To him, it’s a matter of survival. Lose that fly and you’re out.

Every year since 2008, teams of fly fishers congregate in Hancock, NY to participate in this wonderful event. I say “fly fishers” because there have been women in every competition, and I am one of them. Monies raised by the event are used to support and protect the Delaware River watershed.

The idea is that a team of two fly fishers competes against other teams fishing with only one fly each day.

They can count only those trout caught with that one fly they have chosen, and all fish are released unharmed. If the fly is lost, they are done competing for the day.

There are awards for the team with the most points, the biggest fish and the individual fly fisher with the most points. The guides compete for the Top Guide award, signifying that the four contestants they guided accumulated the fish whose total inches of length is the greatest.

Winning any of the categories brings the participant only a trophy and bragging rights, but by watching and listening to the participants you would think it’s much more than that.

As the One Bug approaches, you will see boats with folks fishing, trying to find their killer fly. I have heard members planning the next year’s fly at the banquet dinner of the one just completed. You can’t take the choice too lightly. But as I always say, I don’t want yesterday’s fly, I want today’s fly! You fisherman know what I mean: you go into a fly shop, and they say these worked “yesterday”—but of course they don’t work today! My fly boxes are filled with yesterday flies.

Having been in both the contestant and guide category at the One Bug, I do have a little insight on the fly selection issue. Fish target different life cycles of the bugs that are in their diet. Early in the day, they may target the underwater stage, called a nymph. As the day goes on and if the water temperature increases, then the main course is hatching bugs. These sit on top of the water and are visible to both the fisher person and the trout.

There are many different types of bugs that live in the river, and each has a time frame during the season when it hatches. Fly selection depends on the bug and which 4 FISH • 2016

Photo copyright Dennis Cabarle

A One Bug angling team and their guide enjoy a bright early spring day at the 2015 Friends of the Upper Delaware River (FUDR) contest. stage of its life cycle you are targeting. There are many different patterns for each cycle.

So this is the dilemma facing the contestant: Which fly do I use? Let’s not forget that there are bait fish too, so one could choose a streamer, which looks like the small fish swimming around. The choices are endless. And of course, this is a two-day competition, and what worked today just might not work tomorrow. But then again, maybe it will….

Normally, around the time the One Bug is held, the Hendrickson mayflies are hatching. If you were to look up Hendrickson fly patterns on the Internet, you would see that there are over 1,200 different patterns. Most of the competitors will be fishing a pattern representing this bug. Walk around the morning just before the competition starts, and groups of fly fishers decked out in waders will be huddled, secretively looking in little fly boxes or cups deciding if their pattern is going to be the killer fly.

Many times there is a last-minute change in the competitors’ fly choice due to the input from their guides.

All the guides have their tried and true flies, and many times they have had more recent experience on the river

than the competitor.

The event starts on Friday with a big barbeque under the tent at the Fireman’s Park in Hancock, and it is open to the public. There is both a silent and live auction. The following two days consist of fishing, with breakfast, lunch and dinner included. The awards banquet is held on the final evening.

You can never really predict what will happen on the river. One year it was so windy you just couldn’t cast. My client cast so hard his fly fell apart within 10 minutes.

We have had extremely high water, making it difficult to slow the boat down, and very few rising fish. Some days it has been so hot all you really have wanted to do is get out of the waders and swim. The fish on those days have been in the same mood, staying low and waiting until evening to eat. We have had rain and cold, but also more than our fair share of beautiful spring days.

I can’t wait to see what this year will bring. If you want to participate too, see the opposite page for more details about FUDR and this year’s One Bug event.

[Sam Decker is a licensed fishing guide, and she was top guide in last year’s One Bug competition.

She can be reached at samfishes@hvc.rr.com.]

Friends of the Upper Delaware and One Bug Friends of the Upper Delaware River (FUDR) is a community-based watershed conservation organization based in Hancock, NY and the leading advocacy voice for protecting and restoring the magnificent and unique cold-water ecosystem of the Upper Delaware River watershed.

