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Fishing The Battenkill River and Roaring Branch
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 It was 57 degrees when we woke up, which makes for great sleeping. Sooner suggested driving 9 miles south to the New York side of the Battenkill River where they stock trout so we might have a better chance of catching fish. We stopped at a bridge and fished above and…
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Moving to The Westfield River
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 We are so sorry to leave this area. The more we saw, the more we learned, the more there is to fish. There are 485 miles of streams to fish here. As Jeff said, “Come back in June and stay a month”. We employed the same strategy – I would pack…
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Fishing The Beaverkill River
Monday, July 1, 2019 We tried to organize our flies and label them. The trouble is we buy these flies, put them our fly boxes and then never can remember what they are or where we are supposed to fish them. Some are works of art. Some are classics and some are specific to a…
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Fishing Trout Brook
Several have said all the feeder streams in this area have native Brook Trout. We chose Trout Brook. We didn’t know where to fish it or what the regulations were, so we just parked at a pull-off, geared up and started fishing. It’s a beautiful little creek. With plenty of logs and vegetation, we had…
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Fishing Esopus Creek
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Tags: Phoenicia Hardware Store, Phoenicia, NY, Esopus Creek. It was a clear, beautiful morning at our campsite on Esopus Creek. We could see no hatch or fish rising, so we decided to go to the hardware store in Phoenicia which also sells trout flies. A lady at the counter said good…
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Grueling Moving Day
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 With rain last night, stream conditions weren’t going to get any better, so we decided to move on a day early. Once we got on a main road, we would call Sleep Hollow Campground and see if we could get an extra day. We packed up, hooked up and headed out.…
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Fisherman’s Paradise and Fishing Creek
Monday, June 24, 2019 We had passed an overlook several times, so this time we stopped to get some pictures of this beautiful area We knew Fishing Creek was muddy, but that was our best choice, at least of the streams we knew about. We stopped at a convenience store for some coffee. As Kelly…
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Houses of Natchez
I spent the afternoon driving, but mostly walking around Natchez. One neighborhood along the cliff overlooking the Mississippi was most impressive. It’s only a guess, but I suspect the city codes for historic homes might stop some people from buying. Next door to some incredibly beautiful homes are once-beautiful homes that are in disrepair. There…
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Mackinac Island
Thursday, October 4, 2018 We drove north from Petoskey to Mackinac and caught the 11:00 ferry over to Mackinac Island. It was a chilly 45 degrees with the winds blowing 20 miles an hour. I was beginning to wonder about this trip with ferries going over every half hour, carrying a hundred or so people…
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Bike the Heritage Trail and Kayak the Platte River
Saturday, September 29, 2018 With temperatures struggling to reach 50, we drove north to take the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive. On parts of it, I felt like I was on the Skyline Drive in Virginia. Then it opened out to immense sand dunes, one being 1000 feet tall. Then we took the bikes to the…