YEEEEEEHAAAAAAA I finally had a 30 hook up day on the river

They'll be hundreds on the river tomorrow!  Good to see your getting into those advanced  skill stages of massive hook-up days, Clint.  Just change your inches to pounds and you'll be as truthful as some of the other forums. Of course, you can then start a thread complaining  about all the cookie cutter fish and how real men would fish a week at 30 below for the chance at one  "real fish".  Take some black or brown wooly  buggers  and fish your fly rod, it'll help technique when the steelies are in. Thanks for the report.
 
 

Just got back to CT from a couple of days in SR country. Did the lawn and trimming the first day and on the second had to power wash the house- Mould was gettin outa hand on the siding and I havent done it in a coupla years. Must be kinda nutty but just cant bring myself to let the place go just cause I use it as a camp.
   Had every intention of bringing my Lab Charlie to the river for a swim and perhaps some bass fishing but it was about 90 degrees when I got done yesterday so just turned on the trucks AC and bolted for CT.
  Saw a car here and there in the fishermans parking areas  and saw that the water was Summer low too. Give you guys fishing in this 'snake weather' a lot of credit.     Think about it- only a few weeks till the early Shark report start coming in --
   BTW- saw a number of Hen Turkeys here and there in SR  country and not one single poult-same is happening here in CT the field across the street had a rare sighting of 3 hens the other day with ONE poult between them. These are places where Turkey flocks were in abundance not so long ago. NO more---- one here and one there-----

Pa- sorry to hear your area has been hit too.
 As an avid Turkey hunter with gun and bow must admit to not having harvested one in over 2 years. Not that I didnt have some come in but there were so few  that  passing seemed the prudent thing to do.. Simply cant bring myself to harvest a bird that is practically endangered in my areas. Kinda  believe that leaving breed stock is much more important than filling a tag.
  They aint like fishies- ya cant catch and release--just call them in and look---
  We had no mast crop here last year--NONE  and that has had an effect but the weather patterns on young poults both here and in SR country have clearly taken severe tolls in recent years.
  Both here in CT and at my place in NY  flocks were commonplace a few years ago- now seeing singles is nowhere near as common as seein flocks used to be. Out back in Ct there used to be a flock of over 2 dozen birds and another of about half a dozen--in Ny my backyard was home to a flock of about a dozen and a half every AM and about half dozen each afternoon- Now - an occasional single or two on irregular days in both places---sad commentary.

Agree on the Hen moratorium.
  Used to be able to go out the back door with a coffee inte AM before and during Tom season and hear no less than 5 on the roost. Every day for years.
 Not one single gobble in 2 years. Same woods too- no new construction- hundreds of total acres most of which is protected property-and I was the only Turkey hunter in there on a small portion of it
 Walked a few hundred acres this fall and saw no scratching whatsoever. Lack of Mast had lot to do with that but -NOTHING ???..
  They are still there and an occasional track or sighting proves it but the numbers are very low indeed.
   BTW- sorry bout the hijack Clint

Trout bum,one of these days I'm going to try my new and never used switch rod on the Big Lehigh for Smallies,Trout,or whatever and that fly of yours will be on the line :)
Hey,in two months we will be talking Salmon again and I'll really give that switch a workout then.

In an effort to continue the hijack--Here in overpopulated Central Ct its gettin more and more like the 'big woods'.  Was  a Moose a coupla days ago bout 8 miles North of me and last week there was a Bear walking around folks yards-again- just down the street. Got Beavers in the lake across the street too. Can also hear Yotes most any night yippin on the ridge out back. A Confirmed Cougar got road killed bout 20 miles West of here early this year too.
  As a kit we had none of this stuff- kinda really like the change.
  A friend looked out the back window last year and there was a Buffalo standing there bout a mile from here- got loose from someplace- they caught him and took him back- heard the Buffalo is still around the house though.

Yea -its kinda neat to have stuff around-cept my wife goin nuts about the Bear, She runs the Lab every day out back in the woods and fields around the lake and Beaver swamp. Now she wants to carry a gun with her.
  Been hearing rumors bout Salmon that BITE- wow -would that ever change things--LOL.