Archive for November, 2009

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to reflect upon and appreciate the many blessings that enrich our life.  We live in a beautiful region, in a free country and enjoy public access to numerous fisheries.  Upstate New York boasts a superb  fishery; lake run fish,  wild trout, warm water  fish and every...

Thursday’s rain pushed a little more water into our local tributaries.  Sometimes, just a little raise in the water level and a slight change of color will help move in fresh fish from Lake Ontario.  I left work early Friday afternoon to scout a small residential creek, West of Rochester.  The...

There are still a couple salmon hanging around, the weather is warm (61 degrees), the water is low but the fish are still active.  Yesterday afternoon I decided to venture out to Irondequoit Creek to fish for a couple hours.  There were a number of fishermen looking for the remaining salmon that made...

With such a sunny forecast  I invited my father to fish with me this afternoon.  My father taught me to fish and I feel fortunate that we are able to fish together.  Our goal was to enjoy the warmer day, get outside and perhaps find a fish or two.  We went to a local Lake Ontario Tributary where...

This Veteran’s Day I decided to take my 5 month old into the woods for a nice hike.  He fits snugly in the chest pack  and we scouted a couple of smaller tribs.  The water continues to drop and the few browns and odd steelhead are even more jittery.    We really could use a steady rain.  A...

Upstate New York could use a soaking rain to help move more fish into the Tributaries of Lake Ontario.  Salmon carcasses now litter rocks and the browns have started to move into the lower stretches of creeks.  Most browns can’t go very far w/ the low water.  There are also a few steelhead...

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