Category: New York
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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 Upper Willowemoc Creek
Sunday, June 30, 2019 It’s amazing how it cools off here at night. At some time during the night, with the windows open, I pull up the blanket. The only sound is the flow of the Beaverkill 15 feet away. Charlie, who we met on the East Fork of the Delaware River, recommended fishing the…
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Moving to Roscoe, NY
Friday, June 28, 2019 I told Kelly to go fishing for a couple of hours while I caught up on posting. We didn’t know what to expect for WIFI at our next campsite. It didn’t take much convincing and he was off. I finished posting, straightened and swept the Airstream. Then I loaded up, cleaned…
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Sleepy Hollow Campground
Thursday, June 27, 2019 Wyatt runs a very nice campground near Phoenicia, NY.
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Fishing Esopus Creek
Thursday, June 27, 2019 We drove upstream where our friend in the hardware store told us to go and fished for several hours. Kelly went to a big hole where a feeder stream enters. I went up the feeder stream. The feeder stream begs for a dry fly, and I tried several with no effect.…
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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.…