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Can I get an updated list of recommended shuttle services around Hancock?

I wrote a story on fly fishing the Passaic River in Eastern Fly Fishing magazine in the last year or so. That stretch of river just upstream of Dundee Dam has several different kinds of nuclear radioactive waste in it, in addition to ridiculous amounts of toxic and cancer-causing contaminants...

There's no water in the stream - I think you'll be walk-stocking it unless we get rain.

Probably a parasite. The good news is that grilling the fish would have killed them all, so I don't believe you would have been in any danger (provided you cooked the fish thoroughly). That's why you are not supposed to eat Sushi, or any undercooked fish. I purchased some cod at the farmer's...

Someone I was fishing with pulled one out by Long Eddie a few years ago. It was easily 17 inches.

For a fly fishing story I am writing, would love to know IF you prefer sight fishing and more importantly, WHY? What is it about sight fishing that you find most compelling?

Is Joe T still around? :)

Yeah, and be sure to smear a little chocolate on there too, and tie a pork chop around your neck. Bears hate all those things.

There is a famous Relais & Chateau property in the area that I read about, has good lake fishing. Might want to research it, may give you some ideas.

Love this fly. Fish larger ones as streamers and also fish it dry, twitching it across the surface to resemble a caddie. One of my top five flies.

Ted lesson wrote a great book about his growing up in that area and the fishing. Definitely recommend that.

Can anyone steer me to specific places to access the upper Passaic in the Mendham area? I hear there are wild trout and would like to give a try.

I have several copies of the Orvis Guide to Great Sporting Lodge Cuisine: 150 Recipes from the Greatest Escapes in North America, that I want to give away to NEFF friends. These are advance copies with black and white photos, rather than color photos. The book came out in 2008. Aside from being...

Why not take it up with the state of PA? If they are really serious about their catch and release regulations, why not get them to impose a water temperature restriction in designated areas like the LL? Granted, it IS morally questionable that a fly shop would encourage anglers to fish in such...