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Article: Fishing St. Joe a Perfect, Crowd-Free Vacation
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- September 26, 2002
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TROUT BUMS AT LARGE
I never took my kids to Disneyland. Instead, we often vacationed
near the great trout streams of the American west. I took some guff
from the kids over the years, but nothing a sensitive trout bum
couldn't handle. As you know by now, faithful reader, I am not a
crowd kind of guy, and going to visit the Big Mouse was not in the
cards.
My wife, Liz, and I just returned from our annual week in Idaho,
fishing the St Joe River. I fish and she sits in the river on a lawn
chair reading. We have wine and snacks precisely at 5 p.m., followed
by a fine meal then a little more late evening dry-fly fishing. This