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(birds chirping)
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This piece of water we're gonna fish, it's a thicket.
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The casting is very demanding in this tight brush.
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I don't think that this cast
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and this type of fishing has ever really been recorded.
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Come on, control it.
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If we can capture this on film today,
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it will be a highlight.
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This is not gonna be an easy day
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but it's gonna be a great one.
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(relaxed guitar music)
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To catch a brook trout in all its wriggled beauty,
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it's gold to me.
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(relaxed country guitar music)
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♪ Blue ♪
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♪ Is the ocean ♪
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♪ Green ♪
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♪ Is the sea ♪
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♪ I ♪
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♪ Chose between them ♪
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♪ They ♪
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♪ Both chose me ♪
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♪ Painted black on my door ♪
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♪ I ain't waitin' for a cry ♪
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♪ to come by ♪
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♪ Give me a sign that I want more ♪
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♪ I ain't sure if there's time ♪
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I am Joe Humphreys.
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I am 86 years old,
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86 years young.
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It took me about two and a half years to write this book
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and so many times when I was writing that book,
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I hit the wall and the way I got around that,
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I just picked up the fly rod, head for the stream,
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work a patch of water and said,
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"Oh, this is what I want to say."
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♪ Come light the day, your sun ♪
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♪ Starts to wake my eyes ♪
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♪ Bless my eyes ♪
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♪ Soon ♪
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♪ Hesitate on my ♪
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♪ Soul, whoa ♪
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I'm a professional fly fisherman
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here in Central Pennsylvania and these streams
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are some of my favorites to fish in all the world.
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I've been fishing since I was six years old.
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From that moment on, I have lived, breathed,
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taught and competed in the wonderful sport of fly fishing.
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♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
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♪ On my soul ♪
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Fly fishing is a form of fishing where
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instead of using live bait like worms,
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you mimic bugs with materials such as fur and feathers.
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The fly is cast into the water with a fly rod
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and propelled by the weight of a line.
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Well, isn't that neat?
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That is beautiful.
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After 80 years, I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Oh, ho, ho, ho, that's a nice fish.
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You might as well get this 'cause Ranger Rick,
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if I still have that fish,
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I'm gonna get him one way or the other.
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When I hook a big fish or I hook a fish at night
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or anytime I'm fishing and I get into a fish,
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the little boy comes back.
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Oh, did he get off?
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It was a big brown trout, a brown trout about that long.
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That was a brown trout about 14 inches.
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Oh well.
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It's no coincidence that my life has always been enchanted
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by a beautiful creature that's tough to catch, a fish.
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(relaxed rock music)
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♪ On my soul ♪
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(rhythmic chanting)
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♪ On my soul ♪
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I have made fly fishing my livelihood.
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I've taught thousands of students
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over a period of many years.
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I will continue to teach until
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I've finally reached the bottom of that mountain.
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My dad has accomplished so much in his life
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and he is really famous in the fishing world.
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{\an8}Almost every place we go or any place we travel,
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we will meet people who know him.
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He's fished in pretty much every state in the US
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and that includes Alaska, he's done World Championships.
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He's traveled all over the world fishing.
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But my dad does everything
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when it comes to teaching fly fishing.
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{\an8}My purpose and intent of this video
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{\an8}is to have you enjoy this sport to its fullest.
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{\an8}The line is in motion and fling it.
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{\an8}The back two fingers pull.
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{\an8}He did the first fly fishing series ever on ESPN.
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"Fly Fishing Journal"
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with your host, Joe Humphreys.
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Today on "Fly Fishing journal,"
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{\an8}I have with me, my special guest George Harvey.
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{\an8}George and I have been fishing many years together
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and it's a real pleasure for me to have
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my mentor on the stream with me on this Spring-
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We'll meet people who will say
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{\an8}"I learned so much through watching his videos."
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{\an8}Fish along with me this morning
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and maybe we can catch a couple fish.
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Maybe we can get really lucky and catch three.
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His books meant
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everything to me when I was growing up.
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{\an8}He does fly fishing shows, clinics.
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{\an8}When I'm through with this demo, you'll be so screwed up,
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you won't know which end of the rod to hold.
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So that's fair warning.
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I always think there's nothing left to do
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but he always says there's that one more book in him.
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There's one more video in him.
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There's always something else that can be done.
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To me, one of his biggest contributions
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is all the charity work he does.
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Do I have all my little students here?
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{\an8}Yes.
Hello.
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{\an8}Hello there.
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{\an8}For him, it's not about fame or glory.
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He feels that he's been given this gift
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and he needs to give it to other people.
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What happens to people if they don't have
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proper instruction and they don't have any direction
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and they try unsuccessfully on their own,
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frustrations build, "I'll try golf."
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When you have instruction and nothing succeeds
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like success and you say, "Whoa, this is kind of fun."
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When you catch a fish, you're off and running.
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You never forget it.
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Are those just sticks?
Taking the second right.
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That he glued together?
Going over the stream.
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That's a catus.
Oh, it is a catus, cool.
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Who would have every thought that that little fellow
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would've been built of that complete house of sticks.
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He was amazing to go hike with
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and I guess I thought everyone's dad was this way.
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He would be able to tell you whatever tracks
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you saw, what animal it was or respect of nature.
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You thought everyone's dad was like that?
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Oh, I thought everyone's dad was like that.
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Then I realized other people's dads were in office
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buildings in the summer and not doing those kind of things.
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You got a bright future, honey.
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Thank you very much.
Good.
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(soft guitar music)
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What got me hooked on fly fishing?
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The interest, it was almost innate, it was there.
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{\an8}I was born with it.
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{\an8}I've always felt strongly about a piece of water,
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a stream, like it's almost running through my system
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and my body and I think that started at such a tender age.
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I loved to play in the water.
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I loved to wade in the water.
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I loved to look for things in the water
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and so it was just a natural.
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It all started when my father
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moved us from Curwensville, Pennsylvania.
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This house was my family home
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and in that second floor is where we were all born
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and I was born January 19th, 1929.
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Those were the Great Depression years.
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My father had lost his job in a bank. They were hard years.
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So in 1935, we moved to State College
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because my father wanted his children to be educated
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and he got a job in the Bursar's Office
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{\an8}at Penn State University and my life changed.
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But that's where it started.
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That move, it was a weird twist of fate.
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Yes, I got my BS degree and my Masters
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in Education and it's what I wanted to do.
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But little did my father realize
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that he also gave me my livelihood.
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State College was the mecca of fly fishing
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because of Fishermans Paradise,
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a piece of Spring Creek developed
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{\an8}in 1934 for fly fishing only.
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{\an8}This was the first all fly fishing
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{\an8}project in the United States, if not the world.
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{\an8}With this piece of water, fly fishing
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{\an8}was something to learn about and something to do.
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We have more trout streams in Pennsylvania than
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I think any other State in the Union, other than Alaska.
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Central Pennsylvania is limestone country.
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Not only is the area rich in nutrients,
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the runoff from the mountains, the hills,
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the freestone streams go down into the valleys.
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A lot of the streams go underground
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and come up as major springs.
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(relaxed guitar music)
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The clear, cold, top of the mountain water.
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The trout population, their metabolism
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demands temperatures into the 50s, 60s to survive.
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This is why we have such wonderful trout waters in the area,
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because of the beautiful big springs
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that keep our waters clear and cold.
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The mountains, the streams, the resources
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were so wonderful and so the State College area
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was an important aspect of my life.
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We are going after some cold spring water.
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That water is absolutely delightful
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and that's what I have in my coffee here.
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So that's my coffee water in the mornings.
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It's cold spring water that come right out of the mountains.
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Nothing added.
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I can't find any better water than what I have right here.
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And off we go to the happy lands.
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We are now following the main stream of Spring Creek.
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My father took me to Spring Creek when I was a child.
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I was six years old.
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Neither of us had ever fished or picked up a fishing rod.
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We were fishing worms with bamboo fly rods.
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And my first cast, the worm luckily landed in the water
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and then I felt a tug and I pulled and out came a trout and
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it flew up over my head and landed in the weeds behind me.
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That didn't take long.
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I was so excited and lo and behold,
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there was an eight inch trout, a native brown.
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I was just in awe of the beauty of that fish.
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The halos, the spots.
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So this is the beginning and after
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my first experience with my father, it was a quest.
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Here's another one.
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It really stuck with me.
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I wanted to fish.
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You might say that I was self-taught.
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My early efforts were very clumsy
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but I had the patience of Job.
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This is where I caught some of my very first trout.
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I guess you could call this one of my major classrooms.
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When I was probably eight, 10,
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I would get on my bicycle, fly rod across the handlebar
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and I would pedal, pedal to Thompson Run.
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Thompson Run is a tributary of Spring Creek.
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There was so much I learned from Thompson Run.
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I would view trout, watch them feed readily.
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Where they went, how they lifted,
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how they positioned themselves.
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It was like they were laying out a plan for me.
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How would I capture these fish?
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How could I catch one of these?
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{\an8}The most amazing thing to me about what Joe has done,
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79 years ago, there was no internet, there were no videos,
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there wasn't a library of books to learn from.
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My childhood pictures.
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This guy has figured it out on his own.
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Take a look at these.
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I tell a story about catching this fish out of Thompson Run
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and I had tried to catch this trout at earlier times
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and he disappeared through my clumsiness.
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After the last time I spooked that fish,
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I waded into the water and I grabbed a handful
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of vegetation and it was alive with freshwater shrimp and
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some of these shrimp had a little touch of orange on them.
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I found some orange sewing thread in my mother's
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sewing basket and with some fur and that sewing thread,
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I fashioned what I thought
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was something that looked like it.
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I went back to the stream, got into position and made
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the cast and the fish traveled a few feet for that fly.
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It was a 14 inch fish, one of the biggest I had ever taken.
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Now I knew it took the fly underneath
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as well as on top and this is called nymphing.
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I pedaled my bicycle home with that prize
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and my mother took a picture of that fish.
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The trout streams of State College, they were my classroom,
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my playground, they were like coming home.
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I still live in State College because in my 25 mile radius,
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there are several streams you can fish.
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All the special water that held a lot of memories for me.
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Henge Creek, Fishing Creek and the little Juning Ladder.
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Thompson Run down here and Spring Creek.
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Oh, donuts this morning. Well thank you.
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How do you like that coffee this morning?
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Wonderful as always.
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But Spring Creek is my lifeline.
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Spring Creek flows 22 miles from a source
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near my home in the mountains of the Tussey Ridge
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and its confluence with a Bald Eagle Creek in Milesburg.
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Spring Creek means everything to me.
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It's my childhood, my parents
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and my siblings
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but also my wife
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and children.
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Gloria and I raised our family on this stream
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because it runs behind my property.
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I have two wonderful daughters, Johanna and Dolores
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and Dolores, she was in one of my ESPN shows with me.
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And featuring special guest, Dolores Humphreys.
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{\an8}I guess the last time we were together
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{\an8}really and spending much time on the stream at all
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was when you had my angling class at Penn State University.
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That right.
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He went out West or a time after high school
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and helped build the Million Dollar Highway
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in Colorado and he fished the Dolores River.
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I'm even named after a river and Johanna is named after him.
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Both girls have made me so proud.
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Little Johanna being a track champion.
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I don't have the fishing connection with my dad.
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I have the athletic connection.
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We're both pretty strong-willed and pretty stubborn
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and it's always been a competition.
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Even as a kid, he would challenge me to races in the yard.
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You know, 'cause he really wanted to beat me.
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He's a character.
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The secret of my longevity is whole milk.
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I drink milk like it's going out of style.
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I've never had a broken bone and I've been
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in every kind of undesirable situation and no broken bones
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and then I ate a lot of fish in my life.
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When I was a kid, I fished a lot and that's what we ate.
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This is the Joe Humphreys, we're hungry,
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We threw a trout in the pan, we cook it, we eat it.
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My trout sandwich.
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Yeah baby.
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Life is good.
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No tattoos?
No, I never had a tattoo.
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But I have something of that fashion I guess you might say.
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I have a golden trout on in my tooth.
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How old were you when you got that?
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Oh, who knows? Probably in my 60s.
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And then there's Denny.
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My sister and I rely on Denny now
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as an even bigger part of my dad's life.
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Denny is the brother that we never had.
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Denny is like my son, we're so close.
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He was fishing on our stream many years ago and
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did not see the no trespassing sign and he met my mother.
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Fast-forward a dozen years later and he is someone
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that's incredibly important to our family.
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Because of Gloria, I get to fish with Jo,
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we get to go to dinner with the girls,
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spend Christmas together, our families are very close.
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A lot of people have asked me over the years,
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"Summarize Joe as a fly fishermen."
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It's almost impossible.
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Throw him on a small mountain stream where
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you've got no room to cast and he throws
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a Humpy up in there and takes an eight inch brook trout.
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Yay.
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The same day, you could go to a big limestone
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in Central Pennsylvania and he'll drift nymph stone
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on the bottom and pick fish off the bottom.
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I said I was gonna take
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another one before I get outta there.
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There's one.
There's one.
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That's a better fish.
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Yeah, that's what I wanted.
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You go out that night at 2:00
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in the morning in the dark of the moon
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and he'll swing big wet flies and catch a behemoth.
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Yeah, I have it, you sucker.
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I couldn't get him in the net in there.
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It's a good fish. It's a nice big fish.
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Yeah, you think the old man can't still catch fish?
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I've been a fan of his since
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he caught his State Record brown trout in the dark.
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Go ahead and tell us of your State Record.
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Oh, the story?
Yeah.
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{\an8}It's late evening, I'm fishing a big, long, deep pool
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{\an8}and I hear a tremendous explosion and it went stone quiet.
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I knew it had to be a heck of a fish.
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I almost got a divorce over this one
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because I stalked the fish for three years,
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going night after night after night.
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Gloria saying "You're fishing"
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And I told her about this fish.
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One night, my telephone rang and it was my buddy Al Hag
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and he said, "Hey Hump, I'm antsy.
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Why don't you go fishing? I'll just go along."
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And I said, "Okay, Al."
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So I went back to the pool and I went down
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through the first time and I took a pretty nice fish,
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18, 19 and it was okay but I was excited
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because now it's 1:00 morning.
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He said to me, "Don't you think it's time to go home?"
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I said, "Just let me run this top end just one more time."
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And I chucked those two flies across that stream
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in that backwater and I gave 'em a little tip
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to get those flies into motion and all at once,
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they stopped and the rod tip goes (groaning).
