It was supposed to rain off and on and Sun. afternoon was supposed to blow 30+ from the N.  Instead it stayed out of the SSE at around 7-8 and the rain amounted to a teacup full if I took every drop off my campsite.  The Hudson made some good memories for you HT, those fish are going out to make some more. We spent the whole winter training for  doing 5 days and 55 miles in a tougher section of the Grand Canyon (the last day we climbed out with the canyon full of swirling clouds and lightening hits up on the rim)  and we came back wishing to move out to Page, AZ. or Kanab, Utah.  Phenomenal landscapes!  I could chase stripers in Lake Powell. Nah, we're staying around here.  There's  little spots with small time windows  that I click off each year that produce nice fish if the conditions are right. Crappies, walleyes, carp, smallmouth, largemouth, rainbows, brookies; all came through this year in some degree. Hard to beat. And situated between the coast and the SR.  The striper fishing is going to be GOOD this year, and maybe, just maybe, we'll get  better runs. I hope you show some pictures of a screen lit up  solid a few miles out from the estuary, HT.  Hopefully, Jack's  2 weeks will make up for last year in spades. It'll be here very shortly.....  

hot tuna
Just a heads up ,
The Olcott pro/am tournament on the lake produced a LOT of very large salmon and salmon of all size last weekend.
The east end of the lake is still struggling . Lakers are the main boxes .

The weather was nice so I gave stripers a last shot sat & sun and came up empty.
Time to move on . I did finally get my garden planted:)

Hey,at least we know there are Salmon SOMEWHERE on the big O,I believe it's common for them to be west this time of year and then migrate east as the summer gets here.Is that correct?
Anyone catching browns close in at this time or is that over by now?

HT I'll be looking for you end of Sept ,first week of Oct.,you going to share a drift with me?
Charlie I'm counting on you to provide some company.
Here it is only May and I'm starting to get revved up!!!

No trips south or west USA this year so see you guys then .
Depending on how the fall goes determines when I pull the boat . It may be October.
Now I'm getting excited to catch some monster lakers soon on the Great Lake adventures:)

Clint if ya can use a few deer fly's I'll be happy to send some yinz way. lol  
 
Mercy-sake, them things can bite!!!!
 
This afternoon the flying ants started, not that they intentionally bite, but after gettin hit with deer fly's, the ant's merely landing on me, had me jumping and flailing. 
 
My front yard is 300 feet to the road and the wife says the "zig-zag" and "s" patterns look a little weird in the freshly mowed grass.
 
 
A quick up-date on my swimming pool.........  stupid pool!!!
 
 
Tight lines and good times to all yinz all.

bigbear2012
how bad are the black flies?

I think it depends on where you are.  I was in Amboy Center at the end of April and they were swarming me, although they were not biting then.  We were in Pulaski two weeks ago and they  were nearly non-existent, but the same afternoon in Altmar, we got chewed.  Up on the top of the hill, they were bad and biting.  But they do burn off quickly on the Tug.  Not so much further up in the 'daks, I cancelled my trip for next week as it would be suicide to go back in the plains now, they will be so thick.

Well I  entered the 3rd annual Pickerel derby with my new fishing buddy Willy. Man this guy likes to fish. We really got them good today, but did not place. I did not have a leader and lost a few doozies due to bad line. biggest was 2.3# and just over 25. Lunker for the tourney was almost 3#, and I think the 4 fish total was almost 11# was the winner. I only had 8# and will had just over 10#
 

Nice catch. Clint!  Pickerel are one of my favorites. I grew up fishing for them and still do. I fish  a few ponds in Vt. that have them.  Live bait?
 
It was a nice night to start the wet wading season on the Hudson. After a day of pouring and finishing concrete it was very nice to stand in cool water feeling the tug of some smallies. Have a great weekend, everyone.

Pickerel are bony ,we used to grind them and make fish patties.Most of my Chainsides fishing was in NJ many years ago with my Dad and his crew.Hey Fitchy you ever hear of Swartswood,Hopatcong,Jefferson and Bear pond?Those were some of the places we would fish way back....lots of good memories.

We used to anchor over by the boy scout camp and catch slab size 'gills,remember catching huge crappie and yellow perch up to 18" at Bear Pond.While fishing there one time we saw a bear swimming in that lake,guess the name Bear Pond was appropriate for that water!Some day I'm going to take aride over there just for the memories.

hot tuna
Thank you to all men women and yes young men for the ultimate sacrifice of freedom.
My hats off and a 21 gun salute !!!
What a great weather day to be free

Many people in his country have no idea how lucky they are to be here ! End of message.

Water looks fine there and after the brutally hot weekend it cooled of nice. Too bad I have not eaten solid food in two days and the plumbing is working overtime.  It's raining here, but man do we need it. I am quite behind on the garden now because of my illness, but it will get done.  Hopefully I can hitch a ide with you RJ. Only did the lake thing once 20 plus years ago......
 

Rained off an on all day, hard at times. Cleared a bit in the late afternoon. Easily over an inch came down. Garden is in for the most part and the grass has started to grow already.

Yuo, yesterday was a reservoir filler... Altmar had steady rain most of the day with a few gully washers. River downtown pulaski was up quite a bit and dark with just runoff

Lucky this was the best storm to date for saturation. An all day event with downpours mixxed in. Have fun dry flying