FUDR leads multiple coalitions of diverse constituencies to build strong public support and amplify the growing voice calling for the protection of this special place. FUDR engages in a wide variety of river protection initiatives through policy development, public education, grassroots organizing and on-the-ground stream restoration projects. The two main priorities of the organization are: 1) ensuring consistent and plentiful water releases from the New York City Delaware basin reservoirs and; 2) developing and implementing a comprehensive stream protection plan for tributaries below the dams. Both of these efforts will reap multiple social and environmental benefits including protecting public health, mitigating the impacts of flooding, maximizing recreational opportunities, improving local economies and protecting aquatic habitat.

In late April, FUDR will host its ninth annual One Bug fly-fishing event. A festive community banquet is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, April 29 at Fireman’s Park on the river in Hancock. The keynote speaker this year will be New York Congressman Chris Gibson, who has been a strong supporter of protecting the Upper Delaware River in the U.S. House of Representatives. All members of the public are welcome to the banquet, which includes dinner, music, dancing and a live auction. Tickets cost $100 per person and can be purchased online at www.fudr.org/2016/01/05/ one-bug-2016/.

For more information on the One Bug Banquet and everything else FUDR is working on to protect the river, visit www.fudr. org., or email Executive Director Jeff Skelding at skelding@fudr. org or Sherri Resti, executive assistant, at sherri@fudr.org.

— Jeff Skelding, Executive Director

Photo copyright Dennis Cabarle

The night before FUDR’s One Bug contest, a gala dinner, complete with live auction, is thrown in a luxuriously decorated tent on the banks of the Delaware.

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Season opener highlight: Agnes Van Put’s soup Plain lentil or pea soup

By ANNE WILLARD

1 lb. split peas or lentils 8 cups water Ham hocks or ham bone 1 c. chopped celery 1 c. chopped onions 1 bay leaf 1 pinch cayenne pepper

If you’ve ever been to the season opener celebrations held by the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum (CFFCM), you’ll know that one of the main attractions is the delectable soup (three different kinds of soup, actually) that Agnes Van Put serves up every year to warm the crowds of eager anglers at the frequently chilly “First Cast” opening ceremony.

But Agnes is much more than a good cook. She has been a fixture in the Catskill fly-fishing world for decades. Her son Ed was inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame in 2008 for his role in helping to preserve and enhance the Catskill fisheries as well as his important contributions to fly-fishing literature: “Trout Fishing in the Catskills” and “The Beaverkill.” Agnes will be celebrating her 100th birthday this year, and you can celebrate along with her at CFFCM’s Summerfest and Angler’s Market, which will be held on August 6 and 7.

In the meantime, there’s lots of fun to be had at CFFCM’s 35th annual Season Opener celebration, to be held on Saturday, April 2 starting at 9 a.m. To give you a preview, we give you the recipe for one of Agnes’s soups, which she has very kindly given us permission to print.

Wash and sort peas. Put all ingredients in pot and cook until peas are tender. You may put it in the blender to puree if you like. Add some cream or serve with sour cream.

If you want the other two recipes, you can find them in the “Catskill Fly Fishing Center Cookbook,” available in the gift store of the museum. But if you want the bona fide Agnes Van Put versions, you will have to actually show up on April 2. That’s because, as she told us, there is one key ingredient missing from the printed recipes. “What’s that?” we asked.

The response came with an engaging twinkle: “Love,” she said.

[CFFCM is located at 1031 Old Route 17, between Livingston Manor and Roscoe. (There is signage directing you to the turnoffs on Route 17.)

Season Opener activities will take place with a ceremonial first cast on Saturday April 2 at 9 a.m. on the Willowemoc River at the center’s entrance, featuring actor Olec Krupa and New York State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther. For a full schedule of the day’s events, visit www.catskillflyfishing.org.]

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By ANDY BOYAR Anyone who ever subscribed to Field & Stream Magazine in the past is familiar with the name Ed Zern (1910-1994).

