Summer time fishing adventures

going up to the river next week end...hope for some steelies, but the bassin ain't bad

I've seen reports with pics of seven to eight pound pigs taken.  The UDR could use some rain but any day out is better than being home. 

Pretty much determined to take garden worms and look up some Summer Brookies up around Tug.
 Did it all the time around the farm brooks here in CT as a kid and kinda look forward to it up there.
 Summer was always decent for them. Heck thats when I always fished em in Scotias little brooks and did well so cant think why Tug would be any different.
 Nova Scotia has GREAT Brookie fishing way back in the woods.
  New ground- old phart.
 Hit or miss - fish or not--aint even the point. (although a few would be nice)

RT, a friend of mine went crik hopping a few weeks back and caught nothing but browns up there. Kinda odd. They were apparantently quite abundant though... have fun!!!

And lists where and when they put what in at
http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoors/23298  Oswego County
http://www.des.ny.gov/outdoors/23116  Lewis County

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Don't think the 3-5 inch brookies I've caught on the tug were planted.
Not that there isn't stocking going on but those streams are more than clean and cold enough for brookie repo.
 

Sorry, those links are not working on my computer, but if you work your way through the fishstocking pages on the DEC website, you find where the hatchery trucks went, and those are minly browns.  Go to the headwaters, brookies.  The other pages are through the State Lands interactive mapper, and lands amf forest pages, and you can find the descriptions of state lands.  Intersect with streams and headwaters, brookies.   If it flows and is not posted (or it is state land), it will have brooktrout up there.
 
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Fished the main stem of the Delaware from Callicoon to Damascus this past Saturday.  Fishing was very tough with low water and a high sun.  Water temperature was 68 by mid day.  The hatches that were prolific a few days before were absent.  A few caddis and a couple March Browns but not enough to bring more than a dozen fish to the surface for the entire trip, some of those may have been chubs.  Worked on and caught a small rainbow on a March Brown emerger just after putting in.  Other than a chub that was it for me.  
 
We did see large pods of shad throughout our drift and my buddy did throw dart/flutter spoon combos at them to no avail.  He did manage to take a nice two year old brown on a shad dart, go figure.  He also managed to take a couple of smallies.
 
Summertime conditions in the first week of May is not a good thing, we need rain!!! 

Jack,  Reports are that shad are up in the East and West Branch of the Delaware already.  Some of the roe shad we saw had good size to them. 
 

Let us know how you do clint fished the tournament only on saturday and only managed one little guy. Found fish on the bottom but tight lipped, in two weeks it will be game on for sure, had 55 fish days last year.




 

Ahhhhh- budget is over for this year- As Budget Commitee Chair  have been nutso for a while- we managed a tax increase of only .29 of a mill- bout 22 dollars on the average house. Started out looking at 2.5 mills- slashed and burned- and got a smaller leaner Govt. In a budget of well over 200 mil that was a victory. Feelin good about it.
 NOW with a whole week off time to get up and mow the lawn veg out with the Lab and do a bit of fishing---
 Meetings and fights start again next week- lol.
 Cant wait to move into the new house in a coupla months and resign. Retirement ??
 Different town- more possibilities----------

Trevor good for you man... maybe i'll see you around if youre up for a whole week.

Drew-Love the water but if the fish don't cooperate it makes for a long unproductive day.  Would have preferred to start farther upstream around Hankins and Kellam's Bridge but the guides thought because it was Saturday (weekend) that too many boats and wade fishermen would be hitting that stretch of water. 
I may take a ride over to the Housatonic later this week.  Haven't decided where, either Bull's Bridge or Cornwall Bridge, both good water.  

Drew- The CFS on the East Branch is 162.  While the water temperature remains in the low 60's the flow is ridiculously low for time of year.  We need a good soaker.   

Nice Clint where did you launch from, godfrey point?