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It sounded like somebody rolled a Wurst tub over
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and I put the hammer to this fish, I was just
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almost out of line and I stopped the fish on the run.
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I had no net, a net wouldn't have landed that fish anyhow
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and Al said "Oh my god, I've never seen a fish this big."
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and I said, "Neither have I, I think I've got a record."
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{\an8}The ward measured it, it was a 16 pound 34 inch brown trout.
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{\an8}The previous record was 33.
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{\an8}For 11 years, it was Pennsylvania's record trout.
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{\an8}It is still the fly-caught record brown trout
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for trout in Pennsylvania and probably a lot of States.
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That's the story of the big fish.
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I think of that fish often
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but I've always wanted a 20 pound brown.
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That's been my drive through life.
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I want a World Record and this is one reason
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that I really got into the night game.
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God bless you.
See you, sir. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Joe, he's famous for night fishing.
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We've got some fans.
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Night fishing to me is one of my favorite games.
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It's when the heavyweights come out to feed.
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Your big trout, World Record fish, they're nocturnal.
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These two patterns, I call 'em my stonefly patterns.
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These flies are big, they move water.
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They represent large insects like a stonefly.
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We're gonna go give these a try and see
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if we can't find something larger than a foot long.
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So here we go.
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Follow the blind here,
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Denny.
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Here's a tip for anybody fishing at night.
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Never go on a stream that you don't know
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after dark because it can be very dangerous.
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You can lose your life.
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Whoa, watch these thistles.
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Night fishing, it's not for everybody.
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I mean it's tripping and falling, getting lost, snakes.
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Joe has a great story about stepping on a rattlesnake
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whacking his waders in the middle of the dark.
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It is not as easy as he makes it look.
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It is a lifetime of work that he's put into this.
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Your casting stroke
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and your casting ability comes into play.
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Okay, lights out.
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It's called pinpoint casting in darkness.
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You have to know when to squeeze that stroke off
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to get back under those trees and next to that bank
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and if you don't spot that fly in the very few inches,
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it's difficult to take them.
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(relaxed guitar music)
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I got a big fish. Oh, I got a fish, fish on.
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When you have the take of a large fish at night
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and you feel that heavy weight and the power of a fish,
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it's truly exciting because you don't know
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on the take, how big that fish is.
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It could be 20 inches, it could be 20 pounds.
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Are you getting any of this battle?
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Are you getting any of this?
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Do you want to see a big fish at night?
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There's a big fish at night.
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(laughing)
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It's called credibility.
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Don't talk about it if you can't do it.
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How about that, huh?
What a day.
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The fact that you become known for some expertise
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in your field, that's wonderful but I think as a teacher,
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you want to be as well-versed as you possibly can.
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You owe it to your students.
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I have traveled extensively and have had the privilege
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of working with so many people and teaching so long
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and I'm still so busy teaching.
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Any given week, he's gone at least
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three-quarters of the week teaching a class.
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July still has a couple open dates
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and August still has a couple open dates
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but otherwise this entire schedule book is filled.
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I'm moving all the time, going so many different places.
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When you get old, you think old, you're old.
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86,
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that's just a number.
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How many miles do you think you drive in a month?
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It's hard to say.
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I have a hard time saying no to a lot of good causes.
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What I don't like is driving to Somerset, New Jersey.
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It's called Demolition Derby.
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Okay everybody, pull in with the old man.
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Back to basics, I am a left-hander,
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so I drop down on my right knee.
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I will need help getting back.
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The reason I'm on my knee
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is because I want my arm out of the game.
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We're gonna let the rod work.
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You're gonna lift up into it, stop it and tap it.
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Push your thumb down and we're casting.
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That little pressure, pushing the thumb down here,
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now you don't rotate and move.
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I'm one of the few guys in the profession that don't mind
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going on a stream and working for fish in front of people.
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Joe makes fly fishing look so easy.
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{\an8}He's never failed taking fish with us and we've
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{\an8}put him in some extreme conditions during the 22 years
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To be stewards of a stream,
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you're gonna practice catch-release.
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There's your first little trout of the year.
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Hold on, I'll have another one.
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And I don't like to handle the fish.
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Now I know there's times you gotta show your buddy
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that fish but you don't have to handle it though.
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How many in here have never caught a fish?
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How many in here want to catch a fish?
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(laughing)
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You're at the right place at the right time.
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The Jesse Arnelle group of children
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are mostly from the cities who never get
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a chance to fish and enjoy the great outdoors.
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Good one.
That's insane.
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It'll be a good day if everybody come and fish.
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This is my first time fishing.
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{\an8}My dad fishes all the time, so I wanted to give a try.
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We got him, we got a fish.
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This is fantastic.
This is amazing.
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Wow.
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Look at this.
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Wow, your first trout?
My first trout.
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Oh, what a beauty. Look at the pretty colors.
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Yes. Oh my gosh, this is just amazing.
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I'm just like in a whole 'nother space right now
514
00:26:05,846 --> 00:26:06,920
because of my fish.
That's how I felt.
515
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,050
My first fish.
516
00:26:08,050 --> 00:26:09,710
I hope teaching these kids something
517
00:26:09,710 --> 00:26:12,410
about what the environment means to all of us
518
00:26:12,410 --> 00:26:14,680
when they saw the beauty of this world around them,
519
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,650
the beauty of the fish that they caught.
520
00:26:16,650 --> 00:26:17,960
Without clean water in which
521
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,560
these fish live, we're in bad shape.
522
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,760
You got a challenge.
523
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,420
You gotta take care of these streams that you so enjoy
524
00:26:24,420 --> 00:26:27,010
and you gotta take care of this land 'cause there's a hell
525
00:26:27,010 --> 00:26:30,032
of a lot of people out there that won't protect it.
526
00:26:30,032 --> 00:26:32,760
(class applauding)
527
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,017
Here's one right here.
That's awesome.
528
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,190
That's a polyphemus moth.
Yeah, that's a good one.
529
00:26:39,190 --> 00:26:41,330
Today I'm working with the Brookings School.
530
00:26:41,330 --> 00:26:42,890
These children, they are learning
531
00:26:42,890 --> 00:26:44,880
the ins and the outs of conservation
532
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,190
of the aquatic insects within the waters
533
00:26:47,190 --> 00:26:50,070
and what they mean to the trout and its survival.
534
00:26:50,070 --> 00:26:52,400
I would have loved to have had that opportunity.
535
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,550
It took me 80 years to figure out
536
00:26:54,550 --> 00:26:58,181
the same thing that these kids are learning in one week.
537
00:26:58,181 --> 00:27:01,387
Who, there's a nice big sculpin.
538
00:27:01,387 --> 00:27:04,910
You know, that's strawberry shortcake for a trout.
539
00:27:04,910 --> 00:27:06,270
Yeah.
I like this.
540
00:27:06,270 --> 00:27:07,103
Yeah, me too.
541
00:27:07,103 --> 00:27:07,957
Have you heard of Joe Humphreys before?
542
00:27:07,957 --> 00:27:09,990
Yes I have, I've actually seen his display
543
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:12,510
{\an8}in the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame down in Boiling Springs
544
00:27:12,510 --> 00:27:14,550
{\an8}and it's definitely a great honor
545
00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,520
{\an8}to be with a real living legend.
546
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,300
The brook trout serve as fabulous
547
00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:21,110
bio-indicators for a lot of our mountain streams
548
00:27:21,110 --> 00:27:23,050
and cold water streams here in Pennsylvania.
549
00:27:23,050 --> 00:27:24,950
They're very sensitive to pollution.
550
00:27:24,950 --> 00:27:26,590
A lot of the same streams that these
551
00:27:26,590 --> 00:27:28,190
brook trout are inhabiting are the same
552
00:27:28,190 --> 00:27:30,150
streams where we get our drinking water from.
553
00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:31,710
So they really do serve as an early
554
00:27:31,710 --> 00:27:34,250
detector of poor water quality for us.
555
00:27:34,250 --> 00:27:35,083
How does it make
556
00:27:35,083 --> 00:27:36,817
you feel to see these kids so excited?
557
00:27:36,817 --> 00:27:38,176
I mean it has to remind you of you, right?
558
00:27:38,176 --> 00:27:39,009
Oh my god, it does.
559
00:27:39,009 --> 00:27:40,657
It takes me back to my childhood
560
00:27:40,657 --> 00:27:42,720
and my feet would not have touched the ground
561
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,850
for probably a month, I would have been so excited.
562
00:27:44,850 --> 00:27:47,120
So yeah, I understand these kids.
563
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:49,070
I understand where they're coming from.
564
00:27:51,390 --> 00:27:55,450
When I was a young lad, I did not enjoy going to school.
565
00:27:55,450 --> 00:27:59,253
Fisticuffs, yes, hard knocks, yes.
566
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,990
I became a problem.
567
00:28:01,990 --> 00:28:04,440
Fishing was the catalyst that moved me
568
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,330
from the depth of despair into a whole new life.
569
00:28:08,330 --> 00:28:11,330
The Christmas of 1941, my parents,
570
00:28:11,330 --> 00:28:14,480
being so frustrated with their son, bought me
571
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,037
a book called "Just Fishing" written by Ray Bergman.
572
00:28:18,037 --> 00:28:21,620
"Just Fishing" by Ray Bergman and Fred Everett.
573
00:28:21,620 --> 00:28:23,600
That book turned my life around.
574
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,580
I wrote this so that nobody would steal my book
575
00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:28,630
and I even have my phone number (laughs).
576
00:28:29,810 --> 00:28:34,587
This very first chapter was so influential.
577
00:28:34,587 --> 00:28:36,320
"My first experience trout fishing dates
578
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,950
back to the year of 1903 when I was a boy of 12.
579
00:28:39,950 --> 00:28:42,360
I saw my first living trout in a brook.
580
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,040
I had been wandering through the woodlands near
581
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,450
my home and by some chance, had approached a pool
582
00:28:47,450 --> 00:28:50,420
of a small brook without disturbing its occupants.
583
00:28:50,420 --> 00:28:53,110
As I looked over the bank, I saw six spotted beauties
584
00:28:53,110 --> 00:28:55,600
spanning their fins in the cool, clear water.
585
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:56,840
The sight of those fish
586
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,110
reacted on my nervous system strangely.
587
00:28:59,110 --> 00:29:01,410
I did not know what they were but some
588
00:29:01,410 --> 00:29:04,580
latent instinct within my being informed me
589
00:29:04,580 --> 00:29:07,530
that they were game to be prized highly."
590
00:29:07,530 --> 00:29:11,140
Now if the teacher were to ask me to write a paper,
591
00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:14,920
now I had some direction and I would write maybe about the
592
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,500
brown trout or I'd write about how to fish with a wet fly.
593
00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:23,720
Even look, I even put little X's where these flies were
594
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,577
because those were the flies I thought were important
595
00:29:25,577 --> 00:29:27,990
and those were the ones I wanted to tie.
596
00:29:27,990 --> 00:29:30,700
He had the real basic fundamentals
597
00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:33,513
he had within these pages, I learned from this.
598
00:29:34,430 --> 00:29:36,893
That book gave me a new start on life.
599
00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:39,800
Hopefully my books,
600
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,790
I hope maybe they give somebody direction.
601
00:29:42,790 --> 00:29:45,640
I'm most proud of my dad for who he is to other people.
602
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:49,983
It's not just that he's this famous fisherman.
603
00:29:50,990 --> 00:29:54,370
Somebody can say to me, "My son got to meet your dad
604
00:29:54,370 --> 00:29:56,880
for 10 minutes and it was a wonderful experience."
605
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,010
And that sums it up of who he is as a person.
606
00:30:00,010 --> 00:30:02,828
Kids are the future of this wonderful sport.
607
00:30:02,828 --> 00:30:04,510
Good morning, look at these guys right here.
608
00:30:04,510 --> 00:30:06,420
This is a tough crew right here.
609
00:30:06,420 --> 00:30:10,310
Somebody told me you took 47 fish yesterday, is that right?
610
00:30:10,310 --> 00:30:12,057
Me?
(Joe laughs)
611
00:30:12,057 --> 00:30:13,200
"Who, me?"
612
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,050
Today I'm in Lamar, Pennsylvania.
613
00:30:15,050 --> 00:30:17,000
It's a beautiful sight up here.
614
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,780
To teach a youth fly fishing team.
615
00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:21,090
You don't need heavy diameters if you cast right.
616
00:30:21,090 --> 00:30:22,200
What you have to have is line
617
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,510
and leader control, so that's where we start.
618
00:30:24,510 --> 00:30:27,360
You have to adjust for everything you do.
619
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,570
These children in the last two years,
620
00:30:29,570 --> 00:30:32,055
they've won the Worlds Championships.
621
00:30:32,055 --> 00:30:34,351
All right, we're ready to go.
622
00:30:34,351 --> 00:30:35,690
You gotta remember, I'm a left-hander.
623
00:30:35,690 --> 00:30:39,070
{\an8}There's legendary people in the sport of fly fishing
624
00:30:39,070 --> 00:30:40,810
and Joe is one of the last ones that is around
625
00:30:40,810 --> 00:30:42,440
still helping and still doing things.
626
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,670
You know what he's talking is legit and it's gonna work.
627
00:30:45,670 --> 00:30:48,001
These kids are really tuned in.
628
00:30:48,001 --> 00:30:50,900
(relaxed guitar music)
629
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:52,337
They're so fun to teach.
630
00:30:52,337 --> 00:30:55,070
I want that rod to stop right up and down, 12 o'clock.
631
00:30:55,070 --> 00:30:56,760
Joe is phenomenal.
632
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,620
{\an8}He is just upbeat, wants you to learn as a fly fisherman.
633
00:30:59,620 --> 00:31:01,720
{\an8}Wants you to get better.
Stay here with me.
634
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,006
He's gonna do
635
00:31:03,006 --> 00:31:04,323
anything he can to make you better.
636
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,343
Okay, here we go.
637
00:31:07,290 --> 00:31:09,840
Now this is where the game changes.
638
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,540
On a bow and arrow cast, your fly
639
00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:13,910
should always be seven inches below your handle.
640
00:31:13,910 --> 00:31:15,670
He teaches us.
There's your roll cast.
641
00:31:15,670 --> 00:31:17,820
But then we teach everybody else
642
00:31:17,820 --> 00:31:20,160
and you may talk to a guy who lives in North Carolina,
643
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,540
who lives all the way in California but
644
00:31:21,540 --> 00:31:23,360
they know his methods from somebody who
645
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,130
learned it from somebody who learned it from him.
