I guess its time to get this thing rolling for the 2009 fishing season. My hope with this blog is to document my fishing throughout the season and maybe some other legal materials/topics a long the way.

Here are my first two days out this season.

3/7/09 My B-Day!

After a couple of long cold months of winter it looked like conditions were shaping up for a great day on the water, temperatures were in the upper 40's and I thought most of snow had melted off based upon the weeks falling stream gauge readings. Heading through the foothills of the Taconics, it appeared that I jumped the gun as many of the streams in NY were still iced over and the presence of snow steadily increased over my 30 minute drive into MA. I had planned on fishing a stream on the far side of the mountain but rather than drive all the way over there only to be snubbed by ice, I decided to check a closer stream first(this one [url]http://www.smallstreams.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2815[/url]). This stream was pretty much iced over with only a few seams of open water. Having nothing else to do and since it is/was my birthday, I decided to check out my original destination. After a long slippery walk down to the stream, I was rewarded with some open water. I was able to get in some not so tranquil fishing in thanks to the lovely exhaust note from a few "assmobiles" running through the woods and chainsaws run by loggers trying to squeeze a few more days of cutting in.















As you can see from the pictures the water was probably a little too frigid for the fish to be active (if they are even there) and no fish were brought to hand or even stirred up. Not to be denied, I decided to fish one of the small valley streams...





I hope everyone enjoys...

And thanks to my GF for a great birthday!
3/15/09
I got a chance to hit the water today. Since my usual haunts up in the mountains are still too cold to fish, I hit a valley stream again this week. To my surprise I hooked these beauties all w/in a 1/4 mile of stream...

A wee Brookie


A "Buttery" Brown


And to my surprise a "Colorful" Rainbow. I really like the markings on this fish, a bit different than the rainbows I am used to in Vermont.


Didn't get many pictures of the scenery. Its not the most beautiful of waterway, but the wild fish make up for it...