Shortlineto Roscoe
4:30 P.M.
My father the fisherman waits
At Twin Falls Campgrounds
On the Beaverkill
Along the Delaware
Near Carns' Pool
On the bus
An old man tells the driver
You gotta try Wild Turkey and Coke
And I ain't talking about Thanksgiving, either
II.
Next day
For a license I pay
Six dollars
Al's Shop
Shinghop
East branch
Buy Flies
Blue Wing Olive
Twenty in size
Sulphur emergers
Sixteen to eighteen
Ants, black mummy
For spinners they're aching
Letort hoppers
'Cause I like the name
Twenty bucks for a secret map
And a fisherman's game
III.
A man tells me you can fish with Marlboro butts
IV.
Town Line Parking
Old House Eddy
Tim's Turn
Corbett Bridge
Airport Pool
Cornfield Riff
Fireman's Park
Near the dam
Where the water is cool
V.
Stages of life
Emergers emerging
Hatched surfing sulphurs
Isonychia
Females fully formed
Nine-foot line
Two foot leader
Tippet the size of an eyelash
VI.
Wet fly?
Dry fly.
VII.
Ninety percent of fish food is under water
(Go for the beetle or wet fly)
VIII.
Mr. Pigeon
Is a legend
Fireman turned Fisherman
Ties a Snow Hair Rabbit
Dyed yellow
To his line
Ben's Pool
Sulfurs and Isonychia
White-gloved
Sixteen to eighteen
Fifteen degrees
2:00 P.M.
Fishing begins
IX.
Flies are tied
Lines are flied
May the best fisher win
Here's mud in your eye
Line taut or line slack?
Hear a thwack!
Hook dad's back
Guess it was slack!
Waders are leaking
Leaders are breaking
Caught only a bat
And a small one at that
Lines tied
Flies dried
Gear packed
All in stride
X.
At the campfire
Dad speaks of the Romans
Cigs and cigars
Near the parked car
And the tent we've had for a hundred years
XI.
6:00 P.M.
Mr. Pigeon again
South Branch
Aluminum Fly Hatch
Kids paddling canoes with brooms for oars
XII.
Ed McQuat
Is quite a Scot
Invents the E.M.B.T (Ed McQuat's Brown Thing)
On the spot
XIII.
Dad prefers Trico
I don't want to go
For here lies the urge
Where East and West merge
God bless those who fish The Big D ~ Eugena Pilek