Several members of the Asheville Project Healing Waters chapter attended the 2010 Harman’s North Fork Invitational Fly-Fishing Tournament on June 3-5. Held on the North Fork of the Potomac River in Seneca Rocks, WV, the gang competed against competitors from Colorado to Florida. The event spanned four 3-hour sessions over 2 days, with varying rules in play for each session and total length of fish caught determining the winners.
After years of trout fishing in various stages of life and with different people, I’ve developed a set of criteria to determine whether or not it’s time for a fisherman to lose weight. If you find yourself described by more than 5 of the descriptions below, you may want to hit the gym.
You look like a frog, even before you put the waders on.
You’re not the one taking your own boots off at the end of the day.
You need a fishing companion to remove the hook from your own landed trout because the fish is still too far away.
Some of the TroutU staff are heading up to Alaska for a much needed vacation. On Facebook they mentioned going to the Kenai and Russian Rivers. I commented on Facebook but that brought back fond memories of my experiences on those rivers.
Most of the major rivers in the United States have had dams constructed for flood control, irrigation or for purposes of harnessing the raw power; and some have been created simply to reduce mosquito populations in an effort to control malaria. Behind each dam is an impoundment that provides great recreational opportunities as well.
I know the story about George Washington throwing a stone across the Potomac, but when I saw the Potomac near Washington, DC for the first time, I knew it was nothing but a popular myth. It seems that his grandson G.W. Parke Curtis was writing about George’s great strength when he said that George did throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River below Fredericksburg, still an impossible feat. No one knows how or when the story morphed into the stone across the Potomac.
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