Archive : New York

Each Spring I host a long weekend trip to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  I offer this trip through The Canandaigua Lake Chapter of Trout Unlimited and to any interested friends.  It is an affordable three night trip, a mere three hour drive from Rochester.  Each year we have a good mix of...

My schedule has been packed and I haven’t fished much these few weeks.  To remedy this, I invited a friend (Brian) to join me fishing Irondequoit Creek after dinner.  It’s great to have a decent trout stream within minutes of your house!  There is a solid combination of wild, holdover...

Two friends from North Carolina drove up to spend a week fishing the Delaware River System.  Both are semi-retired and enjoy superb Appalachian Trout and Tennessee Tailwater fishing.  One just returned from Chile and it seems like they enjoy exotic  angling trips annually.  It wasn’t a coincidence...

To cap off Spring Break I decided to make a day trip to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  I invited a friend to join me.  Greg never previously fished the WBD.  During the drive I enthusiastically described the nirvana attributes of the WBD during late April (wadable water conditions, opportunistic...

About a week ago I made a quick evening trip to my local fishing hole, Irondequoit Creek.  It was a weekend of quick changing temperatures and higher flows.  The fish seemed content not to feed.  I was able to land a small brown on a territorial strike on a streamer but the fishing was slow. This...

After church on Sunday, I made a motivated drive to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  I was motivated to fish because I liked the conditions.  Over the past week, the cubic feet per second (cfs) discharge from Cannonsville Reservoir dropped below 1,000.  Just three days ago, the cfs was in...

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Suckers are a common sight in our creeks and rivers these days.  Their spawn activity deposits plenty of edible eggs.  Smallmouth bass, walleye, carp, brown trout from the lake, resident brown trout and steelhead all capitalize on this seasonal feast.  Northern pike also follow the suckers, looking...

This Saturday Craig and I had a chance to steal away a couple hours and fish Irondequoit Creek.  In spite of the 80 degree weather, we went with the intent of hooking a couple browns with our eyes peeled for some left over Steelheads.  Craig started off by throwing a white bunny strip at our first...

Lake Ontario and Finger Lake Tributaries now have active spawning steelhead.  Increased water temperatures (over 40 degrees), snowmelt, rainfall, greater daylight and the general approach of Spring coincide with steelhead on redds.  These aggressive fish vigorously chase each other, drive away lesser...