Sorry to hear the weather knocked you out of the box, Jack. I was looking forward to some reports.  Have your granddaughter bake you a consolation cake....I've picked some god awful days to go to the river this year, but it seems to be more miss than hit **** near everywhere. You'll just have to sit in the shanty with Rich and pull in some lakers for excitement. If you've never been to Lake George, it's a beautiful place.
I wasn't joking, it may be a very fun trip.

since it's about the weather , a friend just returned from a 2 week Alberta Canada whitetail hunting trip.. He goes every year and has some impressive bone hanging on his walls but sometimes it's not always shooting.. Often times we discuss the weather, this time we discussed his physical appearance.. His face was actually scabbed from wind burn..
The temps he hunted in were  -25 ... Crazy to me but in his opinion worth the trip.. 
It really I guess, is what we chose to endure in the weather..
Enjoy the heat wave today & tomorrow, hope travel is safe for all , the Arctic blast is not far off..
Peace & Tuna
 

This is from Sept. at 13,000'. The wind was gusting over 60 and both Nancy and I  got bad windburn. Took a few weeks of Aloe Vera before I lost the alligator skin.  We had climbed 3,000 feet to get over this pass and drop down into a basin with a few golden trout lakes, but we headed back down. The lake behind me is devoid of fish. Too high. We met some European climbers that wanted to summit an adjacent peak, but they headed down, too.  A little cold on the SR is relatively tame. I'm much more adventurous on the trail than in the water, though. My suicidal wading days are over. I did a dance in some pretty nasty, waste deep water last Sat, trying to get around a tree. F' that, I turned around and went back. I already have Reynaud's syndrome in my left foot from walking out with a wet, frozen foot from a leaking wader. I walked 1/2 mile on a foot with zero feeling in it. Yet , that doesn't deter me in the least from still  going in the winter. I just try not to fall in.
Safe travels to all!!!!!   Hope some of you get into them good this weekend.

Batten down the hatches, we are supposed to get 2-4" of rain tonight into tomorrow in southeastern NY.  Thank God it's not snow. 
Safe travels for those of you headed out for Turkey Day.

About an inch or so here today so that make 2 to 3 on the ground.  Ground it totally covered.   Supposed to go from snow to rain and then back.   With warmer weather in the forecast  (above freezing ) early next week,  don't know if we will see a bump down, but maybe.

Looking very doubtful for 500- can hope it stays 750-900 release.
Hope the Genny is good to you, Lucky. Unless you decide to go elsewhere- then good luck there!  We had a couple of inches, now raining.

Absolutely poured last night.  No snow though.   Lots of run off from 750 to 1150.  

Not much more  precip predicted, cold, and the North Branch has flatlined, so it may stay that way. I hope..... 

Charlie,be carefull out there Fri as it's going to be frigid! The good thing is there will be no run off so the flow should be steady at 750 or hopefully 500.The weekend is going to warm up to low 30's,that'll feel balmy by Sun.

Just plowed out again to get the wife out for midnight shopping,  only had about 6 inches or so but I did not feel like getting up at midnight to do it.  Hopefully it lets up a bit so Charlie and I do not have to dig out a parking spot tomorrow.

From an oh so fishable 650 on Wednesday and a still acceptable 900 on Turkey day, the Genny spiked to over 2000 for my Friday off.  I can't win for losing,  tt is dropping again down to a fishable 1400, but I have  a lot on my plate today, so it looks like I take chance that it keeps dropping through tonight and I can get there tomorrow PM, and then I'm done until after Christmas, by which time we may have walkable water around here.  I think if I want to fish, I have to retire, I just don't get enough time with the job anymore.
 
Good luck to all for the last of fall!
 
L13

Had a long walk in the snow today, and the crowds were there in spots but manageable. Or completely avoidable.  If it'd stay that way I'd think I'd went to heaven.  It's a testament to steelhead how many people think nothing of getting in the water at 0, me included.  Sorry to hear your window of oppurtunity got closed, Lucky.

Gerry where were those pictures taken,I see a very high fence in the background.Those are healthy looking deer.

Well it is back to colder and snowing, got about 2 inches or so last night.  Had a tough week at work so I am taking today off to relax.   I am going to tie some flies, clean my line and reel and get ready for tomorrow.

Hahhh, you ain't kidding jack. About a week and a half ago we got 1-3 inches for about 5 days straight :)

Gerry nice deer. Hope you get one of em