Zern wrote a score of books including “To Hell with Fishing� (1945), “To Hell with Hunting� (1946), “How to Tell Fish from Fishermen: Or, A Plague on Both Your Houses� (1947), “How to Catch Fishermen� (1951), “Zane Grey’s Adventures in Fishing� (Editor, 1952), “Are Fishermen People?� (1955), “A Fine Kettle of Fish Stories� (1972) and “Hunting and Fishing from A to Zern� (1985). But he is probably best known for his zany column, “Exit Laughing.�

Zern was an advertising man and always had one of his cartoons complementing his column at the back of the magazine. He got a chuckle out of my story that when I was a youngster I read his column before I could read. I used to look at his cartoon first (even though it was the last page in the magazine), and then I tried to read the story, sounding out all those words that I did not know, as my dear mother had taught me. I think that is the way I learned to read (and perhaps why I still scan a magazine from back to front). This was all back in the early 1950s.

By the time I graduated college, I actually could read. On a flight to Buffalo, I read an Ed Zern story in an airline publication. In the story, Zern recalled that the most interesting question he was sometimes asked was, “If you had to fish only one body of water, which one would

it be?� The answer, he wrote, was an easy one: “It would be the Upper Delaware River.�

Zern’s reasoning was that on the Upper Delaware, you could catch a greater variety of fresh-water game fish than in any single place (and his readers knew he had traveled and fished far and wide.)

Before his move to the Florida Keys, he purchased a home on the Big Eddy in Narrowsburg, NY. Gib McKean and I happen to have assisted him in that transaction. I told him I had been so impressed with his story about the Upper Delaware River that in the early ‘70s I made a point to permanently locate in the Upper Delaware River corridor. Then I, too, would enjoy its many fishing opportunities.

It was with his signature grin that Zern told me that he had written a lot of stories, but did not remember the one that influenced me so greatly. Then with a wink, he confided to me that it sounded like a “darn good story,� and he was happy to have written it and glad I enjoyed it so much. He liked that I remembered it— and with typical Ed Zern humor—even if he didn’t.

The fish population of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River has been sampled numerous times through efforts of the National Park Service.

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Upper Delaware riverscapes Photographs by Peter J. Kolesar Peter Kolesar is professor emeritus of Columbia University. His mathematical research, often in partnership with Jim Serio of Hancock, NY, led to the Upper Delaware River’s original 2007 Flexible Flow Management Plan (FFMP) and to several improvements since. Kolesar has done path-breaking research in many fields including the deployment of New York City fire companies and police patrol, early glaucoma diagnosis, congestion in telephone call centers and counter-IED warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also an avid fisherman and photographer who almost always has his camera by him on the water, as this photo essay attests.

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Sulphurs settle everywhere, including licensed fishing guide Bill Frasier’s hat, during a copious hatch.

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There’s no place like home (waters)

By Terry Shultz My home waters are the Delaware River, as well as the Willowemoc and the Beaverkill, but the Delaware is my main focus. I love fishing the Delaware’s West Branch and Main Stem down to Buckingham for trout. I fish in “warm water” time between Narrowsburg and Barryville, NY for small mouth bass, but mostly I fish for trout, and almost always, I fish with guide Adrian LaSorte, a friend for at least 30 years. Adrian is a superb guide. If there is a fish to be caught, Adrian will find it. Then he will browbeat me into hooking and landing it and— after photos, of course—letting it go.

This past season (2015), no exception, yielded perhaps more very large browns and rainbows on tiny dry flies than in the past dozen years. With an assortment of good fishing buddies, we floated the West Branch and the Main Stem. Finding sipping beauties, we drifted our size 20 and 22 midge patterns (tiny) on 6 1/2 X tippet (extremely fine) over the rise ring countless times, until, just right… a boil, then WHAM, the strike. If we were lucky, a tug and a pull and a swimming trout to be managed most carefully, coaxed into the shallows and then to Adrian’s net for a huge “Huzzah!” and great relief all the way around.

