Modern Nymphing and Competitive Fly Fishing… OH MY!
I like catching fish, all fish. I prefer big fish, but I absolutely do not discriminate against the dinkers or little fish. I like wild, colorful trout and I like ugly fish. Sometimes, the ugly fish pull the hardest. The ugliness of a fish is highly subjective I understand, but
Early Summer on The Creek
Each year, peaking in the early summer, I enjoy nothing so much as fly fishing on small streams for wild trout. It is, in fact, the most enjoyable form of angling. Within five minutes drive of my cabin is ten miles of catch-and-release trout stream that is loaded with wild
A Change of Pace
Spring trout fishing around Central New York continues to be very good. Temperatures have been holding pretty stable on most streams, hovering and swaying somewhere in high 50’s to low 60’s. Water flows are a little on the low side, but not bad. Bug activity and hatches increase on a
Spring Slow To Heat Up, But Small Stream Fishing Is Not
We all know that Spring, here in Upstate New York, can be a little bit, or a lot of bit, slow to arrive from year to year. Well… This year has been one of those years. While we’re hopeful for the start of Spring with seasonably warmer temperatures arriving