Browns and Steelhead

Has anybody seen any good Browns lately, and I understand that the steelies have become scarce? What's your feeling on approaches for both?

ORIGINAL: draketrutta

There are browns throughout the river.

There are more steelies than ever before - thanks in part to the lower creel limit on the tribs.

Best bet is to fish after Nov 1....  

Not sure about the more than ever b4---but the #'s are increasing to the old hey days----if only in #'s(not size).Browns? Prob more of a return than ever b4.

Just got back from the river and the first fish I saw roped was a 10lb steelhead, right on to the stringer it went. Looked more like bowseason up there, guys hanging out of trees, climbing on anything they can to try and see fish, full blown snagger season is underway folks, top half is starting to look more like the staircase everyday,sucks!

ORIGINAL: 3fan

Just got back from the river and the first fish I saw roped was a 10lb steelhead, right on to the stringer it went.

 
Darn shame indeed, a fisherman kept a steelhead that he is legally entitled to after it was caught from the waters of a man-made, put & take fishery.
 
Oh the horror !!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

First off, you did not state that the fish was azz-hooked in your initial post.
 
Kill them all? Where did you get that from?
 
The legal daily creel limit for Steelhead is 1. 
 
It is none of my business if a person chooses to keep their daily creel limit.
 
Matter of fact, I could care less if the person kept an azz-hooked Steelie. I'm not the DEC, and I'm not a DEC rat that carries around a cell phone with their 800-TIPP line programmed in it like so I can save every foul hooked fish caught in a man-made, put & take fishery.
 
Some of the Deputy Dogs on the SR make me laugh.
 
Last year, I was in the area of a few DEC wannabes that were berating a couple of guys that kept their fish. I normally mind my own business, but the Deputy Dogs were so persistent that I found it necessary to whack the dime-brite Steelhead I caught and slit it just below the gills so its blood trail will mess up their water and their minds.
 
I normally don't keep the fish. But this year I will make a point to whack and slit a few in your honor.
 
 
 

1-800-SHED-A-TEAR

Ha Ha, I upset a local Poolaskitian... or is it Poolaskian, or PoolasEYEte???
 
Once again cry me a river 3fan, or better yet, cry to the green jackets who ignore the blatent snagging at the Trestle, Ball Park, Town Pool in order to keep the dollars in town. And spare me the BS they are are under-manned.
 
You live next to a MAN-MADE, PUT & TAKE, CASH REGISTER developed solely for ECONOMIC REASONS... Get over it.
 
And yes, I bought a license for $70, and I will legally rope a Steelhead (after I bleed it out) every day I fish if I choose to.
 
Whatcha gonna do Tuff Guy? Chase me back over the NY border?
 
 

Behave Centerpin.

PS- My wife likes to eat Lakebows. I kill one a year.

Oh a big rich guy, Im impressed you can afford a camp in our depressed area, nice job tool box. Another thing I dont live in pulaski, Im an hour south just spend alot of time there and Im glad you know how to use spellcheck,I dont.

Im done dude, cant compete with your big city "edumacation", how foolish I feel. Money might allow you to buy nice rods and camps, but it will never make you a sportsman and my friend you are no sportsman so rope em' up! Oh wait your stuck behind a desk, on saturday.Fish On, well not for you!

Well thats funny bud, but my 14.5 acres has a beautiful trout stream that flows thru my backyard also! The Chenango creek has browns in it though. my biggest is a 24.5 incher on a sulpher and 5wt . To me you have showed your true colors, dont care about the people, the area, or the fishery where your camp is. Hope your lab bites ya cause I still think your a TOOL!

I pay my share in taxes for my camp in NY and I follow all the regs.
 
My problem is that I have no problem speaking the truth, and some folks can't handle the truth - like the fact that the SR is a man-made fishery built solely for economic reasons, and the fact that the DEC ignores 90% of the BS that goes on along that river because the powers that be don't want to put a padlock on their cash register drawer.
 
It will be a cold day in Haydes before I play Deputy Dog like a growing number of joker trib fishermen.
 
I give the Lake Charter Community more respect, at least they are honest about their intentions and their actions.
 

ORIGINAL: 3fan

full blown snagger season is underway folks, top half is starting to look more like the staircase everyday,sucks!

that's why i enjoy myself early on. the reward is much greater in solitude; especially when they are really running. i'll leave the salmon much more than i would take them at this point now...

ya-all sound like a bunch of school girls... shut up and go fishin for cryin out loud... 3 fan if you live an hour away why are you on your pc and not fishin. damm already

ORIGINAL: waDerboy

While you are right in that if anyone legally lands a steelhead, neither you, I or anyone else has no right to badmouth them, you are dead wrong about the creation of the fishery.
You come across like an accountant. Everything is about money.

 
If you can provide information that repudiates the SR Hatchery's main purpose to create and support  a sport fishing industry, I'd love to read it.
 
Look, I'm not knocking the construction or the ongoing operation of the hatchery, I'm just simply stating the primary motivation of it, which is money.
 
Speaking of money & fishing - your chosen profession is?