A package arrived that held inside a pair of heavy duty waterproof boat boots. Opening the cardboard flaps unleashed the odor of fresh neoprene that soon overwhelmed the room and I stuck them in the garage.
The last time I inhaled that much polymerized 2-chlorobutadiene occurred when I bought my first pair of waders. My roommate told me to wear the gravel guards on my elbows and I didn’t believe him then but he still tells it like I did.
It took me a long time to catch a trout.
I don’t think about trout very often now but that’s mostly a matter of geography. I live on an island with hundreds of miles of striper coastline and three imperfect trout streams.
One of them opens for catch and release soon and in this interlude five-weight aspirations gain momentum.
4X, bow cast, tip set, jump, roll, flash pink.
Dial 1-800-Mix-A-Lot and kick them nasty thoughts.
6x you jerk.
They’re stocked.
“imperfect. go fuck yourself twatbag” said the 7″ carmens river native brook trout
Legend has it Daniel Webster caught a 48-pound brookie there back in the day.
heard it was a salter
My buddy caught a sea run on the Nissie at that one spot.
You no like trout? Trout not expendable.
Rambo not expendable. I love troot. If I lived where they live they’d be job one.
Don’t let Smithhammer anywhere near that secret brookie stash. He’ll slaughter them with an eye so ravenous it makes a post-slumber Grizzly look like a 5th Avenue tabby plucking Fancy Feasts out of Waterford crystal.
Is that because of deep-seated Western bias against the invasive brook trout horde or just because he’s developed a taste for them smoked, broiled, grilled and/or sauteed?
The only things imperfect about them is to many people and to far away.
To clarify that descriptor, I meant imperfect in that one was decimated by IPN, another affected by recession-induced park closures and TU petitioned to have the third declared “Impaired Waters:”
http://www.peconicbaykeeper.org/siteFiles/News/0016DF9E4D19ECB647DE0334152D3261.pdf
And, in the past at least, the pressure on all three was pretty intense. But they are all beautiful spots.
That they are.
Nice post, Pete. And It’s always fun to read the comments, too. Happy holidays!
– Greg
Thanks Greg, much appreciated, and happy holidays to you and your crew as well.