David A. Van Wie
The Fishing Were Rising, But I Needed More Bytes
After getting off the Yellow Breeches at 6:30 on Saturday, I drove only a couple hours before I was ready for dinner and a good night’s...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 25, 2017
- 5 min
Yellow Breeches
Yellow Breeches, Full of stitches, Mammy sewed the buttons on. Daddy kicked me out of bed For sleeping with the breeches on. The source...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 24, 2017
- 6 min
Mr. Van Wie, Mr. Brown is on Line Two
Lou Zambello and I had been waiting for the sulfur hatch to start, but it was now after 8:00, so we were wondering if the hatch would...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 22, 2017
- 6 min
A Touch of Graystones
If Pennsylvania is the bedrock of American fly fishing, that bedrock is folded and wrinkled like the fishing clothes stuffed into my...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 21, 2017
- 6 min
Beaverkill Blues
The Beaverkill earned its well-deserved fame during the railroad era, when the fabled Ontario & Western (O&W) Railway ran from New York...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 19, 2017
- 5 min
You Should Have Been Here Last Week
While making final plans for the Storied Waters tour, I was joking with friends that I had to be prepared for six weeks of bad timing....
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David A. Van Wie
- May 17, 2017
- 4 min
The Four Freedoms
On Monday, I gave a talk about the Storied Waters tour at Orvis headquarters in Arlington, Vermont to about 25 Orvis associates. Nearly...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 15, 2017
- 4 min
Big Water on the Battenkill
After launching the Storied Water tour at Walden Pond, where Thoreau "lived deliberately" in 1845, I moved on to Manchester, Vermont...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 12, 2017
- 1 min
And I'm off!! Oh, the places I'll go!
For those who took my last post seriously, I'm sorry I caused you heartache. No, the Storied Waters Tour is not postponed until February....
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Andy Borowitz
- May 8, 2017
- 2 min
Storied Waters Tour Postponed Until February
NEW GLOUCESTER- Just hours after a festive send-off party yesterday, reality came crashing down on David Van Wie, forcing him to...
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David A. Van Wie
- May 5, 2017
- 4 min
Gearing Up For The Storied Waters Tour
What does one pack for a six-week fly-fishing and writing excursion? Good question. I do most of my fishing in the remote backcountry...
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David A. Van Wie
- Apr 27, 2017
- 3 min
Stories Untold
My grandfather was a fly-fisherman. Born in 1875, Grampa Van Wie died in 1960 when I was three years old, so I don’t remember him at all....
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David A. Van Wie
- Apr 14, 2017
- 5 min
The first American fly-fishing story? Washington Irving's "The Angler"
I'm no expert on the history of fly-fishing, nor on fishing literature or nature writing. I am certainly an interested, passionate...
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David A. Van Wie
- Apr 5, 2017
- 5 min
Storied Waters: Adventuring on a Budget
40 days and 40 nights. That is approximately how long my Storied Waters trip will be. Let's hope that I have better weather than Noah. My...
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David A. Van Wie
- Mar 20, 2017
- 5 min
Chasing Thoreau's Ghost
Walden Pond is my first stop on the Storied Waters tour. I have yet to find any evidence that Henry David Thoreau fly-fished. In Walden,...
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David A. Van Wie
- Mar 6, 2017
- 5 min
Opening Day: An April Fools' Joke?
Opening Day of fishing is just around the corner. Here in Maine, the first day of “open water” fishing is April 1. Note that this is...
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David A. Van Wie
- Feb 24, 2017
- 4 min
You Are What You Read
My list of authors and books to read for The Storied Water Tour keeps growing and growing. Like Jack’s beanstalk, my pile of books will...
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David (Guy) Van Wie
- Jul 20, 2016
- 5 min
Corey Ford and The Boys
The wooden screen door slammed as Guy strolled out to his car to fetch the book and slammed again a moment later as he came back into the...
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