Letort Flashback- Somethings Never Change

                       ( The Letort had a massive chemical/insecticide kill in the early 1980's from a watercress farm that wiped out 80% of its wild brown trout population. . It has a chemical spill last year that killed 280 wild brown trout or so. . Despite all this, the resilience of wild Salmo trutta goes on. Yet we still cant figure out how to manage this holy shrine in its total exclusiveness- I just shake my head! )

Flashback Wednesday - SlideScan app ( seems like everyday is one nonstop Groundhog Day flashbacks 😂😂😪)

Letort Spring Run PA. Circa 1992, July .air temp 98F . Before global warming was invented. When I was a cool metro- sexual wearing my Dunlop Wellington’s I bought in England , and using my favorite spring creek setup : Orvis CFO with the Orvis Graphite Spring Creek 10ft/ 5 weight- total aristocratic Orvis purism that made you a true country gentleman, even smoked a pipe back then and always had a flask of Spey side scotch . Using a true Letort Hopper and Cricket . The heat was oppressive but the upper meadow was alive wth terrestrials and trout smashing them . A typical “ Loch Leven” brown with cross German genetics is what a Letort trutta looked like back then. Many had dark overtones to them since they spent a great amount of time in undercut banks 

( A Letort brown- 2007)

                            For more great stories on the Letort and many others, read my                                                     Selectivity and Nexus-Stay safe and strong!

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