![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Le-Mouching-Fly-fishingbeaverkill-junction-pool.jpg?resize=350%2C233&ssl=1\")
Refuse to go fishing with Sister Karol is the equivalent of a Capital Crime, to the crown or country and whatever else…<\/p>\n“Fleche, it seems that there are fantastic hatches of “March Browns” up in the Catskills on the Beaverkill! Hurry up, get into your waders and I’ll pick you up in a few minutes.”<\/p>\n
Refuse to go fishing with Sister Karol is the equivalent of a Capital Crime, to the crown or country and whatever else…<\/p>\n
an unpardonable fault of mannrs. When she beat on my door I was ready for the two hours on the road and lots of laughs on our way to Roscoe (the village on edge of the mythic Beaverkill).<\/p>\n
The Beaverkill truly is a magnificent river! And to think that in the early 1900’s it was a dump for all the paper factories in the area. There was not a single fish, not a single insect, for miles around. The river was DEAD… as dead as a bucket of ashes.<\/p>\n
Then along comes the honorable Mr. Rockefeller who starts to buy miles of land along the river and inland with the objective, among others, of giving the river a little peace and letting the valley return to it’s lost beauty; less than a dozen years later the river was once more full of trout and today fly fishermen from \u00a0the world over come to cast their flys in these waters.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Le-mouching-fly-fishingGerardMagella.jpg?resize=222%2C288&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n
Sister Karol stopped her car not far from “Junction Pool” and without wasting time set her special “Super God” fly right behind a little rock in front of a ripple and paf! it disappeared… snatched by a very large something.<\/p>\n
Sister Karol has two arms, I assure you, because in less time that it takes to say her benediction a superb wild trout was in her net.<\/p>\n
“Hey Fleche what do you say to trout with almonds for lunch?”<\/p>\n
“What a question, my sister. You know my love for these beasts… perfectly cooked!”<\/p>\n
Karol took the trout in her hands and kneeled on the ground and started to recite something in latin that resembled a prayer so that the gods would pardon the sacrifice of such a beautiful animal.<\/p>\n
And then, I’ll be hanged, but I was sure that just before Karol bestowed the final blow that sent the animal to fish heaven, I clearly heard the trout respond: “Amen!”<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks after this troubling moment I found myself at a wonderfully prepared dinner at my good friend Gracie M’s house, recounting the story. She looked me in the eyes with a little mocking smile and said: “Fleche, you must be the only person in New York who doesn’t know that Sister Karol, above and beyond all of her other qualities, is also a master ventriloquist.”![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Le-Mouching-Fly-fishingPeopleMag.jpg?resize=570%2C840&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Fleche, it seems that there are fantastic hatches of “March Browns” up in the Catskills on the Beaverkill! Hurry up, get into your waders and I’ll pick you up in a few minutes.” Refuse to go fishing with Sister Karol is the equivalent of a Capital Crime, to the crown or country and whatever else… an unpardonable fault of mannrs. When she beat on my door I was ready for the two hours on the road and lots of laughs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15854,15851,15849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-mouching","category-fresh","category-nature"],"yoast_head":"\n