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| Fish landed - Photo by Leif Mermagen |
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| Fish on! - Photo by Denver Miller |
November is now gone and the fishing has remained, for the
most part, consistent. Even if that means a little slower than what we have
come to expect in recent years.
After a very busy October and early November, where “stream
time” was all but nonexistent, I am now enjoying some time on the local
tributaries.
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| In the net - photo by Denver Miller |
This past weekend I was able to get out for a little while
on my birthday and celebrate with a few friends (Jessie Hollenbeck of
Wide SkyFly Fishing, Denver Miller, Leif Mermagen of
Streamwalker Nets & Jim
Metcalf & Family) along with my youngest son Ethan. Everyone got into a few
fish, spent time sharing stories and had a wonderful lunch with a surprise
birthday cake.
We caught most of our fish on egg patterns dead drifted
along the bottom. Beads, sucker spawn, nuclear roe bugs in a variety of colors all
worked. And although we caught fish, we couldn’t really ever find a pattern
that seemed to rule the day and put fish in the net on a consistent basis.
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| One of a few lake run brown trout for us - photo by Denver Miller |
The Erie Canal is now draining and providing a much needed
bump in water flow for many of our WNY tributaries. Hopefully this will prove
to be enough incentive for more lake run trout to make their way upstream and
provide us with some quality winter fishing.
Special thanks to Leif Mermagen and Denver Miller for providing photos for this blog.
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| Ethan with a fish on |
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| Denver with a nice kyped out male lake run brown |
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| What a crew! |
