Just the day before I had picked up a flint arrowhead as I walked the edge of a cornfield along the Delaware River in the rain.
This day I latched onto an 18-inch smallmouth – considerably larger than the Woodland-period point – and just as exciting. The wet, plowed land had made the black arrowhead stand out from the surrounding earth; the crystal clear Delaware made the olive hued smallmouth just as conspicuous as it rolled under the surface.
Here in the Pocono section of the Delaware, you can get excited by either take.
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