We are truly fortunate and thankful to live in Western NY where we have great trout streams and rivers.  In addition to this we also have world class steelhead and lake run brown trout fisheries.  Yesterday I got out with a few of my friends to try our luck for some Lake Ontario steelheads and browns.  The conditions were a bit tenuous with quite a bit of snow and rain with very cold temperatures.  The first Lake Ontario trib we tried was running too high and cold.  The fish were just not responding to our flies.  After a few hours we decided to try a tailwater to Lake Ontario which would have some better water conditions.  It did and as a group we were able to land 6 large lake run browns.  Although the browns do not fight like steelheads, they are beautiful and do put up a good fight.  It was a nice way to start my Thanksgiving holiday.