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Lake drained in Wawayanda SP. Need Rusty
Rusty do you know why this lake was drained? Was a crummy old dam and dangerous/shallow/mucky. Keep tearing those stupid small dams down my dude.
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10-21-2019 #2
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Re: Lake drained in Wawayanda SP. Need Rusty
I don't know, but would guess the dam was failing and State Parks has no funds to fix obsolete dams that only serve to pollute our rivers and streams.
Originally Posted by Catskill Mountain Man
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10-21-2019 #3
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Re: Lake drained in Wawayanda SP. Need Rusty
Been there. Dam/ lake gone. Had to have been coordination with NY/NJ as the machinery came from the ny side to a nj lake/dam. good news for my stream
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Re: Lake drained in Wawayanda SP. Need Rusty
Damn... or Dam... Where'v you been hiding? Last time we heard from you, you were belly flopping off rocks into a river. Originally Posted by Catskill Mountain Man
Pictures taken before/after/during fly fishing:
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Re: Lake drained in Wawayanda SP. Need Rusty
he's been hiding deep in the wilderness along the Dkill spooking through hikers Originally Posted by dcabarle
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10-23-2019 #6
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Re: Lake drained in Wawayanda SP. Need Rusty
You mean partaking in the lost ,manly art of body surfing rapids Originally Posted by dcabarle
In his tweed jacket as his noggin bounces and careens off boulders.
A true manly renaissance man...Lol!
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Fished Saturday near Phoenicia starting around 4. Water temps in Esopus not bad at 66, the portal was only putting out a little water, but the T-storms dumped plenty. The stream was turbid from the...
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