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Stories by Uncle Joe - the "Original Troutnut"

By Troutnut on January 22nd, 2016, 5:19 pm
I've added a new feature article to the site, a pair of fly fishing stories written by my late Great Uncle, Joseph Drasler, along with a brief introduction to this remarkable man.

Growing up chasing farm pond bass in northern Missouri, I never saw a trout until about age twelve, when Uncle Joe took my family on a tour of Rocky Mountain National Park and we stopped briefly to stare into a crystal-clear spring creek as a couple of lively twelve-inchers dashed for cover. Maybe that was the beginning of the grip trout streams have on my imagination.

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WbranchJanuary 22nd, 2016, 5:41 pm
York & Starlight PA

Posts: 2733		Looks like a Shakespeare "Wonder Rod" and a Martin automatic fly reel.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
WiflyfisherJanuary 22nd, 2016, 5:58 pm
Wisconsin

Posts: 663		I still have my first Shakespeare Wonder Rod and my Dad's old creel. We used to fill it with wet grass and put the trout in it. How times have changed.

Jason, I guess you're back in Alaska now.
John S.
https://WiFlyFisher.com
HalJanuary 22nd, 2016, 6:08 pm
Myrtle Beach

Posts: 2		Great stories,Your uncle was also at home with pen in hand,very well written.I have my Dads Wonder rod am thinking of bringing it out of retirement.
OldredbarnJanuary 23rd, 2016, 1:03 pm
Novi, MI

Posts: 2608
In two of the larger dams located just above this spot, we observed in passing, fish are disturbing the surface of the water, feeding on a new hatch of mayflies. We will try our luck there first after we deposit our beer in the cold water, cache our lunch in a tree limb, away from bugs and ants, and hang up our jackets and knapsacks.


Got to love this guy!

As they say, "The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree!"

Tell mom thanks from us "other" TroutNuts.

Spence

as Dickens aptly stated, “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."


Nice! The original Mr Lore.
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively

"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
PaulRobertsJanuary 26th, 2016, 2:41 pm
Colorado

Posts: 1776		Nice. Fun read.
MartinlfJanuary 29th, 2016, 7:22 pm
Moderator
Palmyra PA

Posts: 3233		What a great bit of history. I love Uncle Joe's style, which is so typical of the time period. His story about Colorado reminded me of a trip I took in the 1970's, fishing the beaverdams near Snowmass with a buddy who lived in Evergreen. I'll bet many of us have a fishing uncle. Mind was Uncle John. He taught me a great many things about the pursuit of finned creatures. Thanks, Jason.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell

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