I decided to leave early and check out the Schoharie Reservoir situation before doing any fishing. A good thing for the locals is that all the repair work is very visible up close. You can see the notch they cut from the spillway on the far end to further reduce the chance of a full reservoir...

This article was printed on Tuesday. Geez, NYC DEP sure didn't need another public relations problem with Catskill residents. By Greg Bruno and Jessica Gardner Times Herald-Record Inspection reports designed to prevent catastrophic failings at two New York City-owned dams in the Catskills...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press/decdep2pr.html

Who coulda thunk it? Back on 10/10/05 it hit the low for the year of 1090.5 feet. Just three months later it's up about 60 feet and ready to spill. Incredible! At 2:30 this afternoon it was only 3.6" below the crest of the spillway. It took just 18 hours to rise the last 3.6", so it should spill...

This is from that NYS DEC Radiotelemetry Trout Movement Study, '95-'97. Also, this shows the movement of that famous rainbow trout that traveled 127 miles during the study.

I got a letter from Norm McBride asking for the return of my Delaware Tailwaters angler diary. He also said he submitted a proposal to extend the trout season throughout the Delaware Tailwaters from 9/30 to 10/15 starting in 2006. This would be consistent with statewide regulations for trout. He...

This is according to my figuring which may not be totally accurate. The first two weeks of this month the three reservoirs lost an avg. of 1.3 bgd combined. The third week they lost an avg. of 1.5 bgd. They lost an avg. of 1.4 bgd in the last five days and now they hold about 133.2 bg combined...

I headed over to the Mongaup to see what was up with the reservoirs and the fishing below Rio. On the way I stopped at the USGS office near Milford, PA to get copies of the Report of the Rivermaster of the Delaware River for recent years. I got to talk with Gary Paulachok, the Deputy Delaware...

Does anyone know what parameters will be available for this new gage? I'm sure the gage will record discharge, gage height, and temperature. It would be nice if we could also get specific conductance, pH, and dissolved oxygen like the gage on the Lehigh River at Easton, PA. Maybe someone with...

The forecast called for a cloudy day with showers, so I headed for Planet Delaware. I decided to check out the conditions on the lower trout zone before fishing. I spent about three hours driving and walking at different points of the river. I started by walking the Callicoon bridge. I had my...

This is science, not speculation, from the NYS DEC Radiotelemetry Study.

This afternoon on the Lehigh River below White Haven, I saw the heaviest hatch and biggest rise of fish I've ever seen on that river. For hours all afternoon there were olives all over the place and the fish were goin' nuts. What a blast! Can anyone make a positive ID of these guys? They were...

This afternoon I was fishing the lower end of the Boy Scout Reservation and saw something flopping around below a branch over the water on the far bank. When I got over there I saw it was a radar-guided, flying mouse tangled in some fishing line. There was no way I could reach the branch. I...

Do you think some of the USGS gages could now be giving inaccurate readings due to stream bed changes at the gages? "It is important to understand the accuracy of the flow data compiled from the USGS gages. Accuracy of flow data depends primarily on the stability of the stage-discharge...

Geez, does it ever end? The casino is still possible, they wanna build that new city on Belle Ayr Mountain, and now some hot shot kid has taken a liking to Sullivan County. He's got a few things in the works. If he sticks around, he'll change the face of the Cats forever with all his "affordable...

I started out on a small stream at a perfect level, clear, and 43°. I was very confident I could land a few trout on a copper john with these conditions. No way though, I couldn't get a single bump. Oh well, I decided to try the Lehigh River at my favorite high water spot that I fished after the...

I was in the Poconos yesterday and spent some time crawlin' around on my belly shooting some video of pre-spawn trout. They're not building redds yet, they're just sorting out who'll be dating who. The first one is a large brown defending it's date by chasing away a small fish. WMV File - 1.35...

Off Topic-Accident at Kaaterskill Falls Yesterday http://www.midhudsoncentral.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1769&dept_id=72585&newsid=13145937&PAG=461&rfi=9 http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=295204&category=REGION&newsdate=10/15/2004 Here's a photo I took from where she fell. Be very...

Every fall I look forward to stalking trout sipping small bugs on the rivers. Last year the rivers remained high thru October, but this year the water levels are great. Yesterday it was cloudy, but dry and dead calm all afternoon. I had one of my most enjoyable days of the year fishing a huge...

Please, everyone be sure to return your diary even if you only logged one trip, or didn't receive a postage paid return envelope from Norm. He'd like us to send back the diaries right after 9/30. That was a surprise to me since there's still a lot of good info to be collected from all the caught...