Happily, I have been privileged to fish a lot of other places as well, all over the world. But wherever I fish, my home waters always beckon me back, and invite comparisons. Always the question, “Is this river more or less like the Delaware?” Does it compare with other Catskill streams?

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After traveling the world fishing, the author always comes back to the Delaware—with beautiful fish like this brown as his reward.

Travels over the rainbow The Jardine, on Cape York, the farthest northeastern tip of Australia, is a river that flows through the jungle, and is perfectly clear, as witnessed by our sighting a sleeping-eight foot crocodile— yikes!—in the sand underneath our boat. Once harassed, the croc made a fast exit upstream. This river, I was told and I think it is true, actually starts in Papua New Guinea, 300 miles to the north, and there goes underground, and traveling though limestone caves under the shallow sea, then arises again on the Cape York peninsula where, about the size of

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Author Terry Shultz poses with a three-spotted pompano against a background in Oman—very different from our home waters.

the West Branch of the Delaware below Deposit, it flows 20 or 30 miles into the Gulf of Carpentaria, that great sea on the north coast of that fabled continent.

There I spent a happy day with two other anglers tossing very large dry flies at such exotic species as baby tarpon, arrow fish (the fish spits at insects on a leaf three to six feet away, dropping them into the river where the fish then eats the bug), and saratogas (a strange-looking and much smaller variation on the barramundi). No, we were not attacked by any crocs or poisonous snakes, but we stayed alert, and did very little wading.

The Jardine’s bottom was both rocky and often sandy, and its water gin clear, and so while it aroused reminiscences of the West Branch, it was really quite different.

Also, I don’t usually hear jungle sounds, hoots and hollers of exotic birds, and occasional calls by other fauna, along the West Branch—but we did often along the Jardine.

In the Ganges, a mighty watercourse I have fished many times as it hurtles out of the mountains of northern India, I seek that famed game fish, a distant cousin of the carp, the mahseer. Moody fish, mahseer take when they wish, and often not.

Water levels seem to dictate some of their behavior, but I never quite figured it out.

One 24-hour period I caught over 30, including two larger ones, going nine and 14 pounds, respectively. Then the bite went dead and we were blanked for the next two days. That’s happened to me more than once with Mahseer.

Rio Gallegos is in the far southern part of Patagonia, where gargantuan brown trout swim in from the sea to torment fly fishers who seek their company. Though similar to the Delaware in volume, it is sited in wide un-treed plains, populated with rheas and guanacos. It was there that I hooked into and managed to land a magnificent fish that was estimated at 18 pounds.

The Gambia River of Senegal will not likely be confused for the Delaware or any other Catskill stream. From a bluff I watched hippopotamuses wallowing in a big pond formed by the river, where the previous day we had canoed downstream to check out some fishing spots.

In the dry season, way upstream the

river was but a trickle, and we found a few wallows where we cast for tiger fish and African pike, but surely no memories of the Delaware. It was fun, though, to hear the troop of baboons in the trees on the high bank as they hollered at us to get out of their territory, and we made baboon sounds and defiant gestures back at them and asserted our right to be on the river. It’s a long way from home.

Can you find a river like the Delaware closer to home? How about the South Fork of the Holston in Tennessee? Well, the geology of the area, that ultimate definer of the character of a river, is very different. With its numerous shale ledges tilted at various odd angles, it prompts no memories of the Delaware. Dry flies, yes, nice fish, yes, but not big ones like you get on the Delaware—at least I did not see them.

Perhaps you need to go to Montana for rivers that make you think of the Delaware. Rivers like the Madison around Ennis, or the Bitterroot, south of Missoula, or the Yellowstone as it courses through Paradise Valley, are all similar to the Delaware in some ways. But it is the Bighorn, just downstream from the “wedding of the waters,” where its name changes from “Wind River” to “Bighorn

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But when I get home, even though I have sampled all those grand waters of

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Starting fly fishing (At age 70) conception that I discovered was without basis. Case in point, Joan Wulff, perhaps the foremost fly-caster today, is known and admired the world over. I learned from her that it is timing and gentle force that are the foundations of effective casting and fishing.

