Category: Catskills
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Esopus
It was quite an afternoon on the lower Esopus Creek in the Catskills today. I used my light spinning rod with quarter ounce Al’s goldfish lures and had a bit of luck. In the first hour, I pulled out these two beauties. One trout was an 18-inch rainbow and put up a good fight, and…
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West Branch Of The Delaware
I have been taking lessons in trout Spey casting with Wayne at River Of Life in Deposit, New York. My rod is an 11’3″ trout rod built by Robert Meisner that I am finding very difficult to learn how to cast but progress, not perfection. I was out with Wayne on the last day of…
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Trout Stocking on the East Branch of the Delaware April 14, 2018
<p class="has-drop-cap" value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">Saturday, I met up with Lenny Millen, guide and fly fishing casting guru, to help stock the East Branch of the Delaware River with hatchery-raised brown trout. The larger and older trout were electronically tagged by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Fish and Wildlife Tech department…
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Fishing In New York State Reservoir’s
www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/recreation/fishing-brochure.pdf I think it’s a good idea to say something! I have my license, my NYC DEP permit, and it’s April 1st, I can fish. The weather is rainy, temperatures are in the ’40s, there is no sun, it’s not too windy, and the barometer is rising. <p value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">The reservoir canoe…