waDerboy 
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/10/15 16:11:48
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Good info.
I would add that it is tiny (both width and length,not counting the frog water) in comparison to the SR.
It gets hammered equally hard so the fish tend to get stale real early.
I would stick with more nuetral colors or small bright ones.
Browns tend to like nymphs and small creamy egg patterns.
Good luck.
People are talking about the oak on the western ny board.
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dtrobe
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/10/28 21:35:56
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Well it looks like all of my "boys" backed out on me so I will most likely be going up by myself from Tuesday-Friday(1-4.) If anyone wants to get together and show a new guy the ropes, let me know.
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/10/29 07:58:23
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don't neglect the smaller tribs in that area. If they have water, they have fish.
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dtrobe
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/10/30 22:38:24
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How are the rivers and tribs off the north/east end of the Salmon River/Redfield Reservoir?
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Lucky13
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/04 07:13:55
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East Branch and North Branch of Salmon River and their tribs are isolated from the LO system by the reservoirs and Salmon River Falls, therefore are inland trout streams and are now closed for the winter, until Arpil 1, when you will need a snowmobile to get to them. They are pretty good waters for smaller brooktrout, some stocked rainbows and browns, and mix of public and private water, and in many cases, pretty good hikes to get to the river. Some tribs, such as Prince Brook have lots of small rainbows, others are mainly brookies. I would suggest using May 1 as an opening day target, and asking around to insure that the snowmobile clubs have run the magnet truck over the roads in places like Little John, or carrying 5 or 6 spare tires. And make sure you have a good bug net, jersey gloves, industrial strength Off, and leg weights so the black flies can't gang up and carry you back home, as these suckers make the 'Daks hatch look like a minor inconvenience. There are pretty good PFR maps on the DEC website for Oswego and Lewis Counties, and some of the PFR easements extend into the posted lands (lower Mad RIver, Beaver Brook), but remember that these easements only allow you to walk the banks and fish, not drive to the river, or hunt in the fall, so be prepared for some long strolls. It is not unusual to catch 50+ brook trout in a morning, but you'll be lucky to have 5 that make 7". L13
post edited by Lucky13 - 2011/11/04 07:23:14
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waDerboy
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/04 07:39:08
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Who in their right mind would fish for stunted brookies with the SR available?
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draketrutta
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/04 07:54:16
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ORIGINAL: Lucky13
and asking around to insure that the snowmobile clubs have run the magnet truck over the roads in places like Little John, or carrying 5 or 6 spare tires. splain pleaze......
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/04 07:58:57
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I never knew that NY shuts down their inland streams through the late fall/winter.
that sucks..
at least Pennsyltucky lets you fish all winter - only closes select trout approved waters for 6 weeks (March-mid April).
no bugs,snakes,bushwhacking,or humidity in da cold months...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/04 21:11:03
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dont know the state list, but i do know rivers that are open for trout in the winter in western catskills...
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/04 21:12:15
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for the small waters that lucky is referring to; i would love to hit them one of these days if i ever get the time... remeber; size doesnt always matter 
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/05 07:19:02
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ORIGINAL: dimebrite
remeber; size doesnt always matter
let go of my eggo . . . errr . . ego.. 
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Lucky13
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RE: Help for a New Guy!
2011/11/05 12:17:46
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ORIGINAL: draketrutta
ORIGINAL: Lucky13
and asking around to insure that the snowmobile clubs have run the magnet truck over the roads in places like Little John, or carrying 5 or 6 spare tires.
splain pleaze......
Many of the roads on the Tug Hill are seasonal, and some are incorporated into the snowmobile trails for the winter. Snowmobiles have little metal projections on the tracks that often break off and will be littering the dirt roads. These eat tires, I've changed flats on the hill and up in the Moose River Plains and pulled these bits of metal out of the flat. The snowmobile association goes out on all the trails where they can run a truck once the snow is gone and the road surface hardens up, and they have a big magnet mounted that picks up a lot of this stuff, and the number of flats goes way down after that. This should not be a big issue on the paved roads, but a lot of the secondary ones are impassable before this gets done. L13
post edited by Lucky13 - 2011/11/05 12:18:09
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