streamfisher
Northeast
Hi,
I haven't really posted here but have been a lurker for a while. The forum I frequented has run dry so I thought I'd share a fishing report here:
I'm from Westchester NY. I fish mostly the Westchester and Putnam county waters, the Catskills and CT. I am a flyfisherman but I will fish any way any time I can. This past weekend I flyfished locally on Saturday and Ice fished on Sunday. If I pass a puddle on the street I check to see if there's fish there.
Last weekend I visited the Housy in CT. It was cold but managable if dressed properly. There were ice shelves everywhere so getting to some spots was either very tricky or impossible (better now I expect). I have two bruised knees for my troubles walking a shelf along the bank that gave way on me. The water, under the ice, was only two feet deep at the spot. Just enough for both of my knees to bang right in to the ice. But, it was worth it. I needed to get to this spot. It's a perfect spot with two boulders in the middle of the river with one of them about 20 yards up river from the other. On my side of these boulders is relatively shallow ripple water. On the other side is a beautiful run that dropped to about 5 feet in the center. I rigged a czech style #16 caddis nymph with a latex green back (slightly smidged with a black sharpie) and a lighter green dubbed underbelly with a tinge of orange. Trailing about 18" below was a #20 midge. They went for the Caddis. My first take felt like a regular 12" fish for about 3 seconds until it figured out it didn't like what was happening. I held on to this 20"+ Rainbow for about five minutes while it tried every acrobatic maneuver (under water) before eventually just placing itself headstrong in to the current, stationary on my 6x tippet. I knew I couldn't let him sit there and tried to coax him in to burning off some more energy... Did this for a while causing him to waiver occasionaly... Then... the fly just popped right out. Just like that.
Two casts later, I hooked in to and landed the 17" Rainbow below.
I haven't really posted here but have been a lurker for a while. The forum I frequented has run dry so I thought I'd share a fishing report here:
I'm from Westchester NY. I fish mostly the Westchester and Putnam county waters, the Catskills and CT. I am a flyfisherman but I will fish any way any time I can. This past weekend I flyfished locally on Saturday and Ice fished on Sunday. If I pass a puddle on the street I check to see if there's fish there.
Last weekend I visited the Housy in CT. It was cold but managable if dressed properly. There were ice shelves everywhere so getting to some spots was either very tricky or impossible (better now I expect). I have two bruised knees for my troubles walking a shelf along the bank that gave way on me. The water, under the ice, was only two feet deep at the spot. Just enough for both of my knees to bang right in to the ice. But, it was worth it. I needed to get to this spot. It's a perfect spot with two boulders in the middle of the river with one of them about 20 yards up river from the other. On my side of these boulders is relatively shallow ripple water. On the other side is a beautiful run that dropped to about 5 feet in the center. I rigged a czech style #16 caddis nymph with a latex green back (slightly smidged with a black sharpie) and a lighter green dubbed underbelly with a tinge of orange. Trailing about 18" below was a #20 midge. They went for the Caddis. My first take felt like a regular 12" fish for about 3 seconds until it figured out it didn't like what was happening. I held on to this 20"+ Rainbow for about five minutes while it tried every acrobatic maneuver (under water) before eventually just placing itself headstrong in to the current, stationary on my 6x tippet. I knew I couldn't let him sit there and tried to coax him in to burning off some more energy... Did this for a while causing him to waiver occasionaly... Then... the fly just popped right out. Just like that.
Two casts later, I hooked in to and landed the 17" Rainbow below.
