Category: Trout
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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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My Fly Rods
Originally Published March 8th 2018 for trip 2017-18, Edited November 3rd 2020 This trip I brought too many rods for trout fishing. I carried a 5/6 switch and a 5 wt nymph rod that I never used so my Winston 9 foot 6 weight BXIII did all the work. The Winston was good in the…
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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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Villa Manihuales
Villa Manihuales is found at the confluence of the Rio Niriguao and the Rio Manihuales. Villa Manihuales has a population of 3000 inhabitants. The primary income-generating activities of the area are mining, ecotourism, sport fishing, secondary activities include logging, dairy, farming, and livestock. The town is located along the Carretera Austral which is also called…
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Time Flies
Sometimes I feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew. This amount of gear is crazy! I am bringing 4 rods; a 13.5 in switch rod, a Loomis 10 weight 9 ft, a Winston Boron III 6 weight 9 ft, and a Winston Air 5 weight 9 ft, and if I am…
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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…
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The Ranch
Fishing holy waters, it was a good day until the weather turned rainy and cold. Yesterday and today we have sun and as the day grows the temperature warms. No fish rising or biting yesterday at the honey hole, but today is warmer, so perhaps it will pick up. The wildlife I have seen this…
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Coyhaique
I arrived in Coyhaique Sunday night. Coyhaique is about halfway down the Chilean Patagonia Carretera Austral road. The weather here tonight is windy, cool to cold, and wet. The forecast says sunny and warm next week if you are a believer. The population is about 60,000 not including tourists, it is in the state of…
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La Dificultad
Before the steel bridge was put up across the Rio Futaleufu in La Dificultad the way to get across the river was by an old fashioned rope and wood suspension bridge. It was just wide enough for the ox carts to travel in and out of the commune; there was no other way to cross…
A River To Fish 