Meeting Mickey MantleWritten by Aron Wallad
Meeting Mickey MantleMeeting Mickey Mantle would be a dream comes true. A dream realized for Dan on his 38th birthday, when his wife honored him with a week long stay at Yankee Fantasy Camp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dan played with some of Yankee legends: Bobby Murcer, Mickey Rivers, Ron Guidry, Moose Skowron and Catfish Hunter. The games were great and being on same field with some of players he had watched on TV or at Yankee Stadium was mesmerizing. But what made week particularly special was friendship he nurtured with his hero. The Mick even gave Dan a nickname - “Nails” for scrappy, Lenny Dykstra-way that Dan played. While Mickey didn’t play in these games, he did spend a lot of time with all campers. Dan took this time to get to know Mickey. He loved his down to earth quality. He loved his honesty. He loved being around him.
| | The March BrownWritten by Cameron Larsen
Entomologists classify it differently depending on where they are located. For excessively curious, if you are in England you are talking about Rithrogena Germanica, if you are on Battenkill River in Vermont you are talking about Stenonema Vicarium and if you are on Yakima River in Washington you are talking about Rhithrogena morrisoni. Whatever entomologists call it, fly fisherman call it March Brown. Hatching as early as February or as late as June, depending on location and severity of particular winter, it is a big brown mayfly hatch that awakens senses of trout, and rekindles trout fly fisher with their passion. No other mayfly can be quite so anticipated as March Brown. The first major hatch of spring season, it signals end of winter to a fly angler, as much as coming of a local Hickory Farms signals Christmas. The March Brown is one of oldest patterns out there, around since beginning of fly fishing. So it has been that generations of fly angler’s have long awaited dawning of spring, by designing dry fly pattern to fool newly awakened trout.Nymphs: The March Brown Nymph belongs in clinger family of mayfly nymphs. They are found in faster riffles, and can make for great sub-surface fishing in early stages of hatch. There is a March Brown mayfly, that doubles as a great searching pattern as well. Also popular for March Brown hatch is Gold Rib’s Hare’s Ear, and Soft Hackle’s are effective as emerger’s in surface film. As mentioned above March Brown is fairly good sized, use 12-14 nymphs.
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