Nice report Charlie. Good to hear some are getting tugs instead of shrugs like myself.
Last February the tailwater was putting a massive expansion together, heard it might also include a spa of sorts. I never woulda thought it would survive but it seems to be .
I also don't mind staying there . If we did 3 nights the price was below $90.00 a night and I can take that for a 3 night trip with my wife for whats offered and you never have to drive once your there if you want.
I'm paying that for a crappy place in a few weeks at hunting camp.

Haven't even looked as my fishing gear since June. Finally getting caught up on chores and packing my hunting gear together now.
Starting Friday, I'll have 3 weeks to do whatever I wish, woods or water.
If the freezers fill quickly, it will be water.
Sorry I have nothing to offer in the fishing dept and thanks to you all for sharing

pafisher

fichy

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Someone told me there are two indoor pools in that expansion.Charlie did you offer to net the weasels catch?Maybe it was a small Otter?

Jack, I've watched lots of river and sea otters, this critter was not too familiar with being in the water.  It was like a skinny drowned rat. It might have been a mink.   HT, though I hate the loss of the river behind Tailwater, I just paid 112 a night for a plywood bed  and the usual uncontrolled heat and  no tables or chairs.  I'm going to look into staying  at Tailwater this winter if some deals arise.  It's now a member of the Hilton chain. http://www.oswegonews.com...ilwater-lodge-20171013

Fichy, I know my wife won't traverse the river or conditions. She may take a walk out back to their fenced in barrel but that's about it.
I've stayed 3 times, you have to hit their price point at the right times.
It's a pretty set up joint where you CAN walk in with waders to a heated special flooring over concrete. Wash and hang your waders in the wader room not worrying about a funk. Onsite fly shop and tying benches with unlimited supplies or Shoot some pool, play darts , grab ( expensive) food and listen to live music in the brewery.
A spa or pool would be nice, imo.
It's not something I can do always or often but if she is happy, I'm happy.

I'll be sleeping on a cot or plywood for the next 3 weeks.

Fichy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3AKaBjU3o
I've seen mink with trout along the East Branch of the Croton River also on local ponds where I grew up.
 

Thanks for that, Gerry- I'm pretty positive it was a mink. Nancy's first thought , also.  It was a better sight than the Russian I saw in All Seasons that was wearing camo long underwear as pants.   No zipper, just the flap.  I guess he thought he was invisible.

Now THATS funny.

Fish carcass is one of my biggest mink catchers here on the farm. I get a few a year before they get my chickens. Most are black and as big as a small cat

NOT seeing any decent Steel reports anywhere as the season goes on.
My days of fishing them in 16 deg. temps and fighting snow to get to decent spots are long gone even when its HOT.
Those days were when I had my much missed place up there and aint spending a couple of hundred on a couple of nights in a cheap motel and getting past due food to experience freezing fingers for nothing lol.
That said if it was HOT fishing, I might be nuts enough to feel the urge, but not for fishing thats poor -at best.
Can remember using blue sacs and a light spin outfit in the Vines one Nov. day and hitting about a dozen in a few hours and throwing a little bug with the Switch one April in the same area hitting half dozen behind the same rock over a couple of hours- haven't heard those kind of reports in a LONG time.
Sure wish the ups and downs of Steel numbers would be UP a time or two while I can still do it.
Memories are great though.

There are some fish there, but the weather has not been.  Wednesday PM it got a little warmer, and the area around the RT 52 bridge lit up, they had a lot of fish in the wires, and the bo's were also pretty hot.  Next day all three areas were dead as a doornail with the newly arrived cold.  With the forecast for miserable driving today, we played prudent and got out of there yesterday around lunch time, and got back to Rachacha just as it kicked off.  We only got about 6" here, but looking at the maps, I think P-town got hit pretty hard, and Wayne County got over a foot.  The roads are a mess, it would have been a really long drive back, and questionable if we would have even been able to drive to fishing this AM if we had stayed. 

Excuse me for mentioning numbers a post or two back. I don't generally do that for any reason-good or bad.
Felt that recent conditions compared to long gone  'glory days' might have been worthwhile.
Those two situations weren't the norm even back then- especially with my limited skills-but the fact that they happened at all speaks to the fishery at the time IMHO.
Sometimes ya just remember the best you ever found it and whish it could happen again- just once.
Been going up over 36 years- some GREAT and some not so great - but always fun.