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When people first found out I was going trout fishing in New Hampshire, they told me I ought to check it out with Geordie Thomson...
Somehow or another this all seemed almost a pity. If Harvard had to have a fly fishing club, it's a good thing that somebody named Geordie Thomson would be the president of the thing. After all, Geordie Thomson's name sounds like a trout fly, somewhere between a Quill Gordon and a Grey Ghost. Conversations could run like...
...stream--the Ammonoosic--was only about a quarter of a mile away, finding it was only a matter of going across the street and under the trees. It qualified immediately as real pretty trout water, but things did not look too promising (a good true river for that, though, since things, at least in the fishcatching department, were not too promising). The water was freezing cold, so cold I refused to do any wading. There was some snow on the ground, not much, but hard icy snow in the hollows the sun does not hit. And it was 24 degrees...
...Hampshire's trout fishing season had no formal opening day this year. Most New England state seasons opened sometime in April. New Hampshire decided to permit fishing though all natural openings in the ice from January 1 onwards. For any state, a fishing license is necessary. A full-year out-of-state N.H. license costs...
...even if the streams revive, even if trout, muskellunge and bass thrive tomorrow as they did in Walton's day, a fisherman's luck will remain random and capricious. For most anglers, that will be all right. In the end, they do not gear up for the sole purpose of bringing back a haul of wall eyed pike or edible perch. They also go out in the spirit of that great adventure novelist John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), who once peered beneath the surface of the water and caught the essence of the sport: "The charm...