646
00:31:25,130 --> 00:31:26,730
It just keeps getting passed down.
647
00:31:26,730 --> 00:31:28,457
When he does something, he wants to do it well
648
00:31:28,457 --> 00:31:32,730
but he really has so many different talents.
649
00:31:32,730 --> 00:31:35,650
He boxed for the Navy and at Penn State
650
00:31:35,650 --> 00:31:37,420
and here's something a lot of people don't know,
651
00:31:37,420 --> 00:31:39,880
he was a very good ice skater and he taught
652
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,363
advanced ice skating as a Phys Ed course at Penn State.
653
00:31:42,363 --> 00:31:44,760
When my mother taught beginning ice skating.
654
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,820
So at any given time, you could go up to the rink
655
00:31:46,820 --> 00:31:49,350
and find both of them teaching a class.
656
00:31:49,350 --> 00:31:52,350
He actually was in an ice show where he did
657
00:31:52,350 --> 00:31:56,870
an ice dance with his fishing rod, which was amazing.
658
00:31:56,870 --> 00:31:58,270
Joe Humphreys.
659
00:31:59,222 --> 00:32:01,940
(crowd cheering)
660
00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:05,273
(dramatic guitar music)
661
00:32:08,770 --> 00:32:10,550
There's nothing he doesn't do.
662
00:32:10,550 --> 00:32:13,440
Even at 86, even when he's tired.
663
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,760
He is still in better shape than most people I know who
664
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,940
are in their 40s and 50s and pretty much every morning,
665
00:32:19,940 --> 00:32:22,570
he'll go down in the basement and do his crunches
666
00:32:22,570 --> 00:32:26,180
and his pushups, he calls it I believe pumping steel.
667
00:32:26,180 --> 00:32:27,273
I still pump steel.
668
00:32:28,930 --> 00:32:29,763
I work out.
669
00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:33,573
Don't sit and watch the tube.
670
00:32:35,220 --> 00:32:36,053
Stay busy.
671
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,193
Move.
672
00:32:39,699 --> 00:32:43,116
(mid tempo guitar music)
673
00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:45,533
Awesome.
674
00:32:45,533 --> 00:32:47,923
When I was fighting, I used to train with rope.
675
00:32:47,923 --> 00:32:51,100
It's not a surprise I think that he's still as agile
676
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:53,700
physically as he is because he did all of these sports.
677
00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:55,770
Like I said, it wasn't a passing fad.
678
00:32:55,770 --> 00:32:57,760
It wasn't a membership at a gym for a year.
679
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,300
This was a way of life.
680
00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:01,940
He taught almost every Phys Ed course
681
00:33:01,940 --> 00:33:04,860
there was at Penn State including racquetball,
682
00:33:04,860 --> 00:33:08,480
weightlifting, personal defense, judo and bowling.
683
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,200
I mean he was a really good wrestler too
684
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,400
and wrestling coach and was well-known for that as well.
685
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,340
He wrestled for Penn State and in the Navy.
686
00:33:16,340 --> 00:33:17,800
He's already inducted into
687
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,130
the United States Wrestling Hall of Fame.
688
00:33:20,130 --> 00:33:22,410
He still goes into the room today because
689
00:33:22,410 --> 00:33:25,731
he was Penn State's Assistant Wrestling Coach.
690
00:33:25,731 --> 00:33:27,550
Look at that strength.
691
00:33:27,550 --> 00:33:30,934
These arms have reeled in a few fish, probably what?
692
00:33:30,934 --> 00:33:32,843
When you're ready.
I'd say 10 fish?
693
00:33:32,843 --> 00:33:35,000
I can't give you that, not with the camera running.
694
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,350
These are my heroes,
695
00:33:36,350 --> 00:33:39,723
Cael Sanderson, Casey Cunningham, Jake Varner,
696
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,380
Cody Sanderson.
Dang, strong hips.
697
00:33:44,380 --> 00:33:47,310
Not only the finest coaches in this nation today,
698
00:33:47,310 --> 00:33:49,860
they're teaching these kids moral values,
699
00:33:49,860 --> 00:33:52,740
they're teaching 'em how to face life.
700
00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:55,270
What you do on the mat as a coach or a teacher in
701
00:33:55,270 --> 00:33:58,690
the classroom extends far beyond the mat or the classroom.
702
00:33:58,690 --> 00:34:00,293
It extend into their lives.
703
00:34:01,755 --> 00:34:04,933
{\an8}I wrestled for Joe Humphreys from 1965 to '69.
704
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,010
Okay, Grant you're here and you're sitting down.
705
00:34:10,010 --> 00:34:11,550
That is a great shot.
706
00:34:11,550 --> 00:34:13,940
{\an8}A monumental man in my life.
707
00:34:13,940 --> 00:34:17,180
{\an8}He came in at a time when we needed some direction.
708
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:19,380
The direction I was on, it was quitting school.
709
00:34:19,380 --> 00:34:21,380
If you guys wouldn't have wrestled today, I would have
710
00:34:21,380 --> 00:34:24,818
been saying "Oh, I wonder what cell the Packers are in?"
711
00:34:24,818 --> 00:34:25,960
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
712
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,270
I look at him and I think
713
00:34:27,270 --> 00:34:28,690
there should've been three of 'em.
714
00:34:28,690 --> 00:34:31,467
This man changed my life when he said,
715
00:34:31,467 --> 00:34:32,750
"You're gonna be a great one."
716
00:34:32,750 --> 00:34:36,870
{\an8}Started me in a direction that was so powerful
717
00:34:36,870 --> 00:34:39,950
{\an8}that even when I made the wrong choice,
718
00:34:39,950 --> 00:34:41,700
his words stayed with me.
719
00:34:41,700 --> 00:34:43,870
I give him credit all the time.
720
00:34:43,870 --> 00:34:46,420
I think my dad has always followed his calling.
721
00:34:46,420 --> 00:34:48,500
They were different things at different times
722
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,350
and he has always known that fishing
723
00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:53,840
is what his life's work is to be.
724
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,020
Choosing between wrestling and fly fishing,
725
00:34:56,020 --> 00:35:01,020
it was a decision that I knew would really affect my life.
726
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,040
Fishing I guess you might say was in my blood.
727
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,900
I would never discard it.
728
00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:10,060
It was always there and it had to be there.
729
00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:12,080
But when I found out that I could make money
730
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,780
in the five fishing world collegiately
731
00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:17,670
as an instructor at Penn State, there was no choice.
732
00:35:17,670 --> 00:35:21,361
I gave up wrestling and continued in the fly fishing world.
733
00:35:21,361 --> 00:35:22,910
(relaxed country guitar music)
734
00:35:22,910 --> 00:35:26,170
My mentor George Harvey, he was a hero.
735
00:35:26,170 --> 00:35:29,100
He was an angler that had more insights than anybody
736
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:32,000
I think in the United States or the world.
737
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,340
He created a tuck cast that got the nips to fish.
738
00:35:35,340 --> 00:35:38,540
They created fly tying clinics, he was a pioneer.
739
00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:42,330
I learned so much from him and we were also great friends.
740
00:35:42,330 --> 00:35:44,000
When George Harvey retired from
741
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,140
the angling program at Penn State in 1970,
742
00:35:47,140 --> 00:35:49,310
then I chose to go that direction
743
00:35:49,310 --> 00:35:52,910
and teach the fly fishing courses at Penn State University.
744
00:35:52,910 --> 00:35:54,670
Penn State angling class started
745
00:35:54,670 --> 00:35:57,240
as a noncredit class in 1934.
746
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:01,270
It was not an accredited class until 1947.
747
00:36:01,270 --> 00:36:03,163
And I was there 19 years.
748
00:36:06,470 --> 00:36:08,410
How lucky I've been to make
749
00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:10,643
the love of my life my profession.
750
00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:15,430
There, that's a great shot.
751
00:36:15,430 --> 00:36:17,570
With fly fishing, you're imitating insects.
752
00:36:17,570 --> 00:36:19,140
You're imitating the food chain
753
00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:21,290
in which the trout feed upon.
754
00:36:21,290 --> 00:36:23,590
This is a heldermike, that's a larval stage
755
00:36:23,590 --> 00:36:26,950
of an insect and is lunch and dinner for trout.
756
00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:29,890
How many aspects of this fly fishing game are there?
757
00:36:29,890 --> 00:36:30,800
So many.
758
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,563
This is a stonefly. It has two wing cases and two tails.
759
00:36:35,410 --> 00:36:37,240
This nymph that you see right now,
760
00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:39,210
they crawl from the stream bottom,
761
00:36:39,210 --> 00:36:42,940
crawl up on the vegetation or on the rocks and fly away.
762
00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:45,790
There are so many insects that they inhale.
763
00:36:45,790 --> 00:36:49,820
This is a Caddis Pupa, C-A-D-D-I-S.
764
00:36:49,820 --> 00:36:53,920
They build this case around them and it's an amazing thing.
765
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,603
We can tie these, imitate them and they catch fish.
766
00:36:59,670 --> 00:37:02,590
He's wider and lighter and so the fly
767
00:37:02,590 --> 00:37:06,670
that I'm imitating is the dark part is the case
768
00:37:06,670 --> 00:37:09,640
and the little white is the head coming out
769
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,340
like the caddis is crawling out, this is a good imitation.
770
00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:16,770
That's another part about the game that's so much fun
771
00:37:16,770 --> 00:37:20,140
is that you can find this stuff on the bottom of the rocks
772
00:37:20,140 --> 00:37:23,230
and then you go back to the vice and you tie a fly,
773
00:37:23,230 --> 00:37:26,016
tie and you tie until you get exactly what you
774
00:37:26,016 --> 00:37:28,693
think it is and then you go out and try it and it works.
775
00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:32,360
To catch a fish on something that you made with
776
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,693
your own hand to imitate a glorious little insect,
777
00:37:38,190 --> 00:37:39,253
it's a great feeling.
778
00:37:40,410 --> 00:37:41,673
Isn't nature wonderful?
779
00:37:44,231 --> 00:37:47,770
(relaxed guitar music)
780
00:37:47,770 --> 00:37:50,780
When I'm fishing with people, one thing I say
781
00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:53,977
to them at one point during the day, "Look up."
782
00:37:55,650 --> 00:37:57,450
You've been staring at the water
783
00:37:57,450 --> 00:38:00,680
from the moment we made the first cast.
784
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,283
I like to stop and live the moment.
785
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,620
One of the most beautiful sounds in the spring
786
00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:11,763
to me is a red-winged blackbird and its song.
787
00:38:13,190 --> 00:38:17,013
Or it can simply be the change of the clouds above.
788
00:38:19,575 --> 00:38:22,430
It can simply be the sun reflecting on a log
789
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,570
and those are cherished moments.
790
00:38:26,570 --> 00:38:29,573
The good Lord has given us such a beautiful place to fish.
791
00:38:31,590 --> 00:38:34,620
When you don't take time to recognize
792
00:38:34,620 --> 00:38:37,850
and enjoy it and appreciate it and be thankful,
793
00:38:37,850 --> 00:38:39,513
then you're missing part of the game.
794
00:38:40,576 --> 00:38:44,493
(relaxed guitar, violin music)
795
00:38:50,138 --> 00:38:53,630
This was a gristmill built back in 1822.
796
00:38:53,630 --> 00:38:56,100
I picked it up 50 years ago,
797
00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,790
tried to put it back together and it's most unique
798
00:38:58,790 --> 00:39:01,000
because it has the water running underneath
799
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,810
the living room to a pond with trout in it, I love it.
800
00:39:05,810 --> 00:39:08,310
My brother Dick lived in the adjoining property
801
00:39:08,310 --> 00:39:09,953
and I thought how nice someday it would be
802
00:39:09,953 --> 00:39:13,263
to be with my brother and restore that old mill.
803
00:39:14,302 --> 00:39:15,420
What a guy he was.
804
00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:18,193
He was in the Merchant Marines in World War II.
805
00:39:18,193 --> 00:39:20,320
When he came back, we started to fish together,
806
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:21,900
we started to do things together.
807
00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:23,770
We called each other the brothers
808
00:39:23,770 --> 00:39:26,493
and he was instrumental in helping me with this home.
809
00:39:28,970 --> 00:39:31,100
At the tender age of 47,
810
00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,430
he was killed in a tractor accident
811
00:39:33,430 --> 00:39:37,000
in the field adjacent to me and it was a terrible loss.
812
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,710
He missed his brother terribly
813
00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:41,380
and his mother died when he was only about
814
00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:44,230
college age and he was very close to his mother
815
00:39:44,230 --> 00:39:47,380
and he gets very upset easily with death
816
00:39:47,380 --> 00:39:49,480
and it's easy for us to all say "Oh,
817
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,530
well you have all of us, we're all still here."
818
00:39:51,530 --> 00:39:53,320
But having his wife go before him,
819
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,840
which he never, ever thought would happen, he never
820
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,940
thought would happen and they never planned for that.
821
00:39:57,940 --> 00:39:59,510
It wasn't supposed to happen.
822
00:39:59,510 --> 00:40:02,350
He was five years older. They were both in great shape.
823
00:40:02,350 --> 00:40:06,100
So he's having a very hard time still after a year
824
00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:10,563
accepting that she's gone and going on without her, yeah.
825
00:40:11,820 --> 00:40:16,040
Gloria was my wife. We had 56 wonderful years.
826
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,610
We were on a camping trip, it was on the Loyalsock River
827
00:40:21,141 --> 00:40:23,440
and I'm helping her up on a boulder with me.
828
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,300
Without her, I would have never
829
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,390
developed into any kind of a man.
830
00:40:27,390 --> 00:40:30,080
She was my strong right arm.
831
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,950
She is the driving force.
832
00:40:31,950 --> 00:40:35,940
She is my agent. She is just about everything.
833
00:40:35,940 --> 00:40:36,970
She fished too.
834
00:40:36,970 --> 00:40:41,010
When he proposed to her, only Joe Humphreys would do this,
835
00:40:41,010 --> 00:40:44,370
he put the ring in a fishing license
836
00:40:44,370 --> 00:40:46,950
and I believe presented it to her that way.
837
00:40:46,950 --> 00:40:50,670
She figured out a long time ago that if you can't beat 'em,
838
00:40:50,670 --> 00:40:53,160
join 'em and she knew that there was no
839
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,530
holding him back and that that was his passion
840
00:40:55,530 --> 00:40:57,730
and she was by his side quite a bit on the stream.
