Spring Creek 6-9-18 Centre County Pa
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We all must've had cookie tins for our fly-tying stuff. I still use one. I used a Thompson vise just like the one in the pic for many years and now use a Thompson vise with a lever to tighten the jaws.
I still use a Herter's trout-size whip finisher; I don't even know how to use a modern whip finisher, so if I ever break or lose mine, I'd be in big trouble finishing off a fly. Still use a Herter's bodkin, too.
Marinaro called Tricos by the name Caenis in an Outdoor Life article in 1968 or '69. That article was included in his In the Ring of the Rise.
I used Schweibert's Matching the Hatch to try to identify flies early on, too.
And your black-rimmed glasses: I guess we all wore them back then.
I, unfortunately, never got a Hardy reel. All I could afford in those days were fiberglass rods and Medalist reels. It was a long time before I ever got a graphite rod or a reel other than a Medalist.
I did manage to acquire book after book, though, some not so good but others that were wonderful. Maybe because I'm old, but I don't think today's books are as good or as helpful as those from the dear departed days of yesteryear.
I fished Spring Creek in those days, too, often stopping at Flyfisher's Paradise for materials and fishing at Fishermen's Paradise sometimes. The fishing was better then, esp after they'd quit stocking the creek. Conditions were not overcrowded as they are today, and fishing in the now-removed dams was great. When I drive past the former McCoy's Dam, what is now the McCoy's Ditch IMO, I lament the lost fishing for the large trout that lived there then.
Sorry for an old timer's ramble.
I still use a Herter's trout-size whip finisher; I don't even know how to use a modern whip finisher, so if I ever break or lose mine, I'd be in big trouble finishing off a fly. Still use a Herter's bodkin, too.
Marinaro called Tricos by the name Caenis in an Outdoor Life article in 1968 or '69. That article was included in his In the Ring of the Rise.
I used Schweibert's Matching the Hatch to try to identify flies early on, too.
And your black-rimmed glasses: I guess we all wore them back then.
I, unfortunately, never got a Hardy reel. All I could afford in those days were fiberglass rods and Medalist reels. It was a long time before I ever got a graphite rod or a reel other than a Medalist.
I did manage to acquire book after book, though, some not so good but others that were wonderful. Maybe because I'm old, but I don't think today's books are as good or as helpful as those from the dear departed days of yesteryear.
I fished Spring Creek in those days, too, often stopping at Flyfisher's Paradise for materials and fishing at Fishermen's Paradise sometimes. The fishing was better then, esp after they'd quit stocking the creek. Conditions were not overcrowded as they are today, and fishing in the now-removed dams was great. When I drive past the former McCoy's Dam, what is now the McCoy's Ditch IMO, I lament the lost fishing for the large trout that lived there then.
Sorry for an old timer's ramble.
rrt wrote;
I had a very early marriage and by the time I was 24 I was divorced. I had a good trade at the time, Toolroom machinist, and jobs were very, very, plentiful. I lived with my parents and had plenty of disposable income to buy Hardy reels and quite a few high end bamboo rods. Being single and living with my folks, and having a good paying job, is the only way I was able to afford my fishing tackle and go to Montana for the entire summer.
I had a very early marriage and by the time I was 24 I was divorced. I had a good trade at the time, Toolroom machinist, and jobs were very, very, plentiful. I lived with my parents and had plenty of disposable income to buy Hardy reels and quite a few high end bamboo rods. Being single and living with my folks, and having a good paying job, is the only way I was able to afford my fishing tackle and go to Montana for the entire summer.
