Feb212007
Five Minutes AwardsSPRINGTIME AT PETERSBURG CREEK

The obvious difference between potential prowler and sportsman that lie in the five-weight I carried, was both comical and effective. I envisioned traipsing into Arnold and Maria’s yard, waving to the gathered elite, and holding up my trusty Sage for the rushing security detail to view. “Just getting up to some of that freestone around the corner, folks.” I’d pull a Bud from my vest, offer it to George Lucas and say something snappy like, “You know, ‘Howard The Duck’ was my favorite work of yours,” before ambling off through the rhododendron bushes.

But, as it was, there was no one except the occasional housecleaner or caretaker — who exhibited no interest in my interloping. Soon I began to abandon my drives to the open spaces and concentrate on residential fisheries entirely, scouted for subdivisions as often as I searched for hatches.

I continued to fish in this manner for my remaining time in the Valley—nearly four years with only cursory trips to Silver Creek, the region’s major attraction. While Barons and Countesses were flying from the old country to fish “The Creek’s” fabled slick-water trico hatches, I was pulling my waders off my condo deck, slipping between houses a few hundred yards away.

Jeff Galbraith is the editor of Frequency, an excellent snowboarding magazine that he appreciates even more now that he’s finished serving federal time for trespassing.

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