841
00:40:57,730 --> 00:41:00,850
My mom, she just was this shining star
842
00:41:00,850 --> 00:41:04,100
and she brought out the best in all of us.
843
00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:05,033
I was so lucky.
844
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:07,550
The memories come back so strong.
845
00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:12,000
Just stay there and read or whatever,
846
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,429
{\an8}just fall asleep and I thought I have to do something.
847
00:41:16,429 --> 00:41:18,667
{\an8}She said "Focus on something."
848
00:41:18,667 --> 00:41:21,230
"Oh, somewhere in this favored land,
849
00:41:21,230 --> 00:41:24,360
the sun is shining bright, bands are playing
850
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,910
somewhere and somewhere, hearts are light.
851
00:41:26,910 --> 00:41:28,990
Somewhere men are laughing and somewhere
852
00:41:28,990 --> 00:41:32,500
children shout but there is no joy in Mudville,
853
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:34,247
mighty Casey has struck out."
854
00:41:36,670 --> 00:41:39,293
Gloria died a year ago, May 20th.
855
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:42,080
It was a hard day
856
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,270
acknowledging the year mark that she left us.
857
00:41:45,270 --> 00:41:48,930
It was appropriate to be at the Inn because
858
00:41:48,930 --> 00:41:52,503
we had been there with her shortly after her diagnosis.
859
00:41:53,835 --> 00:41:55,310
The Aaronsburg Inn is where Denny
860
00:41:55,310 --> 00:41:58,600
and I stayed when we fished Penns Creek each year.
861
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,000
Denny and I were there when we found out that
862
00:42:01,970 --> 00:42:04,993
Gloria had cancer and she can't be cured.
863
00:42:06,820 --> 00:42:07,850
It was gone too far
864
00:42:10,330 --> 00:42:12,200
and so I had a bit of a breakdown
865
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:13,600
the last time we were there.
866
00:42:18,538 --> 00:42:19,705
I'm all right.
867
00:42:20,624 --> 00:42:23,707
(soft, somber music)
868
00:42:27,116 --> 00:42:28,880
With Gloria passing,
869
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,360
there's me trying to provide support to Joe now.
870
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,410
Ironically I think most people including myself
871
00:42:34,410 --> 00:42:36,810
would have looked at getting out on a stream as being
872
00:42:36,810 --> 00:42:40,860
a part of the healing process and initially Joe withdrew.
873
00:42:40,860 --> 00:42:43,400
He did not want to be on a stream, he did not want to fish.
874
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,743
He was suffering too much.
875
00:42:48,152 --> 00:42:49,452
Then I got the phone call.
876
00:42:50,407 --> 00:42:51,357
"Let's go fishing."
877
00:42:52,370 --> 00:42:56,120
(relaxed tempo guitar music)
878
00:43:07,792 --> 00:43:10,896
♪ Hollow to the touch ♪
879
00:43:10,896 --> 00:43:14,896
♪ Make mischief as your witness ♪
880
00:43:22,296 --> 00:43:23,703
There you, there you go.
881
00:43:23,703 --> 00:43:25,533
Oh, that's a better fish.
882
00:43:25,533 --> 00:43:27,690
(Denny laughs)
883
00:43:27,690 --> 00:43:29,375
Yeah, that's a good fish.
884
00:43:29,375 --> 00:43:30,410
I saw the color on that guy.
885
00:43:30,410 --> 00:43:33,173
Oh boy, I'll take him.
Very nice, huh?
886
00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:37,580
Gloria would be happy. She loved it when we went fishing.
887
00:43:40,718 --> 00:43:44,135
(relaxed ensemble music)
888
00:44:03,172 --> 00:44:06,921
♪ With frozen feet I move ♪
889
00:44:06,921 --> 00:44:10,338
♪ The winter brings anew ♪
890
00:44:13,620 --> 00:44:15,320
The secret of life is having something
891
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,070
exciting to look forward to, that is the secret of life
892
00:44:19,250 --> 00:44:22,860
and fly fishing is that, you're going fishing.
893
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,430
90% of the time when we fish together,
894
00:44:30,430 --> 00:44:32,880
I'm not fishing, I'm just standing next to him.
895
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,500
Why would I possibly want to be 50 feet down the stream
896
00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:39,780
doing my thing when the living legend is right there?
897
00:44:39,780 --> 00:44:41,210
Yay.
Yay.
898
00:44:41,210 --> 00:44:42,043
Hey.
899
00:44:43,581 --> 00:44:46,998
(relaxed ensemble music)
900
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,010
Well I'll tell you, we couldn't have had
901
00:45:00,010 --> 00:45:02,760
a better start than we did, it's been a good half hour.
902
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,597
There is a sense of healing with fly fishing
903
00:45:07,597 --> 00:45:10,247
and this sport has come back and helped him heal too.
904
00:45:16,610 --> 00:45:18,880
This is one of the last stands
905
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,010
of virgin timber in Central Pennsylvania.
906
00:45:21,010 --> 00:45:22,883
It's one of my favorite spots.
907
00:45:24,457 --> 00:45:25,393
I'm a tree hugger.
908
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:27,670
These were the game trails
909
00:45:27,670 --> 00:45:30,250
and those were the trails that the Indians followed.
910
00:45:30,250 --> 00:45:33,383
These trails later on became roads, highways.
911
00:45:34,950 --> 00:45:36,640
I love the sound of this little stream.
912
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,363
I love the sound of the water, it's therapy for me.
913
00:45:41,810 --> 00:45:43,853
How picturesque, how beautiful.
914
00:45:46,324 --> 00:45:48,833
What a gift to be here, just to witness this.
915
00:45:50,308 --> 00:45:53,558
(relaxed guitar music)
916
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,153
Let's eat.
917
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,593
It's almost hot dog time, it's getting closer and closer.
918
00:46:10,310 --> 00:46:12,900
Cheers.
Cheers, Denny.
919
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:15,160
Pretty amazing lunch spot.
Yeah.
920
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,920
I've had lunch here with Gloria
921
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,340
and we've had some memorable times here.
922
00:46:20,340 --> 00:46:23,240
Walked the forest trail and reminisce and plan
923
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:26,530
our future and talk about the good times and what adventures
924
00:46:26,530 --> 00:46:30,580
we may find ahead of us and the moral of the story is
925
00:46:30,580 --> 00:46:33,100
enjoy your mate as much as you can while you can
926
00:46:35,580 --> 00:46:38,683
because they can go quickly.
927
00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:47,000
I'm very lucky to have lived this long.
928
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,553
So I'm very happy to face another day.
929
00:46:52,890 --> 00:46:54,100
Jack, Joe Humphreys.
930
00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:58,099
We're going to Pennsburg to shoot for the veterans today.
931
00:46:58,099 --> 00:47:00,287
Okay, talk to you later.
932
00:47:00,287 --> 00:47:03,669
(relaxed guitar music)
933
00:47:03,669 --> 00:47:04,910
How'd you do that?
934
00:47:04,910 --> 00:47:06,420
I fell at night.
935
00:47:06,420 --> 00:47:10,163
That's why I don't fish at night by myself much anymore.
936
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,493
Take this along, let that dry and hope it works.
937
00:47:19,098 --> 00:47:19,931
I'm out of here.
938
00:47:28,130 --> 00:47:30,080
I have volunteered with Project Healing Waters
939
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,720
for many years and there are many chapters and units.
940
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:34,300
They'll be having breakfast but they won't want
941
00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:36,933
to get down on the stream too early with this fog.
942
00:47:38,908 --> 00:47:40,965
Are we here, are we ready?
943
00:47:40,965 --> 00:47:43,451
(relaxed harmonica music)
944
00:47:43,451 --> 00:47:45,370
All right.
There he is.
945
00:47:45,370 --> 00:47:46,640
I made it.
946
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,160
This is hard to see but that's the flak jacket
947
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,610
I was wearing when I got shot, my buddy took that picture.
948
00:47:52,610 --> 00:47:54,880
Whoa, thank God you're here.
949
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,400
Thank God you're all here.
950
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,150
Fly fishing's the greatest therapy in the world.
951
00:47:59,150 --> 00:48:00,400
These waters and the fish
952
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,550
they're catching within, it's a healing process.
953
00:48:03,550 --> 00:48:06,176
Fly fishing for me has been a way for me
954
00:48:06,176 --> 00:48:08,680
{\an8}to concentrate and to focus on something
955
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,570
{\an8}because I have a very active and racing mind
956
00:48:11,570 --> 00:48:14,100
{\an8}with PTSD and it's hard for me to relax.
957
00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:16,250
I can get out of a bad state
958
00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:18,677
of mind and reel myself back in.
959
00:48:18,677 --> 00:48:19,563
When did you get into this game?
960
00:48:19,563 --> 00:48:23,410
{\an8}When I was 10 years old, my father introduced me to it.
961
00:48:23,410 --> 00:48:25,690
Oh, neat and you had some good times with your dad?
962
00:48:25,690 --> 00:48:28,600
Yes sir.
Isn't that wonderful?
963
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:29,433
Let it drift.
964
00:48:30,460 --> 00:48:32,300
Pull, ha, ha, ha.
965
00:48:32,300 --> 00:48:34,389
I see another one, ah, ha, ha.
966
00:48:34,389 --> 00:48:36,350
All right, all right.
967
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:40,760
We're wading these rocks, think
968
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,010
how many thousands of years they've been there.
969
00:48:43,010 --> 00:48:45,150
Oh my god, now you might have
970
00:48:45,150 --> 00:48:47,180
to adjust your casts just a little bit.
971
00:48:47,180 --> 00:48:48,887
One of the things that'll really help you on this one,
972
00:48:48,887 --> 00:48:51,890
the rod tip doesn't go far, it just goes way up high.
973
00:48:51,890 --> 00:48:53,646
Just two inches, okay?
974
00:48:53,646 --> 00:48:56,300
And then I shock and then I drop it and it just stacks it.
975
00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:57,710
Then it's just floating on its own
976
00:48:57,710 --> 00:49:00,160
and all that leader's doing the job for me, okay?
977
00:49:01,010 --> 00:49:02,113
Catch me a fish.
978
00:49:03,137 --> 00:49:06,387
(relaxed guitar music)
979
00:49:11,386 --> 00:49:13,303
A big fish, a big fish!
980
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:15,780
Yo,
981
00:49:15,780 --> 00:49:16,810
keep him, yay.
982
00:49:16,810 --> 00:49:19,496
Oh, what a lovely fish.
983
00:49:19,496 --> 00:49:20,329
Whoa.
984
00:49:23,310 --> 00:49:26,010
I am gonna tear my fingers to pieces but I don't care.
985
00:49:27,535 --> 00:49:28,785
Do you have us?
986
00:49:33,207 --> 00:49:36,360
You just made my whole-
You made my whole year.
987
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,683
Oh, Joe.
Whoa.
988
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,703
You see the way he smashed that?
989
00:49:42,390 --> 00:49:45,870
You'd never think that piece would hold a fish, would you?
990
00:49:45,870 --> 00:49:47,350
Penns Creek.
991
00:49:47,350 --> 00:49:48,183
On a dry fly.
992
00:49:52,433 --> 00:49:54,020
Thank you so much.
993
00:49:54,020 --> 00:49:58,153
Georgie, I am having the time of my life. I'm so excited.
994
00:49:59,860 --> 00:50:02,672
This is a day I will never forget.
995
00:50:02,672 --> 00:50:06,352
♪ Slowly serving ♪
996
00:50:06,352 --> 00:50:11,352
♪ The earth and wild in heaven ♪
997
00:50:11,851 --> 00:50:16,851
♪ Excited about learning ♪
998
00:50:16,959 --> 00:50:21,959
♪ Excitements found on high ♪
999
00:50:22,444 --> 00:50:25,320
♪ From loving what you do ♪
1000
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:26,800
Sometimes I feel that
1001
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,132
the streams and rivers run through me.
1002
00:50:29,132 --> 00:50:32,133
♪ Stay your hand ♪
1003
00:50:32,133 --> 00:50:35,490
And the flow of the waters, it's been my soul,
1004
00:50:35,490 --> 00:50:38,695
it's been my heart and I want to protect it.
1005
00:50:38,695 --> 00:50:42,984
♪ Something we're fighting for ♪
1006
00:50:42,984 --> 00:50:45,920
♪ Means that someone's standing tall ♪
1007
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,953
In Pennsylvania, the top industry is agriculture.
1008
00:50:50,740 --> 00:50:54,100
The second is tourism and people come to Pennsylvania
1009
00:50:54,100 --> 00:50:57,090
to fish our beautiful streams, hunt in our woodlands
1010
00:50:57,090 --> 00:50:59,410
and enjoy the beauty of Pennsylvania.
1011
00:50:59,410 --> 00:51:01,807
Economically, it's smart to save what we have
1012
00:51:01,807 --> 00:51:04,300
and fly fishing is a big part of it.
1013
00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:06,240
All of these streams bring people from
1014
00:51:06,240 --> 00:51:09,560
all over the world to fish here and unfortunately,
1015
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,497
there are so many threats that are facing the streams.
1016
00:51:12,497 --> 00:51:16,463
The drive for the Marcellus Shale and the disruptive
1017
00:51:16,463 --> 00:51:20,550
activities of strip mining can ruin a lot of waters.
1018
00:51:20,550 --> 00:51:22,110
It's a never ending battle
1019
00:51:22,110 --> 00:51:26,090
and we have to stay on our toes to keep our waters clean.
1020
00:51:26,090 --> 00:51:27,260
Here's the thing about Joe,
1021
00:51:27,260 --> 00:51:30,050
{\an8}he's mister conservation as far as I'm concerned.
1022
00:51:30,050 --> 00:51:32,420
Anything that comes off the roads gets dumped
1023
00:51:32,420 --> 00:51:33,910
right into here which gets dumped into
1024
00:51:33,910 --> 00:51:36,300
the Duck Pond gets dumped into Thompson Run.
1025
00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:38,350
Which dumps into Spring Creek, right.
1026
00:51:38,350 --> 00:51:40,630
We'll improve habitat in the stream
1027
00:51:40,630 --> 00:51:42,550
but if we don't get a handle on stormwater-
1028
00:51:42,550 --> 00:51:46,430
If you don't have water quality, what good is the habitat?
1029
00:51:46,430 --> 00:51:48,750
Right, exactly.