By Stephanie Watman

Fishing with Dad I grew up on Long Island, surrounded by water, and those waters held lots of fish. My dad, an aeronautical engineer, loved to fish. He fished to relax and unwind.

As a teenager, I accompanied him many a day on our 23-foot cruiser. We used blood worms for flounder and squid strips and killies for fluke on the Great South Bay. The boat rule was, “If you want to fish, you have to bait your own hook.” And I did. But that was a long time ago.

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Starting fly fishing At age 70, I hardly expected to renew a 55-year-old friendship, and I certainly did not anticipate that my new partner would be a fly-fishing nut. But that’s what happened. Thus, I was introduced to fly fishing as a new challenge. Would age and gender be issues?

Well, I always loved sports and outdoor activities. I have played in a softball league, have played golf, and for the last 30 years my passion has been tennis. I started playing tennis at age 40—and I thought that was a late start. It’s not only physical for me but mental as well.

Playing tennis gives me a deep satisfaction down into my core. As I love competition, would fishing be another challenge that would give me a similar sense of accomplishment?

I imagined fly casting must be like hitting an overhead in tennis. Well, was I ever wrong. I found out it was not so. With golf, I knew the concept of “swing easier, go further.” I began to see similar principles in fly casting. I had to rethink some of the concepts that were drummed into the heads of every one of my generation: “try harder, go further,” a post-war American mantra.

But as I have learned, this is not necessarily so in golf, tennis or fly casting.

There is certainly much to learn, more than I thought.

My fly-fishing mentor shares his insights and gives me fly-fishing tips. We fish together, and he makes suggestions about my casting. Sometimes I cast perfectly, and at other times I want to smash the rod. I have felt that about tennis, too. The tippet tangles, and I take five giant steps back and ponder my errors. It has been frustrating at times.

So why have I kept going, starting a new sport at age 70?

I enjoy the challenge, but there is much more. The serenity on the river and the beauty of this new world awakened my senses. A new dimension and sense of being alive has been added to my life. But my mind and my body were not always working together. So I had to stop and think and possibly retool.

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Stephanie Watman catches a rainbow on the Lackawaxen River in Pennsylvania.

So it came to be that I became a fly-fisher in my own right last season. We were on the Lackawaxen River.

It was a beautiful evening. I saw the tell-tale ring of a rise and intuitively made my cast. The fly landed where I wanted it to. It was perfect. The trout took. I followed my instincts and lifted. I was fast to a wild creature— a beautiful rainbow. At first, I felt a bit panicked, but I played the fish and brought it to my “guide’s” net. One quick vanity photo, and the fish was back in the water.

It swam away strongly. I was fulfilled and happy. I did it!

Opportunity, without limitations Now it is I who am hooked! So I now am in a position to suggest fly fishing as an opportunity for everyone, whether woman or man, young or seasoned. What seemed so intimidating is, in actuality, a lovely and enriching outdoor activity for everyone.

It helps to hook up with an experienced fly fisher, but you can also get good start-up advice at your nearby tackle shop, local chapter of Trout Unlimited, or by visiting the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum. We also have a number of licensed guides active on our rivers who would be glad to help you get started. You can find a list at www.nps.gov/upde/planyourvisit/fishingguides. htm. Once you feel the rod bend and release on a proper cast and watch the line deliver your fly to its target, you are apt to become hooked on fly-fishing as I have been.

Are you in?

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Lessons with the legendary caster Joan Wulff, right, helped the author to break through on her casting.

Joan Wulff to the rescue Joan Wulff’s Fly Fishing School helped me immensely over my early frustrations. Two full days of school with fly-fishing pros teaching me the proper way to cast, together with the essentials of a fly-fishing experience gave me a sense of independence on the stream. I discovered that the starting rod I had been given felt too stiff, and that the rod I was casting needed to be more flexible and lightweight for me. The rod had to “fit.” I made a switch to a lighter rod, a four-weight Thomas and Thomas, and now I am in the game.

