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Another year another Spring trip to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  This year’s trip included about 14 members from our Canandaigua Trout Unlimited Chapter.  As always everyone had a great time fishing with each other and enjoyed their stay at the West Branch Angler. Every year I think...

Need something to do while you wait for the first hatch of the season?  Go to the Fly Fishing Film Tour in your home town.  It is a series of high energy films about fly fishing.  They are the kind of flims that will make you want to grab your gear and go fishing right after the film.  Our Trout...

On Saturday I decided to go take a look at some of the streams closer to my house.  Most of them have been subjected to heavy farming and runoff and don’t look so hot.  They tend to be very muddy, have lots of algae and have limited bug activity.  From time to time when I am on streams like...

One of our most famous streams in the Rochester NY area is Oatka creek.  It is a beautiful stretch of water that runs for 58 miles through Western NY into the Genesee River.  There is a combination of stocked and wild browns and rainbows that will test your fishing skills even on the best days. I...

I am so very proud.  My oldest daughter reeled this big large mouth bass in today.  We are lucky to have a Town Park pond that is loaded with bass.  My daughter is already asking to go out again.  I hope she keeps her love for fishing.

Since most of the rivers in NY State are overflowing with runoff from rain and melting snow (see picture of Irondequoit Creek below), there is only one thing left to do…Smoke cigars and drink Single Malt Scotch.  Check out my review of Rocky Patel’s Decade Cigar and Balvenie Scotch on Rocky’s...

New York has some of the best Steelhead fishing in the world.  My friend Craig makes this point with the following report from the Salmon River in Upstate NY this past Friday: Fished on Friday and managed to land a beautiful skamania steelie on the swing.  Great fight and a beautiful, well balanced...

As you may have read from earlier posts I took a trip to Montana with my father-in-law back in June.  During that trip we had the pleasure of meeting Tom Brokaw and fly fishing legend Craig Matthews (www.blueribbonflies.com).  The other morning NBC decided to do a segment that featured Yellowstone...

Four more days until I am in Montana.  My father-in-law and I have been planning a trip to the Madison for a number of months.  We have never been to Montana so we are both very excited and are looking forward to the experience.  We are going to stay at a place called the Papoose Creek Lodge.  It...