Neighbor tells me I don't even need to be plowed this weekend in Pulaski/Richland.
More inside painting and then apple tree trimming and some outside house keeping chores- perhaps even a wet line on Monday.
Here in Ct despite some snow  spots here and there the worms were out in my yard tonight.
 
 Spring is springing

Night crawlers will come out anywhere that it is snow free and the temperature is above 40.  We're not seeing that here yet, but for Finger Lakes 'bows, crawlers aren't really the better bait until well into the spawning, and that could be the end of April this year.  My lack of eggs means Tuesday AM will be Power bait or glo bugs, at least until Sutton opens.  
 
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If I were fishing either brookies or hatchery browns, I would like that a lot.  In the finger lakes you are only allowed one point, and a lot of the water is crowded for anything other than a short chuck and duck 8 foot drift.  And the 'bows are in spawning, and they are very partial to eggs early, although I know folks who like minnies, wood grubs, even cocktail onions have been used in the past.  Once the water warms up a little , crawlers come on, and flies start to work also, especially as the crowds thin out.
 
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Its about the tradition Tuna.
I went to the Finger lakes rainbow run trout season opener in 1956  as a 5 year old.
 
There were no year round tribs back then and it was a sleepless night  followed by the long ride with the older kids and adult.
Caught my first (a dropback) the next year when one ate my plunked crawler while I had fallen asleep.
Then I needed to catch one on purpose to redeem myself.
Took a couple of years to do it.
 
 
 
 

Flow cast on waterline is 750 through Sunday... something tells me they oughtta open some gates up now... like right now... river is going vertical on the pineville gauge with natural runoff... that reservoir needs to start draining!!!

HT,
 
I don't consider the FL 'bows stream trout.  They average 2-3 lbs, have to be 15" to keep, used to be 3 limit, now 1, I';ve cauight them up to 8 lbs and seen the over 10.  I go for the Naples Derby opening day, as 2B says tradition.  Maybe I'll get down one or two more times there, but more likely to just stay home with the late LO run really just taking off.  Stream trout starts late April with the Hendricksons.
 
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Smaller tribs have broken through the ice and brownish green in color... Tuesday in the 50's is gonna do some damage... res must be low as they are still keeping the flow at 750

That's all I can think clint... the early spring funk should be starting up.... or maybe I'm just saying that to make myself feel better since I don't have much time to fish :(

been another grey and rainy day here.. big creeks and mighty hudson are high and muddy.. low lying flood watch ..  some of the headwaters though gotta be fishable on 4-1 .. I'm quite sure a few lunker butter belly browns will fall to tradition.. I wouldn't mind seeing what those catt or berkshire streams fish.. Sawkill and green river (both I call brooks) were my early spots.. Gotta stay high..
 
Local weather looks like cool and rainy.. I will be busy with house work until a little sun dries the mud so I can play in the yard and the mighty Hudson lets me scout the islands with the yak..
Going to be a boring few weeks for me, unless I get a itch for the SR.. Who knows..
 

That high wind will pull a lot of water out of the pack, less coming down to blow out the streams!
 
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Well today I pulled a 4 track tractor , a D-9 dozer and a haul truck out of our MUDDY landfill . It's plenty sloppy here . I'm dumping 300 tons of lime dust down hoping to sop some of the mud up enough to take the 4- track tractor and scraper out there.
I hate MUD season !!!!

I took a ride this afternoon to check the conditions on a number of reservoir outlet streams.  The conditions are very good considering we had 2-4 inches of rain since Saturday.  Plan on hitting one of my favorite spots at first light.  I'll be nice to feel a thump and a headshake on the end of my line after this brutally long winter.

Sunny and cool.  I went up after work and did not even get a head shake.  Things are drying up a bit.  I see the first peak of grass in the yard and the drive is not as sloppy.

Stellar day out side. Still wicked muddy but the wind is light and the sun bright so it is slowly drying up. Working in a tee shirt sure feels great and hope it don't get to hot too quick

A nice day for the opener of trout season.  Not much to report other than the water is extremely cold and the fish are lethargic.  When I arrived at my favorite spot around 6:30AM I found it occupied by six other fishermen.  I hooked one fish but lost him after a brief encounter.  Close enough to see that he was a fat, healthy two year old brown. 
There is still a lot of ice on the reservoir about a mile up river from my spot and the spill way is running hard.  This week's weather should bring temps up and hopefully turn the fish on.  Three hours in ankle deep water and the legs didn't want to work.  Plan to hit the same area tomorrow.  Hopefully the results will be better.