I learned to hold the rod loosely, but to tighten my grip to snap on the backcast and then to gently bring my elbow down and grip the rod tightly again and push my hand forward with a snap. The fly lands gently on the water. It is a thing of beauty when done correctly. The casting stroke is gentle, graceful and effective.

The notion that fly fishing is a man’s world was a pre-

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By Martin Thomas McKean (Reprinted from a 1942 article by permission of the family) Granpaw was a pickerel around whom a legend has grown. He lived in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dead Water,â&#x20AC;? a beaver pond in the Shohola Brook. At this point, the banks of the brook are overgrown with willows, affording splendid cover for the pickerel lounging beneath them. Every year a plentiful supply of fish came down the brook from the Shohola Falls Lake. providing excellent fishing year after year.

This is how the story goes: My brother, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hen,â&#x20AC;? and I were fishing at Dead Water on a cool summer evening many years ago, when Granpaw made his debut. We had four fair-sized fish, when with a wild eruption Granpaw struck at my pork strip. I knew by the way he struck that I had a large fish, so I called Hen down to help me land him. I then set the hook.

Boy, did that fish come to life! Up and across the brook he tore, thrashing and clearing the water every few feet. l was dumbfounded. Never before had I tied on to such a fish. The reel screeched like a thing possessed, as the pickerel went up the brook almost to the limit of my line before I turned him. Even Hen, who usually offered much free advice, though he was four years my junior, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say a word. The great fish then tore down the brook. Frantically I pumped the reel trying to keep the slack out of the line. It was no use. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t match the speed of this baby with my poor reel. When he was a scant 10 feet from me, he again cleared the water and with a violent shake of his head, threw the hook. The line went slack and my heart sank. He Jim Crowley Owner/Operator

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That night we arrived home, Dad listened knowingly to our tales of this enormous pickerel. After much debate, we judged its length at between 30 and 36 inches. We then proceeded to make plans for his capture.

The next week we again tried to catch Granpaw. Hen tied on to him this time and had about as much luck as I had, All that summer we tried and failed to land him. We caught many fine fish on these weekly jaunts, but only one four pounder that Hen caught neared the size of this great pickerel.

The mornings were frosty now. The leaves painted the hills of Pike County in rich hues of red and yellow. Soon they would fall to the forest floor like a blanket to protect Mother Nature from the winter to come. It was the time of the year when hunters long for the smell of burning powder and start their yearly excursions through the hills and dales after grouse, woodcock and bouncing cottontail. Hen and I succumbed to the spell of the hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moon, and thus ended our quest of Granpaw that year.

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Trout season had come and gone with many fine catches. At last pickerel season opened again. Eagerly we set forth after Granpaw on opening day. We fished the full length of Dead Water without a sight of him. Satisfied with the fish we had, we

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The next week we again fished Dead Water, and Grandpaw failed to make an appearance. This went on for several weeks, and I began to wonder what had happened to him. Was he dead? Did he move? Had someone else caught him?

Then it dawned on to me. I remembered hearing a neighbor mention that some â&#x20AC;&#x153;city fellerâ&#x20AC;? had caught a big pickerel in Dead Water the previous October. That was it! Granpaw was dead!

I said nothing about this to Hen or Gib, a younger brother who was by then a budding fisherman. Although I figured that Granpaw no longer ruled over

Dead Water, the thought of catching him added greatly to the pleasure we got from catching the other fish.

This all happened many years ago.

Granpaw is only a legend now, a legend that lures us back to Dead Water every year. Though he has long since graced the table of some fisherman, his spirit is in Dead Water today, just as he was there many years ago. But this is as it should be. Fishermen, since the day of Isaac Waldo, have been lured far and wide in quest of big fish. That is what makes fishing the grand sport it is, the underlying hope of catching the proverbial â&#x20AC;&#x153;big one that got away.â&#x20AC;?

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