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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...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

"Oh, a number 12 Geordie Thomson. I'd been fishing all morning with a #14 Black Gnat with nothing happening, but when I switched to the Geordie Thomson all hell broke loose."

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

But there weren't any Geordie Thomson's in my fishing bag, so collecting some leaders, streamers, nymphs and anything else I could fish wet, I figured to head for New Hampshire, specifically the Ammonoosic River, up north in the White Mountains, near the little town of Bethlehem (N.H.).

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

So I started casting, tentatively at first, since I hadn't done it in a long time. The water was a little high and not real clear, which made sense, since obviously some of the snow was melting and running off. So I began fishing with a Hornberg, not because...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

So, getting colder, I went back to the house for breakfast and then went into town for groceries and some more gear (mostly in the way of streamers--artificial flies made to resemble minnows in the water and fished "wet", or under water--as opposed to being fished "dry", or...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

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