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| Lastchance | December 17th, 2010, 7:40 am | |
| Portage, PA Posts: 437 | This requires a one letter reply. I realize I'm asking a lot because brevity is a word foreign to this board. Please, no long winded, esoteric, essays about nothing. A small creek with fish in it is called: A.)a rivulet B.)a rill C.)a small creek with fish in it Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night? Keep Christ in Christmas and have a great New Year. Your Friend, Bruce P.S. Once written: "If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling (business) card then you don't have a clear idea." | |
| Gutcutter | December 17th, 2010, 8:35 am | |
 Posts: 470 | D.) - none of the above. it is called a "crick" | |
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| Oldredbarn | December 17th, 2010, 12:20 pm | |
 Posts: 2608 | He isn't talking about me or you is he...Paul? :) I kind of agree with Tony but I'll just call it a nursery. Merry Christmas...Right back at you! Spence the Muted | |
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| JAD | December 17th, 2010, 12:41 pm | |
 Posts: 362 | I'll take a guess and say. D-- It"s home to the fish. Merry Christmas John | |
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| Motrout | December 17th, 2010, 1:35 pm | |
 | Well, you see, a small stream with trout in it can have a variety of names. If you're in Vermont, New Hampshire, or the Adirondacks, it's a brook, in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, it's called a kill, in southern Missouri it's a "crik" or a "branch", in some parts of the east it's a run. Now which is the best, now that's a hard one. Personally I prefer "creek" because it's generic and most people will know what you mean when you say that, but if you ask my friend in New York, he'd be upset and say that is not a refined enough name and that all small streams shall be referred to as brooks, and if you ask my friend in the southern part of Missouri, they'll tell me to stop talking like one a them northerner-it's a crik for goodness sakes, or a branch if you have to be too awful particular about it. And the same people would refer to a very small stream (one that doesn't always hold water)as a wash. And I almost forgot that in some parts of northern lake country, they call the rivers that connect lakes narrows. Okay, that's all I've got I think. I was gonna see how long I could make that go (since a short answer was asked for), but I think that's it. | |
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| PaulRoberts | December 17th, 2010, 1:36 pm | |
 Posts: 1776 | OK I get it...I think... A rill by definition could not contain trout. A rivulet might. But...C is ...redundant. Oh, I could go on alright. A meager sampling: E, F, G,…: …, river, stream, creek, brook, beck, headwater, reach, spring, seep, feed, tributary, stem, nursery water, flow, current, spate, torrent, cascade, falls, riffle, pool, cut, pocket, basin, head, tail, broken, flat, slick, ‘nervous’ water, ... and on and on…. Let there be no shortage of creative descriptors. But, agreed: if they are used more than once (not tongue in cheek), they should at least be accurate. Comprende. | |
| Lastchance | December 17th, 2010, 2:35 pm | |
| Portage, PA Posts: 437 | Just playing. Gees I can't even tick you guys off. Bruce | |
| PaulRoberts | December 18th, 2010, 6:56 am | |
Posts: 1776 | Now why would you want to do that? | |
| Lastchance | December 18th, 2010, 8:35 am | |
| Portage, PA Posts: 437 | I don't really want to make you mad just thought I might start a humorous exchange. Bruce | |
| Bippie | December 19th, 2010, 6:36 pm | |
| Altoona, PA Posts: 25 | Well..... I'm originally from Portage PA and we always called it a "creek" (pronounced "crick"). ;-) | |
| Oldredbarn | December 20th, 2010, 1:55 pm | |
Posts: 2608 | humorous exchange My grandmother (she grew up in the mountains of Maryland) was stammering one time and trying her damnest to remember its name and blurted out, "You know what it's called Spence! That big ditch out west. What's it's name?" She was trying to remember Grande Canyon. This has become a standing family joke many, many years after she has passed...No one can bring up the Grande Canyon with out someone chiming in..."You know! That big ditch out west!" So, here's my thoughts...If you can actually straddle it with a foot on each side and the damn thing's running between your legs, and it has trout in it, we shall call it a crick (creek)...No trout...It's just a damn ditch. Spence | |
| "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 | ||
| Lastchance | December 20th, 2010, 3:39 pm | |
| Portage, PA Posts: 437 | Yep. It's crick where I come from. Bruce I also studied ballogy in high school. Youns's is the plural of youns. | |
| Bippie | December 20th, 2010, 6:06 pm | |
| Altoona, PA Posts: 25 | I concur with Lastchance! | |
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