If anyone is interested in a country home eight miles southeast of Roscoe and 10 miles east of Kellams Bridge you can PM me. Property is ten acres with views and ponds, three bedroom home. It will be listed in the spring with a local broker for $360,000. I'll discount the brokers commission for...

The following article was in Sunday's Star Ledger. The part of the Pequonnock River discussed is a small tailwater that holds wild trout, I've caught only browns there when I use to fish it regularly until about five years ago. I'm posting this so the DRF and FUDR folks can maybe use this as a...

Just got home from the Clapton concert at the Garden tonight. I don't care what rod this man uses, man can he play the guitar...... What a show, everything back to Cream. For an old timer like me it was heaven! Joe T., if we hook up you again this weekend you won't need to watch for my car...

I have not read this in today's paper YET. This is a front page story in NJ's largest newspaper. I'm putting it up for out of state people. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-15/108779590496810.xml Michael M

I want to pontoon the MS June 1, 2 & 3. Does anyone want to hookup? Two vehicles will help shuttling. Doesn't have to be MS, I would go WB or lower EB. I'm open for any time of the day or evening. Or, if anyone is interested in joining me (split the $'s) we can hire a guide and float any of...

I received a new book today that I had preordered a few months ago and forgot it was coming. "Tying Emergers" by Jim Schollmeyer and Ted Leeson $45.00, Frank Amato Publications. I haven't gotten into it yet but after a quick look I have to say it looks very good. The detail by both of these...

I was in the Catskills this weekend hoping to take some pictures with my new digital camera and as fate would have it, or my lack of will power, I decided to try and throw a line. I say try because I had rotator cuff surgery in February and it is a slow recovery surgery. So there I was with...

I am looking for how others might travel locally with their rod fully assembled inside their car. My Yukon was easy to do, just send a 9 footer forward over the front seatback and off I would go. I am going to use a mini SUV now and a 9 footer will just fit tip to tip. I need something to...

If anyone is going the the Ozzie Ozefovich lecture and video presentation in Morristown, NJ next Tuesday (2/3/04) night we can meet up. I registered for the lecture and the dinner afterwards. Mike

I cast my first fly one day back in 1964 into the West Branch of the Ausable River in NY. After those three days of camping next to the river I became so taken with the outdoors and the life that surrounds that enviroment that if I reflect back over all those years, little has changed. The...

Can anyone tell me if they can ID both of the insects in this scan. The orange worms were alive and the sacks would just smudge when probed. They were in the 100's maybe even thousands; attached to the aerator in my pond in Sullivan County when I pulled it for the winter two weeks ago. Any...

I want to start tying and I would thank anyone who could suggest any books, references or web sites that include the ingredients for tying patterns for the Catskill waters. Thanks Mike