You don't have any trout.
1030
00:51:48,750 --> 00:51:49,583
Exactly.
1031
00:51:49,583 --> 00:51:51,390
My major conservation effort
1032
00:51:51,390 --> 00:51:54,060
is Thompson Spring and the Duck Pond.
1033
00:51:54,060 --> 00:51:56,440
{\an8}This is why they call Spring Creek Spring Creek.
1034
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,240
{\an8}There are a myriad of streams along its course.
1035
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:00,790
This is one of the main ones.
1036
00:52:00,790 --> 00:52:03,203
Thompson Run is a big, beautiful spring.
1037
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,020
It is a major producer of cold water
1038
00:52:07,020 --> 00:52:08,993
that gives Spring Creek its life.
1039
00:52:10,380 --> 00:52:13,100
This is Thompson Spring that comes right out
1040
00:52:13,100 --> 00:52:16,390
of the bowels of the earth right up through in here.
1041
00:52:16,390 --> 00:52:19,210
This is the future of Spring Creek right there.
1042
00:52:19,210 --> 00:52:23,130
Just adjacent to it is a pond called the Duck Pond.
1043
00:52:23,130 --> 00:52:26,340
The Duck Pond is a storm sewer runoff holding pond.
1044
00:52:26,340 --> 00:52:30,400
You have chemicals, mercury, oils, every contaminant
1045
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,300
imaginable that flows from the streets of State College
1046
00:52:33,300 --> 00:52:36,430
and surrounding areas going into the Duck Pond.
1047
00:52:36,430 --> 00:52:39,940
In the early 50s, they relocated the highway and that
1048
00:52:39,940 --> 00:52:42,990
relocation pushed Thompson Spring into the Duck Pond,
1049
00:52:42,990 --> 00:52:45,930
pushing all of that contaminated water into Spring Creek.
1050
00:52:45,930 --> 00:52:48,060
See where the arrow is, the turning arrow?
1051
00:52:48,060 --> 00:52:49,190
That's where the stream was.
1052
00:52:49,190 --> 00:52:51,370
We had brook trout, brown trout.
1053
00:52:51,370 --> 00:52:52,700
When it rained, we'd run into
1054
00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:54,540
the iron furnace to get out of the rain.
1055
00:52:54,540 --> 00:52:57,340
So it's hard to believe that the trout stream was there.
1056
00:52:59,943 --> 00:53:02,023
They just took the whole thing and just shoved it.
1057
00:53:02,978 --> 00:53:04,260
{\an8}The water temperature started to climb
1058
00:53:04,260 --> 00:53:07,360
{\an8}to the 80s and 90s, killing the fish.
1059
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,330
{\an8}Spring Creek went down as a major
1060
00:53:09,330 --> 00:53:12,490
{\an8}trout producer and as a viable great fishery.
1061
00:53:12,490 --> 00:53:14,890
Seeing its demise was heartbreaking
1062
00:53:14,890 --> 00:53:17,780
because I had so many wonderful childhood memories.
1063
00:53:17,780 --> 00:53:21,310
I couldn't stand it and so I said what can I do myself?
1064
00:53:21,310 --> 00:53:22,523
What can one man do?
1065
00:53:23,411 --> 00:53:26,370
In the early 70s, I pulled five guys together,
1066
00:53:26,370 --> 00:53:27,890
we sat at this table right here
1067
00:53:27,890 --> 00:53:30,690
and formed Spring Creek Trout Unlimited.
1068
00:53:30,690 --> 00:53:32,760
We determined that we would divert
1069
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,163
that big spring back around the Duck Pond.
1070
00:53:39,250 --> 00:53:41,543
We are at the top of the Duck Pond.
1071
00:53:43,070 --> 00:53:45,910
What you're seeing right here is the diversion
1072
00:53:45,910 --> 00:53:48,910
as it goes up the whole way paralleling the Duck Pond
1073
00:53:48,910 --> 00:53:51,100
and to the right is the spring, the water from
1074
00:53:51,100 --> 00:53:53,400
the spring, coming down through into the Thompson Run.
1075
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,960
It was a nightmare to divert Thompson Run.
1076
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,160
This concrete wall is what we had.
1077
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:01,350
You can see the thickness of it here.
1078
00:54:01,350 --> 00:54:03,110
With an air hammer, a jackhammer,
1079
00:54:03,110 --> 00:54:04,280
we punched a hole through it.
1080
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,360
Then I needed a huge pipe to go through
1081
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,127
the hole that we were making to divert the spring.
1082
00:54:10,127 --> 00:54:13,040
The water flows through and comes down the other side.
1083
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:14,954
Spring Creek came back on its feet.
1084
00:54:14,954 --> 00:54:17,960
It was a major undertaking for a few crazy guys
1085
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,122
that didn't know when to quit, we beat the odds.
1086
00:54:20,122 --> 00:54:20,970
That had to be incredible
1087
00:54:20,970 --> 00:54:22,790
to watch all of your efforts actually happening.
1088
00:54:22,790 --> 00:54:24,650
It was a dream coming true.
1089
00:54:24,650 --> 00:54:27,040
I saw the salvation of Spring Creek.
1090
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,350
The retention dike has eroded.
1091
00:54:29,350 --> 00:54:31,770
A good third of Thompson Spring is now
1092
00:54:31,770 --> 00:54:34,100
entering the Duck Pond, which we've gotta correct.
1093
00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:36,840
People are aware of what is happening now.
1094
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,210
The guys from the Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited,
1095
00:54:39,210 --> 00:54:42,380
the University, they are backing me to get all
1096
00:54:42,380 --> 00:54:45,400
the trees and all the vegetation cut off the dike,
1097
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,430
brush out the area and make it
1098
00:54:47,430 --> 00:54:49,890
accessible so that you can reconstruct it.
1099
00:54:49,890 --> 00:54:51,540
It takes a lot of thought and a lot
1100
00:54:51,540 --> 00:54:53,790
of effort from a lot of people to get it done
1101
00:54:54,630 --> 00:54:57,030
and this is what I'm hoping, that it can happen.
1102
00:54:57,998 --> 00:55:01,831
(relaxed guitar, flute music)
1103
00:55:09,529 --> 00:55:11,060
One of the most famous paintings
1104
00:55:11,060 --> 00:55:13,550
in the history of this country is right here.
1105
00:55:13,550 --> 00:55:16,220
I'm sure it would probably go for millions today.
1106
00:55:16,220 --> 00:55:19,110
This picture right here is the westward movement,
1107
00:55:19,110 --> 00:55:21,250
the covered wagon and the oxen
1108
00:55:21,250 --> 00:55:23,660
and this was done by Joe Humphreys,
1109
00:55:23,660 --> 00:55:27,084
his name is there, in 1939.
1110
00:55:27,084 --> 00:55:30,646
We might put that on "Antique Roadshow."
1111
00:55:30,646 --> 00:55:31,880
(Joe laughs)
1112
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,670
Now here is an interesting, this is an interesting,
1113
00:55:34,670 --> 00:55:39,290
in fact this is my grandfather, Thomas Humphreys.
1114
00:55:39,290 --> 00:55:41,100
My grandfather was in the Civil War.
1115
00:55:41,100 --> 00:55:44,410
This is the famous Bucktail unit.
1116
00:55:44,410 --> 00:55:47,240
They were the snipers, the sharpshooters.
1117
00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:50,990
My grandfather was captured outside of the swamps of
1118
00:55:50,990 --> 00:55:55,240
Richmond and was held in Belle Isle Prison for three months.
1119
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:57,290
Very few people survived three months
1120
00:55:57,290 --> 00:55:59,690
at Belle Isle because there was nothing to eat.
1121
00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:03,470
Then he went on a prisoner exchange and went back
1122
00:56:03,470 --> 00:56:05,930
into battle and he bought in South Mountain
1123
00:56:05,930 --> 00:56:09,330
and then at Antietam, he got down in behind a stump,
1124
00:56:09,330 --> 00:56:11,830
eased himself up over the stump to take
1125
00:56:11,830 --> 00:56:14,530
another shot and a bullet came and caught him
1126
00:56:14,530 --> 00:56:16,820
in the mouth and came out his neck.
1127
00:56:16,820 --> 00:56:20,490
He was 50 years old when my father was born.
1128
00:56:20,490 --> 00:56:22,800
He survived and that's why I'm here.
1129
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,950
I'd say the Humphreys are a pretty strong breed.
1130
00:56:25,950 --> 00:56:30,020
Yeah, I think we have some grit.
1131
00:56:30,020 --> 00:56:33,960
I'm not one to quit and I have staying power.
1132
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,575
Do you care if I fish up above you here?
1133
00:56:36,575 --> 00:56:38,110
Are you Mr. Humphreys?
I am.
1134
00:56:38,110 --> 00:56:40,530
I'd be honored just to watch.
1135
00:56:40,530 --> 00:56:41,773
Well, thank you.
1136
00:56:46,430 --> 00:56:50,530
I'm tenacious until my goal is fulfilled.
1137
00:56:50,530 --> 00:56:51,480
That's a deep hole.
1138
00:56:52,897 --> 00:56:55,970
Will he do it? Some say yes.
1139
00:56:55,970 --> 00:56:58,083
That he has positiveness.
1140
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,497
Nice fish, I want to hold this one.
1141
00:57:08,830 --> 00:57:09,663
Beautiful.
1142
00:57:10,713 --> 00:57:13,393
Look at the colors, the stripes.
1143
00:57:15,220 --> 00:57:16,540
Nice fish.
1144
00:57:16,540 --> 00:57:18,440
Yeah, but he got my nymph.
1145
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,740
I knew I should have doubled the knot.
1146
00:57:20,740 --> 00:57:22,180
Live and learn, Joseph.
1147
00:57:22,180 --> 00:57:23,580
We have another shot here.
1148
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,310
Here's a parr rainbow, look at the parr marks on it.
1149
00:57:30,310 --> 00:57:31,280
Ain't he a beautiful little thing?
1150
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,450
I am still going to take a 20 pound brown
1151
00:57:34,450 --> 00:57:38,010
if I have to come back from another world to do it.
1152
00:57:38,010 --> 00:57:40,290
I will find a 20 pound brown.
1153
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:42,020
Through the years of knowing Joe,
1154
00:57:42,020 --> 00:57:45,140
he only knows one speed, 110%, give it all you got.
1155
00:57:45,140 --> 00:57:46,940
There is no quit in that guy at all.
1156
00:57:49,201 --> 00:57:50,700
When I was filming on the White River
1157
00:57:50,700 --> 00:57:52,570
and on the Little Red in Arkansas,
1158
00:57:52,570 --> 00:57:55,100
{\an8}John Wilson was with me and I hooked what
1159
00:57:55,100 --> 00:57:58,460
{\an8}we thought could have been a new fly rod World Record.
1160
00:57:58,460 --> 00:58:02,293
It was an absolutely huge fish, well over 20 pounds.
1161
00:58:03,820 --> 00:58:06,470
It was over 30 inches.
Oh, huge.
1162
00:58:06,470 --> 00:58:09,550
I saw him roll in the light and-
1163
00:58:09,550 --> 00:58:12,310
The memory still is burning within.
1164
00:58:12,310 --> 00:58:16,800
It's been 10 years and I'm going back to Arkansas.
1165
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:18,400
It's called determination.
1166
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,823
I'm gonna catch that damn fish.
1167
00:58:20,823 --> 00:58:24,656
(dramatic mid tempo drumbeat)
1168
00:58:32,470 --> 00:58:34,050
Let me show you something.
1169
00:58:34,050 --> 00:58:37,480
In 1992, Rip Collins took this 40 pound,
1170
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,310
{\an8}four ounce brown trout out of the Little Red River.
1171
00:58:40,310 --> 00:58:43,850
{\an8}I've hooked huge fish in this river on two occasions.
1172
00:58:43,850 --> 00:58:45,620
Both times, they beat me.
1173
00:58:45,620 --> 00:58:48,080
But a biologist told me, "Either in the Little Red
1174
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,403
or the White, there could be a 50 pound brown."
1175
00:58:50,403 --> 00:58:53,910
A 38 pound brown trout would be a fly rod record.
1176
00:58:53,910 --> 00:58:55,730
I'm still pursuing this record.
1177
00:58:55,730 --> 00:58:58,573
To take a fish like this would be a dream of a lifetime.
1178
00:59:01,097 --> 00:59:04,264
(upbeat guitar music)
1179
00:59:08,271 --> 00:59:12,840
♪ It's one wicked road, you're gonna make it right ♪
1180
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:17,620
♪ You've found your way to go, you're gonna take that ride ♪
1181
00:59:17,620 --> 00:59:22,403
♪ The miles are way too long, the stars are way too bright ♪
1182
00:59:22,403 --> 00:59:27,403
♪ You're gonna wait too long to run away tonight ♪
1183
00:59:28,407 --> 00:59:31,100
The water is extremely high, it's flood stage.
1184
00:59:31,100 --> 00:59:33,860
When my friends inquired at the local tackle shop,
1185
00:59:33,860 --> 00:59:37,227
they said "Go home, the river is unfishable."
1186
00:59:37,227 --> 00:59:38,060
We got a fish.
1187
00:59:39,730 --> 00:59:42,410
Wow. That is a beautiful fish, Joe.
1188
00:59:42,410 --> 00:59:43,243
It's pretty but it's not big.
1189
00:59:43,243 --> 00:59:45,013
We need big, we need big.
1190
00:59:46,729 --> 00:59:49,542
Yeah, we got some weight on this one.
1191
00:59:49,542 --> 00:59:51,183
There's a nice fish.
1192
00:59:51,183 --> 00:59:53,370
Come on Humph, come on, come on.
1193
00:59:53,370 --> 00:59:55,900
When I'm nymphing and I'm into the deeper, heavy water,
1194
00:59:55,900 --> 00:59:57,910
lots of times I'll simply not adjust what
1195
00:59:57,910 --> 00:59:59,790
I'm fishing as much as I do the length
1196
00:59:59,790 --> 01:00:01,840
{\an8}of the leader and it will make a difference.
1197
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,887
{\an8}That'll get a little more time on the bottom naturally.
1198
01:00:07,646 --> 01:00:08,837
Let's get a big one.
1199
01:00:08,837 --> 01:00:10,384
♪ Put a light on ♪
1200
01:00:10,384 --> 01:00:13,712
♪ Me and my blue sky's playing ♪
1201
01:00:13,712 --> 01:00:15,463
♪ Put a light on ♪
1202
01:00:15,463 --> 01:00:17,290
Wow, Joe.
