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Ken Schramm

Ken Schramm
2010 Pithon-Paille Chinon. Went through two bottles of this recently one with pork tenderloin, grilled veggies, bread and a Michigan salad, once with pizza, and it was great both times lots of florality contrasting with dried blood and red berries. Light on its feet, gained a little weight on day two, so this has some road ahead. High B, low A.

2009 Bourdy Rouge. Also with grilled pork ribs this time. Fresh, lively, and the acid punch held up to the pork nicely. Slurpable. Also a high B, I liked it a lot, but was not as well received by the family (with the ribs) as

2009 Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Cote du Py Vielle Vignes. More tannic backbone, more fruit, better structure and balance, higher volume aromatics, and stood up to the fat better. A-.

All of these were really pleasant accompaniments to the babbling Boardman River and some gorgeous sunsets. If I had been as good an angler as a guide, it would have been a flawless week. We got into the Hexes on the Manistee, but I gave my brother my best spot, and he banged two 18"+ fish, and I got shut out. Oh well.
 
originally posted by Ken Schramm:
Streamside bottles2010 Pithon-Paille Chinon. Went through two bottles of this recently one with pork tenderloin, grilled veggies, bread and a Michigan salad, once with pizza, and it was great both times lots of florality contrasting with dried blood and red berries. Light on its feet, gained a little weight on day two, so this has some road ahead. High B, low A.

2009 Bourdy Rouge. Also with grilled pork ribs this time. Fresh, lively, and the acid punch held up to the pork nicely. Slurpable. Also a high B, I liked it a lot, but was not as well received by the family (with the ribs) as

2009 Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Cote du Py Vielle Vignes. More tannic backbone, more fruit, better structure and balance, higher volume aromatics, and stood up to the fat better. A-.

All of these were really pleasant accompaniments to the babbling Boardman River and some gorgeous sunsets. If I had been as good an angler as a guide, it would have been a flawless week. We got into the Hexes on the Manistee, but I gave my brother my best spot, and he banged two 18"+ fish, and I got shut out. Oh well.
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That sounds like a nice way to spend a week.
 
originally posted by Ken Schramm:
If I had been as good an angler as a guide, it would have been a flawless week. We got into the Hexes on the Manistee, but I gave my brother my best spot, and he banged two 18"+ fish, and I got shut out. Oh well.
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Nice wines, Ken, but I'm curious about this paragraph. The Hex hatch is long over, but Hex patterns still work in July? I love fishing the Manistee (and Little Manistee) and Pere Marquette, but I've always used attractor patterns and terrestrials for summer fishing, hence my interest I'm your Hex reference.

Mark Lipton
 
Exactly. We haven't had a winter to match that one in my life. Everything was ~three weeks behind schedule this year, and the hatches got nutty. We still had Eph sub when we should have been a week into the sulfurs, and there were Brown Drake spinners, Hex spinners and Hex duns all on the water at the same time at the beginning of the week. Kind of surreal.
 
Same craziness happened with the California fungi in the spring. Lions lay down with lambs, porcini fruited with spring Amanitas and chanterelles.

My favorite mayfly news this year.
 
Crazy season in the Catskills as well. The trout fishing is till going strong on all rivers when normally it would be just the tailwaters by the end of June. Consistent sulphur and BWO hatches happening as I type. Sadly I haven't been out since May.
 
Ah, so. All becomes clear. It may also explain the profusion of fly fishermen on the Yellowstone, Gallatin, Green and Snake rivers this vacation. Too bad we fidn't have room for our Ross this trip.

Mark Lipton
 
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