Some shots of fall 2008 in NY

A Brook Trout

Today looked like it should have been a great day of early spring fishing with temperatures in the 50's but to my surprise I found a completely different world 1500ft up in elevation. As I headed to my chosen fishing spot for the day, I noticed a car with snow on its hood and roof...hmmm. Continuing up in elevation snow began to make an appearance on the ground, by the time I reached my destination there was 3 or 4 inches on the ground. The water on this particular stream was up 8 to 12 inches from it's average flows and the water was cold at 39 degrees. I didn't have any luck today, too cold and running too high I guess. I did manage to take a nice spill into the chilly water which both shortened my trip significantly and banged up my knee. Its time to figure this falling thing out...

3/28 and 3/29

Saturday
I had the opportunity to fish this nice little stream while Lindsay, Susan, and Katelyn basked in he beauty of the first truly nice day of spring. This stream is pretty small but was running high and cold due to snow melt. Fishing was pretty slow until later in the afternoon. Lost my camera on this trip, when I bent over to release a fish it took a swim. Needless to say, that was the end of the pictures for the day.






Sunday
Cold, wet, and dreary describe this day. Since my camera is dead there are no pictures from this trip. Caught a couple of small brookies and got a couple of little fish to rise for dries, this is a great sign that good fishing is only weeks a way.