That's a minnow.
1203
01:00:17,290 --> 01:00:19,273
We're looking for a 20 pound brown.
1204
01:00:21,682 --> 01:00:23,673
I'm gonna try to get down on the bottom.
1205
01:00:25,070 --> 01:00:26,163
Take it, go on.
1206
01:00:31,830 --> 01:00:32,663
I got a fish.
1207
01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:35,218
Oh yeah.
1208
01:00:35,218 --> 01:00:37,787
♪ Gonna make it right ♪
1209
01:00:37,787 --> 01:00:40,585
Nicely done.
I just have a feeling
1210
01:00:40,585 --> 01:00:42,335
that it could happen.
1211
01:00:44,189 --> 01:00:47,356
♪ Gonna make it right ♪
1212
01:00:56,931 --> 01:00:58,587
I thought for a second it might've been-
1213
01:00:58,587 --> 01:01:00,437
Oh, I thought it might've been too.
1214
01:01:04,540 --> 01:01:05,870
You can't be discouraged in
1215
01:01:05,870 --> 01:01:08,800
the fishing game or no matter what you do in life.
1216
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:10,970
Sometimes we don't understand why things
1217
01:01:10,970 --> 01:01:14,070
aren't going smoothly but nothing is easy.
1218
01:01:14,070 --> 01:01:15,270
You have to be flexible.
1219
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:25,900
Looks good. That streamer looks really good.
1220
01:01:28,260 --> 01:01:29,810
Let's see what they do with this egg.
1221
01:01:29,810 --> 01:01:31,450
If you're persistent and stay
1222
01:01:31,450 --> 01:01:33,170
with it, it'll pay off in time.
1223
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:41,423
Not a bad fish.
1224
01:01:45,230 --> 01:01:47,730
I knew there was a reason I didn't sleep in today.
1225
01:01:49,083 --> 01:01:52,083
(soft guitar music)
1226
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,973
Now you go and tell your daddy that I'm here.
1227
01:01:59,380 --> 01:02:01,823
What are you doing out there?
Catching fish.
1228
01:02:03,530 --> 01:02:05,030
You're going down the river.
1229
01:02:06,195 --> 01:02:08,175
Is that Joe?
How you doing?
1230
01:02:08,175 --> 01:02:09,700
I'm well.
I am well too.
1231
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:11,410
I caught a trout.
1232
01:02:11,410 --> 01:02:13,380
(Joe laughs)
1233
01:02:13,380 --> 01:02:15,380
He knew me, didn't he? He called me Joe.
1234
01:02:21,441 --> 01:02:24,191
(birds chirping)
1235
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:42,094
Hey James, good morning.
Good morning, sir.
1236
01:02:42,094 --> 01:02:43,630
How are ya, buddy?
Good.
1237
01:02:43,630 --> 01:02:45,393
You're on your feet and you're moving, that's good.
1238
01:02:45,393 --> 01:02:48,670
This is December 15th, our last day
1239
01:02:48,670 --> 01:02:50,993
for the quest of the 20 pound brown.
1240
01:02:53,580 --> 01:02:55,730
So far we've been shortchanged
1241
01:02:55,730 --> 01:02:58,570
but with the luck of the draw and any luck at all,
1242
01:02:58,570 --> 01:03:02,083
we may take a heavyweight, which is always the quest.
1243
01:03:02,950 --> 01:03:05,030
Thank you, John. Thank you.
1244
01:03:05,030 --> 01:03:06,730
We're gonna give it our best shot.
1245
01:03:08,507 --> 01:03:11,674
(boat engine revving)
1246
01:03:15,070 --> 01:03:16,670
I'm not quitting.
1247
01:03:16,670 --> 01:03:20,590
I'm after that 20 pound brown and it could be in front me.
1248
01:03:20,590 --> 01:03:23,507
You never know when that fish can be caught.
1249
01:03:29,507 --> 01:03:32,507
(soft guitar music)
1250
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:52,010
We were working the shoals very successfully
1251
01:03:52,010 --> 01:03:55,050
and we were continuing to catch fish.
1252
01:03:55,050 --> 01:03:56,600
First nibble of the day, Joe.
1253
01:04:00,890 --> 01:04:04,790
But as the day was coming to an end, we made one more run.
1254
01:04:04,790 --> 01:04:06,510
That was a good fish.
1255
01:04:06,510 --> 01:04:07,933
{\an8}It's getting pretty dark.
1256
01:04:09,890 --> 01:04:12,630
{\an8}I had worked all day and this was literally
1257
01:04:12,630 --> 01:04:15,390
the last moment before we had to go back.
1258
01:04:15,390 --> 01:04:18,130
My fly is a large sculpa,
1259
01:04:18,130 --> 01:04:21,680
it's drifting and I'm lifting and it stops.
1260
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:23,260
I feel the head shake.
1261
01:04:23,260 --> 01:04:25,873
If the fish goes upstream, they're usually pretty good.
1262
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:28,050
It's a heavy fish.
1263
01:04:28,050 --> 01:04:30,283
This was the trout, this was my dream trout.
1264
01:04:31,350 --> 01:04:33,760
Yeah, that's a good fish, this is a happy fish.
1265
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,030
This is the fish of a lifetime.
1266
01:04:36,030 --> 01:04:39,153
This fish is so heavy, I cannot move it from the bottom.
1267
01:04:40,572 --> 01:04:41,872
I've gotta stop this fish.
1268
01:04:42,964 --> 01:04:46,381
(anxious ensemble music)
1269
01:04:49,500 --> 01:04:51,363
There's a stump in there somewhere.
1270
01:04:52,290 --> 01:04:55,190
Is he still on?
I don't know.
1271
01:04:55,190 --> 01:04:56,340
Huh?
Go above him.
1272
01:05:02,633 --> 01:05:05,883
Is he running into the weeds?
1273
01:05:14,090 --> 01:05:16,430
He's got you in something.
1274
01:05:16,430 --> 01:05:17,587
It's gone (beep).
1275
01:05:19,180 --> 01:05:20,013
Wow.
1276
01:05:21,272 --> 01:05:23,547
He took me down into the weeds.
1277
01:05:23,547 --> 01:05:25,363
Holy (beep), that was a big fish.
1278
01:05:28,327 --> 01:05:31,070
A big fish like that, they know the bottom.
1279
01:05:31,070 --> 01:05:33,537
He went under, there was a stump or a log
1280
01:05:33,537 --> 01:05:37,323
or something up there or the grass he went back under.
1281
01:05:43,170 --> 01:05:45,730
I thought we had him, I really did.
1282
01:05:45,730 --> 01:05:49,350
When you can't lift a fish, when you can't turn a fish,
1283
01:05:49,350 --> 01:05:51,500
I've never had a fish that I couldn't turn.
1284
01:05:53,540 --> 01:05:55,410
I couldn't turn that one.
1285
01:05:55,410 --> 01:05:56,790
I couldn't put any more pressure
1286
01:05:56,790 --> 01:06:00,110
on him because he was playing me.
1287
01:06:00,110 --> 01:06:01,760
But that's something that you hook a fish
1288
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,873
that big, you don't even get to see him.
1289
01:06:06,273 --> 01:06:07,467
But you could feel him.
1290
01:06:08,730 --> 01:06:12,457
Oh my yes, yeah, I did.
1291
01:06:15,610 --> 01:06:17,630
That trout, if we had landed it,
1292
01:06:17,630 --> 01:06:20,973
would than not have been a real sport spectacular?
1293
01:06:21,910 --> 01:06:25,043
And we had the chance because we hooked the fish.
1294
01:06:30,070 --> 01:06:33,127
God, just heavyweight, just like a log.
1295
01:06:34,882 --> 01:06:36,390
Just like a freakin' log.
1296
01:06:36,390 --> 01:06:41,022
It was like hooking onto the Trident submarine and it's
1297
01:06:41,022 --> 01:06:45,490
running around in the ocean and you have no control.
1298
01:06:45,490 --> 01:06:48,203
To take big fish, you can do what you know to do
1299
01:06:48,203 --> 01:06:51,265
but you have to have some luck too.
1300
01:06:51,265 --> 01:06:54,015
You were really close.
1301
01:06:55,023 --> 01:06:55,856
I'm sorry.
1302
01:07:00,741 --> 01:07:03,929
That was the fish.
I know, I know.
1303
01:07:03,929 --> 01:07:05,762
I'm heartsick for you.
1304
01:07:06,881 --> 01:07:09,881
(soft guitar music)
1305
01:07:22,164 --> 01:07:25,581
(relaxed tempo drumbeat)
1306
01:07:35,940 --> 01:07:38,450
One of the things that I've done since childhood
1307
01:07:38,450 --> 01:07:41,343
I guess was to decorate under the Christmas tree.
1308
01:07:44,700 --> 01:07:47,050
Rather than trains or Christmas gifts,
1309
01:07:47,050 --> 01:07:48,970
my father put together something under
1310
01:07:48,970 --> 01:07:52,100
the tree and so I continued the tradition.
1311
01:07:52,100 --> 01:07:55,830
I'd get the moss from the forest and it keeps rather well.
1312
01:07:55,830 --> 01:07:57,650
It's the American Indians
1313
01:07:57,650 --> 01:08:01,070
and the animals that were here pre-Columbus.
1314
01:08:01,070 --> 01:08:05,060
I've collected the animals and the Indians over many years.
1315
01:08:05,060 --> 01:08:06,310
Some of those little figures
1316
01:08:06,310 --> 01:08:09,233
are probably 70, 80 years old or older.
1317
01:08:10,820 --> 01:08:12,730
At that time in early America,
1318
01:08:12,730 --> 01:08:15,990
we had the buffalo and the Indian here
1319
01:08:15,990 --> 01:08:19,560
and he's maybe trying to catch this rabbit.
1320
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,140
Well, the Indians have to have water and let's face it,
1321
01:08:23,140 --> 01:08:26,130
their livelihood depended upon the fish within
1322
01:08:26,130 --> 01:08:29,270
and somewhere in my lineage, there must have been
1323
01:08:29,270 --> 01:08:32,100
some Indian blood because I sure do connect with
1324
01:08:32,100 --> 01:08:36,430
the American Indian and what he went through to survive.
1325
01:08:36,430 --> 01:08:39,140
I get a kick out of doing it, it's fun.
1326
01:08:39,140 --> 01:08:41,643
I guess that's still the little boy in me.
1327
01:08:45,289 --> 01:08:48,289
(soft guitar music)
1328
01:08:56,900 --> 01:08:59,413
A lot of these are going down and this is coming up.
1329
01:09:01,250 --> 01:09:02,910
In the off season when I'm not fishing,
1330
01:09:02,910 --> 01:09:05,740
hunting is what I really enjoy.
1331
01:09:05,740 --> 01:09:06,890
There's a couple there.
1332
01:09:09,353 --> 01:09:11,363
Come on this way, come on baby.
1333
01:09:12,220 --> 01:09:15,270
You have a lot of thoughts when you're hunting.
1334
01:09:15,270 --> 01:09:19,490
I think about how fortunate I am to be here, to do this.
1335
01:09:19,490 --> 01:09:23,280
It's hard to believe how time, how quickly it passes.
1336
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:28,043
I know that I'm 87 and how fast my life is scurrying on.
1337
01:09:29,380 --> 01:09:31,263
I'm here at the top of a ridge.
1338
01:09:32,390 --> 01:09:35,090
I was happy and thrilled to be able to climb it
1339
01:09:36,219 --> 01:09:39,170
but how many more years will I climb this ridge?
1340
01:09:39,170 --> 01:09:40,240
Hopefully a few more.
1341
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:43,593
At this late stage in my life, I'm still building memories.
1342
01:09:45,050 --> 01:09:48,290
Whether it be that big buck someday or simply
1343
01:09:48,290 --> 01:09:51,123
an eight inch brook trout on a wonderful mountain stream,
1344
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,400
you always have those things to look forward to.
1345
01:09:56,235 --> 01:09:57,820
There's a real purpose in life up here.
1346
01:09:57,820 --> 01:10:00,830
I guess that's the solitary aspects.
1347
01:10:00,830 --> 01:10:02,733
It encompasses all of those things.
1348
01:10:05,450 --> 01:10:06,650
These are my reflections
1349
01:10:07,500 --> 01:10:09,773
when it's awfully quiet and nothing moves.
1350
01:10:17,383 --> 01:10:21,300
(relaxed country guitar music)
1351
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:03,280
♪ Remember when our songs were just like prayers ♪
1352
01:11:03,484 --> 01:11:08,484
♪ Like Gospel hymns that you called in the air ♪
1353
01:11:09,577 --> 01:11:14,577
♪ Come down, come down sweet reverence ♪
1354
01:11:15,577 --> 01:11:20,577
♪ Unto my simple house and ring ♪
1355
01:11:21,249 --> 01:11:22,937
♪ And ring ♪
1356
01:11:22,937 --> 01:11:27,520
(relaxed country guitar, violin music)
1357
01:11:50,370 --> 01:11:51,490
Okay, are we ready?
1358
01:11:51,490 --> 01:11:54,280
I better get the new hat on my old head.
1359
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:55,950
It's cold out there.
1360
01:11:55,950 --> 01:11:57,453
Turn on the damn heater.
1361
01:11:58,890 --> 01:12:01,923
January, February and March can be long, cold months.
1362
01:12:03,060 --> 01:12:05,510
Here we are in the winter,
1363
01:12:05,510 --> 01:12:08,593
we've got snow but I also have cabin fever.
1364
01:12:10,477 --> 01:12:14,470
♪ Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell ♪
1365
01:12:14,470 --> 01:12:18,260
There's times when I just have to be on that stream.
1366
01:12:18,260 --> 01:12:19,413
I'm going fishing.
1367
01:12:25,051 --> 01:12:29,959
♪ Come to me clear and cold ♪
1368
01:12:29,959 --> 01:12:33,053
♪ On some sea ♪
1369
01:12:33,053 --> 01:12:37,636
(relaxed country violin, guitar music)
1370
01:12:38,537 --> 01:12:43,353
♪ Watch the world spinning waves ♪
1371
01:12:43,353 --> 01:12:45,030
♪ Like some machine ♪
1372
01:12:45,030 --> 01:12:46,210
There's nothing like
1373
01:12:46,210 --> 01:12:47,910
a beautiful day on a trout stream.
