Last Friday morning I headed to the sacred fly fishing grounds of the Catskill Mountains in southeastern New York. If you’ve been reading my blog since the beginning, you may remember my friend Josh that keeps a permanent RV site in Equinunk, PA. It was almost one year ago that I visited Josh and made the decision to start writing the Wooly Bugged blog.
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On Wednesday it was still bothering me that my time fly fishing the Upper Fly Zone on the Salmon River the prior weekend had been unproductive. I was thinking of calling it quits on the 2016 salmon season and starting to focus my energy on autumn steelhead or brown trout. Then Thursday evening it hit me I hadn’t looked at the Douglaston Salmon Run (“DSR”) report all week. I surfed over to their website and within seconds of reading their Thursday, October 6th report, I knew what I’d be doing on Friday morning. The line in the report that got me was the note from a guide who fished the Lower Clay Hole that morning who said he conservatively estimated 1,000 fish moved past him. Throughout the month of September, all the charter boat captains were saying that there were huge numbers of marked salmon sitting just offshore. I knew the potential for an epic run was there, but after the last three years, you just couldn’t definitively say it was going to happen. Well folks, it happened.
Read moreSecond Chances On The Salmon River
Last Thursday night I finished up work around 5:00pm and headed to Pulaski for the third weekend in a row. To say I had high expectations would be an understatement. On Thursday afternoon the Douglaston Salmon Run (“DSR”) posted a report that their river patrol had spotted hundreds of salmon making their way toward the river at the lower property line. I figured this was finally it, the epic run that was going to see all the Chinook and Coho salmon stacked in the estuary move through the Lower Clay and head upriver.
Read moreFirst Blog Post And Fly Fishing The Catskill Rivers
This blog post is a big deal because it’s my first one. I have been thinking about starting a blog for a few years now but I could never settle on a subject that I could support with an endless stream of content. A few weeks ago as I was fishing the early Caddis hatch on the Tulpehocken Creek and it hit me, I’m passionate about fishing, specifically fly fishing. I’ve been fishing for 30 years and fly fishing for 15. In recent years my fly fishing adventures have started taking me to various locations across the country and I want to share my stories, pictures, and videos. This is why I’m starting the Wooly Bugged Blog.
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