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A Few New Tricks to Learn

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Post date October 31, 2022
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Written by Len Handler & George Wurzbach;

It’s not often that you get to share a compilation with Carly Simon, Livingston Taylor, and Natalie Merchant, plus a dozen other amazingly talented writers. Yet here it is.

Flies Stoneflies

Perla Nymph

Flies Stoneflies

Golden Stone

Flies Stoneflies

Adult Golden Stone

Flies Stoneflies

Perladae Nymph

Flies Stoneflies

Adult Perladae

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East Branch Brown, Delaware 2013

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Post date October 30, 2022
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Floating with Ben Rinker, I took this EB beast on a Hendrickson. Nearly lost him in the heat of the battle when my fly line became badly tangled in the bottom of the boat. Ben came to the rescue, holding the front of the fly line in his teeth while he whittled the knot away. Somehow, the fish managed to stay on during the fray, hence the proud hero shot. But it’s equally Ben’s fish.

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Stripers, LI Sound, 2018

Mouth of Housatonic River, Short Beach;

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West Branch Brown

24″ on a Caddis Dry; Early in the season, floating down from Balls Eddy, we spotted this fish rising along the right bank. There was nothing to indicate his size – just another WB brown slurping Caddis flies. The cast was easy, and after a good fight, he was in the net. I nearly fell out of the boat when Ben measured him to 24.” Still my Delaware River PB……….

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East Branch Brown

What a day this was! Three fish over 20″. I fished with my friend, Frank Corrente, and guide Ben Rinker put us over some amazing fish.