1374
01:12:48,883 --> 01:12:51,990
It's something that in those cold winter months,
1375
01:12:51,990 --> 01:12:54,793
it keeps you alive and it keeps you coming back.
1376
01:12:56,759 --> 01:13:01,759
♪ I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell ♪
1377
01:13:02,947 --> 01:13:07,947
♪ Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table ♪
1378
01:13:08,712 --> 01:13:12,160
♪ and I drank and sang and passed in the stable ♪
1379
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:13,160
There's one in this corner
1380
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:14,903
back over in here if I can get it.
1381
01:13:16,101 --> 01:13:20,684
(relaxed country guitar, violin music)
1382
01:13:23,510 --> 01:13:24,393
We got a fish.
1383
01:13:31,260 --> 01:13:34,917
But to catch a fish like this, yeah,
1384
01:13:34,917 --> 01:13:36,623
this is the cure for cabin fever.
1385
01:13:40,210 --> 01:13:41,043
How was that?
1386
01:13:53,710 --> 01:13:55,430
Without water quality, you don't have fish
1387
01:13:55,430 --> 01:13:57,660
and they have to have a food chain, they have to eat.
1388
01:13:57,660 --> 01:13:59,270
So everything we can do to keep
1389
01:13:59,270 --> 01:14:01,560
the contaminants away from the clean water,
1390
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,180
we have to do it and it starts right here.
1391
01:14:04,180 --> 01:14:06,860
It starts at home, it starts with Thompson Run.
1392
01:14:06,860 --> 01:14:08,620
Good morning.
How are you?
1393
01:14:08,620 --> 01:14:10,420
Look at me. What do you think?
1394
01:14:10,420 --> 01:14:11,253
You look good.
1395
01:14:12,450 --> 01:14:14,680
There are trees growing in the diversion.
1396
01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:16,030
They have to be taken out of there
1397
01:14:16,030 --> 01:14:18,810
so that we can start the reconstruction of the dike.
1398
01:14:18,810 --> 01:14:22,122
If you can't see what has to be done, then it won't happen.
1399
01:14:22,122 --> 01:14:24,460
You're amazing, Joe.
A lot better than it was.
1400
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:28,063
Do it this way, this is a dream come true to me.
1401
01:14:29,401 --> 01:14:30,550
That's a piece of the slag
1402
01:14:30,550 --> 01:14:32,961
right from out of the old iron furnace.
1403
01:14:32,961 --> 01:14:33,890
You can see it now.
1404
01:14:33,890 --> 01:14:36,948
It is mind-boggling what can happen when you have
1405
01:14:36,948 --> 01:14:40,840
a group pull together to do a job with the right equipment.
1406
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,140
There we go there, there's the man right here.
1407
01:14:43,140 --> 01:14:45,350
This was a tangled mass of brush
1408
01:14:45,350 --> 01:14:48,050
that turned into a lovely area.
1409
01:14:48,050 --> 01:14:51,620
What a wonderful day it has been, how much we accomplished.
1410
01:14:51,620 --> 01:14:54,260
Stage three will be to get the machinery
1411
01:14:54,260 --> 01:14:57,574
to the site to further reconstruct the dike.
1412
01:14:57,574 --> 01:14:59,350
There's a lot of work to be done and if I have
1413
01:14:59,350 --> 01:15:02,567
to be that driving force along with TU, so be it.
1414
01:15:06,780 --> 01:15:09,660
My father does wear his heart on his sleeve.
1415
01:15:09,660 --> 01:15:14,420
He treats everyone like family and he has so many friends.
1416
01:15:14,420 --> 01:15:16,510
His house, it's Grand Central Station.
1417
01:15:16,510 --> 01:15:18,980
Oh my god, anybody comes in now.
1418
01:15:18,980 --> 01:15:19,910
It's always been fun.
1419
01:15:19,910 --> 01:15:22,230
At any given time, people are at the door,
1420
01:15:22,230 --> 01:15:25,860
the phone's ringing nonstop, somebody stops in for a visit,
1421
01:15:25,860 --> 01:15:28,040
somebody comes for happy hour.
1422
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:29,840
It's happy hour time.
1423
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:31,610
I've said to him before,
1424
01:15:31,610 --> 01:15:34,740
if you judge a person's character by the company
1425
01:15:34,740 --> 01:15:37,963
they keep, then he is the wealthiest man I know.
1426
01:15:41,140 --> 01:15:42,133
That's a filet.
1427
01:15:44,130 --> 01:15:47,823
We will turn these six minutes on a side.
1428
01:15:49,420 --> 01:15:51,070
You want 'em medium-rare.
1429
01:15:51,070 --> 01:15:53,680
Every year the night before the first day of trout season,
1430
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:58,280
a group of us have a major happy hour and a major feast.
1431
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:01,590
Everybody come out to the dining room table.
1432
01:16:01,590 --> 01:16:05,220
This is the kickoff of the 2016 season.
1433
01:16:05,220 --> 01:16:07,951
Here's to the opening day of trout season.
1434
01:16:07,951 --> 01:16:10,190
Take a bite of the strawberries
1435
01:16:10,190 --> 01:16:14,013
and the whipped cream and then chug with the champagne.
1436
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:18,513
Yeah.
1437
01:16:19,620 --> 01:16:22,380
We start in The Corner Room at eight o'clock
1438
01:16:22,380 --> 01:16:25,413
and have breakfast when everybody else is fishing.
1439
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:31,213
Two pancakes and a side of bacon.
1440
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,030
And then we go to The Bald Eagle.
1441
01:16:35,030 --> 01:16:37,600
The randoms are popping off I imagine.
1442
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,930
And I've got a secret weapon I bought yesterday.
1443
01:16:39,930 --> 01:16:41,410
Ooh boy.
What do you think?
1444
01:16:41,410 --> 01:16:45,150
Which one?
I like that one.
1445
01:16:45,150 --> 01:16:46,380
I've been fishing every year
1446
01:16:46,380 --> 01:16:48,310
the first day since I was six years old.
1447
01:16:48,310 --> 01:16:50,483
This is my 81st opening day.
1448
01:16:51,496 --> 01:16:54,729
♪ Oh, the time the ship broke down ♪
1449
01:16:54,729 --> 01:16:58,761
♪ You told me I was meek ♪
1450
01:16:58,761 --> 01:17:03,344
♪ You rise above misty circles and see ♪
1451
01:17:05,450 --> 01:17:07,413
Ah, there's my first hit.
1452
01:17:12,648 --> 01:17:14,917
♪ And the sky was a monster ♪
1453
01:17:14,917 --> 01:17:17,160
You taking a rest?
I wouldn't miss
1454
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:19,352
this opportunity to see you fish.
1455
01:17:19,352 --> 01:17:21,602
Oh, true to heaven.
1456
01:17:22,632 --> 01:17:25,882
(relaxed guitar music)
1457
01:17:26,874 --> 01:17:31,874
♪ As here it's cutthroat with a lean lens ♪
1458
01:17:33,718 --> 01:17:37,609
♪ And dancing a torrent of little woes ♪
1459
01:17:37,609 --> 01:17:41,921
That was fun, we caught some fish, okay.
1460
01:17:41,921 --> 01:17:43,060
Come on, children.
1461
01:17:43,060 --> 01:17:44,840
We fish only a couple hours because
1462
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:48,110
we have to be to the Hot Dog House by noon.
1463
01:17:48,110 --> 01:17:50,310
I'm ready for the Hot Dog House.
1464
01:17:50,310 --> 01:17:53,600
Everybody then ordered a Mr. Hot Dog with everything.
1465
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:55,800
Jeff, he wimped out and had a salad.
1466
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:57,070
Now we fish Spring Creek
1467
01:17:57,070 --> 01:17:59,223
and now we wish parts of the Bald Eagle.
1468
01:18:02,180 --> 01:18:04,990
{\an8}Andy has a fish.
A thing of beauty.
1469
01:18:04,990 --> 01:18:05,823
{\an8}Thanks, Joe.
1470
01:18:09,270 --> 01:18:12,450
{\an8}You're enjoying a cigar, where's Joe at?
1471
01:18:12,450 --> 01:18:15,863
{\an8}Right down yonder and he keeps catching fish.
1472
01:18:17,090 --> 01:18:18,737
He's always the last one off the stream.
1473
01:18:18,737 --> 01:18:21,237
The oldest and the last one.
1474
01:18:23,170 --> 01:18:26,133
I've had 81 opening days of fishing.
1475
01:18:28,100 --> 01:18:30,026
81 years.
1476
01:18:30,026 --> 01:18:31,820
Some of these trees aren't 81 years.
1477
01:18:31,820 --> 01:18:34,623
I don't know of one dog that's 81 years old.
1478
01:18:36,620 --> 01:18:39,160
I don't think there's a chicken that's 81 years old.
1479
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,120
Oh, I think there's a chicken.
1480
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:42,053
Show me, Ron.
1481
01:18:43,380 --> 01:18:44,996
You know what time it is?
1482
01:18:44,996 --> 01:18:47,370
Oh, it's a quarter to 6:00, we've gotta go home.
1483
01:18:47,370 --> 01:18:48,370
This is frightening.
1484
01:18:49,610 --> 01:18:51,063
To Jim's we must go.
1485
01:18:52,121 --> 01:18:54,090
Give me a break, all right.
1486
01:18:54,090 --> 01:18:55,627
Here's to tradition.
Here's to tradition.
1487
01:18:55,627 --> 01:18:57,690
Here's to Joe.
Our Joe.
1488
01:18:57,690 --> 01:18:59,110
Gracious host.
1489
01:18:59,110 --> 01:19:00,610
All of us are gonna struggle
1490
01:19:01,458 --> 01:19:04,560
and work to survive until 2017.
1491
01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:07,280
All right.
Oh yeah.
1492
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:09,663
The streams of PA are waiting for you.
1493
01:19:10,877 --> 01:19:12,005
Okay.
Thank you very much.
1494
01:19:12,005 --> 01:19:12,838
Good, good.
I appreciate that.
1495
01:19:12,838 --> 01:19:14,393
{\an8}God love your heart, you bet.
1496
01:19:16,480 --> 01:19:18,700
{\an8}That is so cool, I'm very proud of you.
1497
01:19:18,700 --> 01:19:20,370
Thank you very much.
You're doing a great job.
1498
01:19:20,370 --> 01:19:21,660
Appreciate it.
1499
01:19:21,660 --> 01:19:23,184
And I don't want you to get hurt.
1500
01:19:23,184 --> 01:19:24,027
No.
Okay.
1501
01:19:24,027 --> 01:19:25,623
Yeah, me neither.
1502
01:19:25,623 --> 01:19:27,850
We need to get a group shot.
Yeah.
1503
01:19:27,850 --> 01:19:29,763
As you know, one thing I love to do,
1504
01:19:29,763 --> 01:19:32,583
it's gonna be tradition, we're gonna start now,
1505
01:19:33,430 --> 01:19:34,880
I want to night fish tonight.
1506
01:19:36,241 --> 01:19:37,600
Jesus.
No, I'm serious.
1507
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:39,330
I want to night fish.
1508
01:19:39,330 --> 01:19:40,320
You are serious?
1509
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,050
Yeah, we are going back and I know there's
1510
01:19:43,050 --> 01:19:46,506
one spot in Spring Creek I think we can take fish.
1511
01:19:46,506 --> 01:19:47,980
What about the cookers, remember?
1512
01:19:47,980 --> 01:19:51,330
It worked, oh no, oh my god, we're all exhausted.
1513
01:19:51,330 --> 01:19:53,750
Why are we? Please no.
1514
01:19:53,750 --> 01:19:55,550
This is our first day of trout season.
1515
01:19:55,550 --> 01:19:58,900
It is not so much fishing, it's just bringing together
1516
01:19:58,900 --> 01:20:00,840
at the different eating establishments
1517
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:03,380
as well as fun on the stream.
You were convincing.
1518
01:20:03,380 --> 01:20:06,892
Yeah, hey Tom, I might get an actor or anything.
1519
01:20:06,892 --> 01:20:08,102
Yeah.
Yeah.
1520
01:20:08,102 --> 01:20:11,102
(soft guitar music)
1521
01:20:14,030 --> 01:20:15,860
If people today had to go through
1522
01:20:15,860 --> 01:20:18,490
what you did to figure out how to catch fish,
1523
01:20:18,490 --> 01:20:20,600
I don't think people would be doing it today.
1524
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:23,530
If you let failure stop you,
1525
01:20:23,530 --> 01:20:25,200
you would have stopped long ago.
1526
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:26,660
Yeah, that's what makes it fun.
1527
01:20:26,660 --> 01:20:28,870
Those fish are not gonna beat me.
1528
01:20:28,870 --> 01:20:29,890
No matter what happens,
1529
01:20:29,890 --> 01:20:33,430
I'm gonna beat these fish, I'm gonna make it happen.
1530
01:20:33,430 --> 01:20:35,513
Like the Clint Eastwood movie where
1531
01:20:35,513 --> 01:20:38,163
the Indian said "I'm going to endeavor to persevere."
1532
01:20:40,334 --> 01:20:42,363
Ooh trout, you're dead.
1533
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:45,983
You poor a little fellows.
1534
01:20:48,410 --> 01:20:50,883
The Green Drake is a magnificent insect.
1535
01:20:52,133 --> 01:20:53,090
One of the largest mayflies
1536
01:20:53,090 --> 01:20:55,203
we have here in Central Pennsylvania.
1537
01:20:56,970 --> 01:20:59,280
It's an indicator of your water quality
1538
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,690
and the Green Drake is adverse to pollution.
1539
01:21:02,690 --> 01:21:04,620
A lot of streams don't have Green Drakes
1540
01:21:04,620 --> 01:21:07,210
because they don't have the water quality.
1541
01:21:07,210 --> 01:21:09,830
The Green Drake hatch happens once a year.
1542
01:21:09,830 --> 01:21:12,350
I call it the Memorial Day Classic.
1543
01:21:12,350 --> 01:21:14,090
It's hard to predict when it's gonna happen
1544
01:21:14,090 --> 01:21:16,140
and not all fly fishermen are successful.
1545
01:21:17,850 --> 01:21:20,370
It's such a phenomenon because the life cycle
1546
01:21:20,370 --> 01:21:23,510
of that fly really stirs the fish into activity.
1547
01:21:23,510 --> 01:21:26,699
It's one of my favorite times to fish.
