Archive : Adirondacks

  I am not sure who named the AuSable river but if I were to take an educated guess it was probably a French explorer (Samuel de Champlain) or trapper who was facinated by the sandy deposits that line the bottom of that river.  The French translation of Au Sable is “sand”. ...

Our tally after a day of fishing the Salmon River was four chubs.  Three anglers landed a total of four chubs!  Readers of this blog know that candidly I post the good, as well as the lousy.  I’d like to provide a glowing report after our one day trip to the Salmon River.  But, we didn’t...

After many years of talking about it I finally made it to West Canada Creek this week.  My father-in-law and I left late Thursday morning to make our way down to Trenton Falls from our vacation spot in Indian Lake NY.  When we got to West Canada Creek (about 10am) 3 guys were coming off the stream. ...

On the first day of my vacation I decided to go check out my faithful fishing site just below the Lake Abanakee Dam.  This is typically a very good site for small but feisty stocked rainbow trout.  Upon arriving at the Dam I found that they were letting out quite a bit of water.  This created less...

Well I decided to spend my last morning of vacation fishing the Indian River.  I had a number of hits from Rainbows but was only able to pull in the two pictured below.  I caught one on a stimulator and the other on a beadhead nymph.  They were nice little fish and fought hard.  I would like to spend...

Once again my father-in-law and I made our way up to the Adirondacks for our family Summer vacation and once again we called on Rich Garfield from Fly Fish the Adirondacksto guide us.  This year he took us to the Salmon River.  Most of you probably know the Salmon River as the river that is just north...

Well I decided to go down the end of road from where we are staying, near Indian Lake NY, to the Cedar River.  I have tried fishing this river a couple times without any success.  I thought I would give the ol’ Sirloin a try.  On my second cast I watched a Brown go after it pause and then hit...

[TABLE=5] Last night we had the privilege to fish with Rich Garfield from Fly Fish The Adirondacks.  I hired Rich to take me out about 6 years ago and never forgot the experience.  Rich didn’t disappoint last night. My father-in-law, Al, and I got to Wilmington NY (Near Lake Placid) at 3:30pm...

[TABLE=4] I am here in the Central Adirondacks, Indian Lake, for the 4th of July vacation.  I decided to fish the Indian River today.  The NYS DEC stocks this river so it is full of 12″ rainbows.  Just below the Lake Abanakee Dam  there are quite a few of these well educated rainbows.  I...