White River, Vermont

My recent trip to fly fish took our group to the White River, near central Vermont. The White is a fantastic place to spend an afternoon. I have fished here many times before, but this time with fly tackle......and this trip was very special.....I was with my brother and his two sons. Now let me tell you, fly fishing is brand new to me, but these guys were born with a fly rod in one hand and an Orvis tattoo on the other arm. (They love this stuff).



The lesson learned on this river could be life altering. Here goes........While on the White, and other rivers in Vermont, Brian showed me many different types of aquatic life, especially mayfly and caddis nymphs under many rocks. Also, I was able to see a few stone fly nymphs.......(small mouth bass love to attack stone flys). The point is that every life in the river is there to serve another.....as food. The circle goes around and around. In fact, in a wider view, we can see the river itself as a living being, full of energy and power. Understanding our place in this landscape is the great lesson.


By learning about and participating in this "food chain", how much can be learned about the world we live in everyday? If every being in the river is food for another, what were we born to feed? What's our purpose?........ The food chain is a deep pond to leap into, but looking at the living river, a flow of water controlled by gravity, with the strength to be unchanged, unstopped, despite the best efforts of man.......I have discovered the river to be PATIENT, if nothing else. ..the water finds it's own place to exist.....it's own time....the determination a river must have.




The lesson I learned is that we only have one life time to create a legacy.....some sort of impact....the river has no such time limits......eons of time will pass and the water will still flow....cutting rock and earth....reshaping it's path.

The trip to the White culminated with William catching a fine rainbow trout......the video of his fish is below.



Fishing with these guys was a great trip. I learned plenty, and hope I taught a little.

Thanks for coming along on my fly fishing trip to Vermont, I hope you had a great time. Stop by again for more pics and stories from the Green Mountain State.

Jeff

On the Ground, Outdoors