I know the exact strainer you're talking about and a teenage girl died there two years ago. They've since removed it or jes kinda pulled it up on the bank.

Danger while wading

My buddy and I were nymphing the fast water below cemetery pool on the Esopus. He made the mistake of wading downstream to a big strainer (a mostly submerged tree) in hip deep water. I think he was...

Danger while wading

My first time out west. We floated the green river stripping buggers with our terribly undergunbed orvis far and fine fly rods. We pulled over to an island with a nice side channel and had lunch....

Danger while wading

I was fishing the sulfur on the upper west with Beetle when he slipped, fell, and became completely submerged with his head underwater... .... all of this occurred at low flows of about 450 cfs in...

Danger while wading

One time Beetle slipped, fell, somehow managed to become completely submerged with his head under water..... ....all of this occurred in about 9 inches of water and his cell phone didn't survive...

Danger while wading

Fishing the Beaverkill at 800cfs with a new camera. I had waders on and I was in over my head. I could feel the water pushing my feet over the slippery rocks. I had my new camera held up high so...

Danger while wading

Drinking and wading may be a hazard as well...just saying for a friend.

Danger while wading

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Danger while wading

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