1548
01:21:26,699 --> 01:21:29,866
(upbeat guitar music)
1549
01:21:36,848 --> 01:21:38,347
A mighty stream, isn't it?
1550
01:21:38,347 --> 01:21:39,180
Isn't it beautiful?
It's absolutely,
1551
01:21:39,180 --> 01:21:40,393
what a clean stretch.
1552
01:21:45,331 --> 01:21:48,520
You know what I've heard you say? "Look up."
1553
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:50,193
Isn't that beautiful?
That's awesome.
1554
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:54,444
That's pretty good, it's gonna get more.
1555
01:21:54,444 --> 01:21:55,644
They're gonna get lower.
1556
01:22:03,890 --> 01:22:07,265
♪ Take that back on ♪
1557
01:22:07,265 --> 01:22:09,651
♪ Laying near the lights ♪
1558
01:22:09,651 --> 01:22:13,968
♪ For the nights of the northern lodges ♪
1559
01:22:13,968 --> 01:22:16,640
♪ There's a border road ♪
1560
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:18,040
Nice fish, Humph.
1561
01:22:18,981 --> 01:22:19,843
That's a wild brown.
1562
01:22:21,043 --> 01:22:25,919
♪ And the neighborly sleeping in a coffin ♪
1563
01:22:25,919 --> 01:22:27,813
If only we could all do this at 87.
1564
01:22:27,813 --> 01:22:29,330
With Green Drakes, stand in
1565
01:22:29,330 --> 01:22:32,343
this stream and throw flies like that.
1566
01:22:32,343 --> 01:22:34,230
Yeah.
Life is good, Humph.
1567
01:22:34,230 --> 01:22:35,123
Life is good.
1568
01:22:37,530 --> 01:22:40,640
You can follow the hatch but it's also great when
1569
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,290
you hit the hatch in its later period of production.
1570
01:22:44,290 --> 01:22:46,340
we just happened to really nail it right.
1571
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,523
Welcome to the Green Drake hatch.
1572
01:22:52,273 --> 01:22:53,490
♪ He's a legend ♪
1573
01:22:53,490 --> 01:22:56,480
This is what we have been waiting for.
1574
01:22:56,480 --> 01:23:00,083
This is when the flies are in profusion
1575
01:23:00,083 --> 01:23:02,133
and the fish are ready to feed.
1576
01:23:03,898 --> 01:23:05,598
It's an exciting time of the year.
1577
01:23:09,350 --> 01:23:11,631
I'm going out and catching fish.
1578
01:23:11,631 --> 01:23:14,881
♪ Would you promise me ♪
1579
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:19,741
We don't have enough stuff to bust 'em
1580
01:23:19,741 --> 01:23:21,713
but I think I might be able to take one underneath.
1581
01:23:23,470 --> 01:23:25,741
But let's just get one good fish.
1582
01:23:25,741 --> 01:23:28,483
♪ And it learns to live ♪
1583
01:23:28,483 --> 01:23:33,483
♪ Hold the keys to a Cupid fire she will never find ♪
1584
01:23:33,970 --> 01:23:35,240
There we go.
Nice.
1585
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:37,413
There we go, this is good, this is what I need.
1586
01:23:38,350 --> 01:23:39,373
That's awesome.
1587
01:23:40,630 --> 01:23:41,480
I'm turning it.
1588
01:23:44,118 --> 01:23:47,201
(relaxed rock music)
1589
01:23:48,780 --> 01:23:51,130
Yeah.
That a boy, Humph.
1590
01:23:51,130 --> 01:23:52,123
Yeah, I'll take him.
1591
01:23:57,408 --> 01:23:59,553
♪ Set sail ♪
1592
01:23:59,553 --> 01:24:02,683
A nice 15, 16 inch trout took the fly.
1593
01:24:04,490 --> 01:24:07,713
Yeah baby, that's all I needed was one fish.
1594
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,873
Green Drakes flying, fish on.
1595
01:24:12,751 --> 01:24:15,810
It's a good night, Humph.
It's a great night.
1596
01:24:15,810 --> 01:24:18,103
What could we ask for that was any better than that?
1597
01:24:18,103 --> 01:24:20,073
That was as good as it gets I think.
1598
01:24:21,142 --> 01:24:23,330
As you grow older, you appreciate what you have more
1599
01:24:23,330 --> 01:24:27,810
and I think trout streams are fountains of youth.
1600
01:24:27,810 --> 01:24:30,503
It's that challenge to try to take that fish.
1601
01:24:31,580 --> 01:24:33,723
It's always a learning situation.
1602
01:24:34,810 --> 01:24:36,420
I will never lose that excitement
1603
01:24:36,420 --> 01:24:38,200
of going on a trout stream.
1604
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:42,200
Every day on the stream is an adventure and as a teacher,
1605
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:45,150
if I've passed some good things onto other people,
1606
01:24:45,150 --> 01:24:47,070
not only the how-to, the nuts
1607
01:24:47,070 --> 01:24:49,040
and the bolts of the fly fishing game
1608
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:51,620
but an appreciation of nature itself,
1609
01:24:51,620 --> 01:24:53,700
that's what it's all about.
1610
01:24:53,700 --> 01:24:57,033
(upbeat ensemble music)
1611
01:25:05,841 --> 01:25:10,841
♪ I ain't trading my youth for no suit and jacket ♪
1612
01:25:17,513 --> 01:25:22,455
♪ I ain't giving my freedom for your money and status ♪
1613
01:25:22,455 --> 01:25:24,077
The person that
1614
01:25:24,077 --> 01:25:26,332
made this possible was Joe Humphreys.
1615
01:25:26,332 --> 01:25:27,187
{\an8}There is gonna be a day that's gonna
1616
01:25:27,187 --> 01:25:30,077
{\an8}have a Green Drake hatch on Spring Creek.
1617
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,947
You can never anticipate which way your life will take you,
1618
01:25:33,947 --> 01:25:36,650
the people you will meet along the way,
1619
01:25:36,650 --> 01:25:38,033
{\an8}the journeys you'll go on.
1620
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:42,400
You have to follow your passions in life.
1621
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,398
That's what it's all about.
1622
01:25:44,398 --> 01:25:46,131
♪ Growing old too quickly ♪
1623
01:25:46,131 --> 01:25:48,897
♪ And I don't wanna go, so how am I supposed ♪
1624
01:25:48,897 --> 01:25:53,897
♪ To slow it down so I can figure out who I am ♪
1625
01:25:54,040 --> 01:25:55,975
Through my life of fly fishing,
1626
01:25:55,975 --> 01:25:57,150
there were a culmination of moments that
1627
01:25:57,150 --> 01:26:00,450
cast memories such as a cast in a thicket,
1628
01:26:00,450 --> 01:26:02,980
a jumble of brush on a mountain stream.
1629
01:26:02,980 --> 01:26:05,970
When a cast seems impossible, then it happens.
1630
01:26:05,970 --> 01:26:09,440
To see the fly land and bounce jauntily for a brief moment,
1631
01:26:09,440 --> 01:26:11,800
then disappear as a brook trout inhales it,
1632
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:13,820
this is the moment down deep in my gut,
1633
01:26:13,820 --> 01:26:16,480
a feeling of satisfaction, joy and contentment.
1634
01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:19,660
The melody continues to play through my heart and soul.
1635
01:26:19,660 --> 01:26:21,250
It's orchestrated by the water
1636
01:26:21,250 --> 01:26:23,100
and the wind moving the hemlock past.
1637
01:26:24,020 --> 01:26:28,413
Right now age-wise, I'm 17, 18, I'm having a blast.
1638
01:26:31,340 --> 01:26:32,263
Beautiful casting.
1639
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:34,870
Nicely done.
I know.
1640
01:26:36,345 --> 01:26:38,160
When you were four years old, this was how we did it.
1641
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:39,770
Good, good.
1642
01:26:39,770 --> 01:26:41,237
{\an8}Beautiful cast.
1643
01:26:41,237 --> 01:26:42,670
{\an8}She is following the wonderful
1644
01:26:42,670 --> 01:26:45,123
casting tradition of all of you.
1645
01:26:48,660 --> 01:26:49,770
How many tickets you got in there?
1646
01:26:49,770 --> 01:26:51,513
I use this cut a lot when I fly.
1647
01:26:54,590 --> 01:26:57,210
We are going to land where there's unbelievable
1648
01:26:57,210 --> 01:27:00,525
ground trout that will be the new fly rod record.
1649
01:27:00,525 --> 01:27:02,160
♪ We're all gonna die one day ♪
1650
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:05,072
We learned from last year, didn't we?
1651
01:27:05,072 --> 01:27:07,885
♪ Some of us surviving, some of us just roaming ♪
1652
01:27:07,885 --> 01:27:10,698
♪ Some of us just hoping the world will move more slowly ♪
1653
01:27:10,698 --> 01:27:15,698
♪ Some of us alive but we're all gonna die one day ♪
1654
01:27:16,627 --> 01:27:19,440
♪ Some of us surviving, some of us just roaming ♪
1655
01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:21,920
♪ Some of us just hoping the world will move more slowly ♪
1656
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,217
25 degrees at 4:00 in the morning.
1657
01:27:24,217 --> 01:27:27,307
You can't be a wimp and be a night fisherman.
1658
01:27:28,810 --> 01:27:29,643
Good fish.
1659
01:27:31,700 --> 01:27:33,074
Look at the camera.
1660
01:27:33,074 --> 01:27:35,380
♪ Growing old too quickly ♪
1661
01:27:35,380 --> 01:27:37,319
That was a big fish.
1662
01:27:37,319 --> 01:27:40,128
♪ Slow it down so I can figure out who I am ♪
1663
01:27:40,128 --> 01:27:43,060
(birds cawing)
1664
01:27:43,060 --> 01:27:46,340
These waters are filled with miles of endless memories.
1665
01:27:46,340 --> 01:27:50,260
They're my childhood, my family, my career
1666
01:27:50,260 --> 01:27:53,000
and my inspiration to pick up a fly rod.
1667
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:54,690
The Springs, they're my heart,
1668
01:27:54,690 --> 01:27:58,470
their waters the course of my life story and the trout
1669
01:27:58,470 --> 01:28:02,390
the friends I want to see flourish for a lifetime to come.
1670
01:28:34,250 --> 01:28:38,167
{\an8}(relaxed country guitar music)
1671
01:29:38,515 --> 01:29:40,719
Hold on here.
1672
01:29:40,719 --> 01:29:42,145
We're gonna do these last two.
Okay.
1673
01:29:42,145 --> 01:29:43,478
Okay?
1674
01:29:45,467 --> 01:29:47,440
"I had the honor of fishing on Pennsylvania
1675
01:29:47,440 --> 01:29:50,270
Creek with Joe about nine or 10 years ago.
1676
01:29:50,270 --> 01:29:53,350
This was a birthday gift from my dear wife.
1677
01:29:53,350 --> 01:29:57,240
I spent a couple of days with a Jedi, Joe as I called him.
1678
01:29:57,240 --> 01:30:00,080
He not only taught me something about nymph fishing but
1679
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:04,510
he shared his soul with the love he has for creeks, streams,
1680
01:30:04,510 --> 01:30:08,300
rivers, fish and the conservation of all of the above.
1681
01:30:08,300 --> 01:30:11,470
It was a masterclass in living life in harmony,
1682
01:30:11,470 --> 01:30:14,470
respect and humility for one's environment.
1683
01:30:14,470 --> 01:30:18,000
I came away from this retreat cleansed and invigorated
1684
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:20,820
and had learned a couple of fly fishing techniques.
1685
01:30:20,820 --> 01:30:23,020
I shall never forget him and that weekend.
1686
01:30:23,020 --> 01:30:26,550
Oh, and we caught some beautiful trout as well,
1687
01:30:26,550 --> 01:30:29,787
all released back to those crystal waters."
1688
01:30:31,060 --> 01:30:32,826
Who said that?
1689
01:30:32,826 --> 01:30:34,410
Who said this?
1690
01:30:34,410 --> 01:30:35,693
Liam Neeson.
1691
01:30:36,700 --> 01:30:37,833
Oh, did he?
1692
01:30:40,930 --> 01:30:43,256
Liam Neeson said this?
1693
01:30:43,256 --> 01:30:46,150
Oh, he's such a wonderful man.
1694
01:30:46,150 --> 01:30:47,970
I taught him to tie a fly
1695
01:30:47,970 --> 01:30:51,493
and he tied a beautiful dry fly, a collector's item.
1696
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:57,120
Jedi Joe, (exhaling) that caught me right in here.
1697
01:30:58,530 --> 01:31:02,404
Then wiggle and then it comes down, okay?
1698
01:31:02,404 --> 01:31:04,561
(relaxed country guitar music)
1699
01:31:04,561 --> 01:31:07,394
(drone swooshing)
1700
01:31:08,686 --> 01:31:10,421
What the hell was that?
1701
01:31:10,421 --> 01:31:11,977
(people laughing)
1702
01:31:11,977 --> 01:31:13,850
It was a mill, we grew up in a mill.
1703
01:31:13,850 --> 01:31:16,430
That's the excuse for my odd behavior.
1704
01:31:16,430 --> 01:31:19,650
Don't you think she sounds, you sound like dad.
1705
01:31:19,650 --> 01:31:20,910
We do have similar
1706
01:31:20,910 --> 01:31:23,760
facial expressions, I must say.
1707
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:27,090
You can go up the stairs up there and pet the bear.
1708
01:31:27,090 --> 01:31:29,700
I wrestled a bear about that size.
1709
01:31:29,700 --> 01:31:32,250
He hooked my leg and I couldn't get out.
1710
01:31:32,250 --> 01:31:34,150
Joe Humphreys here.
Denny and I
1711
01:31:34,150 --> 01:31:37,213
had a good day in the stream, I hooked two trout.
1712
01:31:37,213 --> 01:31:38,450
I don't know what he was doing
1713
01:31:38,450 --> 01:31:40,300
in there but I hooked that beaver.
1714
01:31:40,300 --> 01:31:44,084
I don't know too many guys that can hook land beavers
1715
01:31:44,084 --> 01:31:48,320
and so I can put that on my resume as a beaver catcher.
1716
01:31:49,493 --> 01:31:51,870
A nationally-known expert on the art
1717
01:31:51,870 --> 01:31:54,760
of fly fishing, a gold medalist in our hearts,
1718
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:59,670
ladies and gentlemen, fisherman Joe Humphreys.
1719
01:31:59,670 --> 01:32:02,420
(crowd cheering)
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