Searching for Steelheads, on Irondequoit Creek in Penfield, NY on 23 January 2010.
Posts Tagged: fly fishing
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Jan 10
Searching for Steelheads
2
Dec 09
Fly fishing at Oak Orchard in Western, NY
I’m changing shirts! I always seem to have on this orange Filson moleskin!! I’m sure next time I’ll catch more fish with a black shirt.
This is Oak Orchard Creek in Western, NY, right below the point where the fish can’t go upstream any further – about 2.5 miles from Lake Ontario. (I don’t think they can scale this falls).
I didn’t catch anything but I hooked one and bent the #8 hook pretty good and I did cast at a nice brown and a 4-year-old rainbow (they call them steelheads here) but neither were hungry or I scared them off with the big 8 wt. and #2 hook on a 1x leader!!
Next time… smaller gear!!
I did see 3 steelhead caught on spin gear. They looked like 13-inchers and didn’t put up much of a fight for the guys reeling them in.
Beautiful day here with 53 degrees in December! Nice! Next trip will require steel studs on the boots I’m sure!
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Oct 09
Fly Fishing for Salmon on Sandy Creek, NY
Caught a nice female Chinook Salmon this morning on Sandy Creek on the West side of Rochester, NY in Monroe County. I was using a 5 weight Winston Boron IIx fly rod with a 6 lb. leader and tippet fishing with a pink imitation single egg fly. The fish took the fly on the second drift then proceeded upstream for about 50 yards and then acted like a log for about 15 minutes. My friend Bret helped me land her because we didn’t bring a net. Next time… a big net! After the photo op, I let her go.
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Aug 09
This little guy followed me all morning
Blurry iPhone shot of the little fawn that followed me down Oatka Creek for about a mile this morning. His mom and sister stayed quite a ways back in the woods but this one was within 20 feet the whole time.
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May 08
There aren’t any fish in this spot
My friend Howard Owens and I went fly fishing on Sunday on Irondequoit Creek in Perinton, NY. We didn’t catch anything, but we had a good time. The fishing report from the morning records the water at 59.5 degrees (very warm) and almost muddy. We’ll get ‘em another day!
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Nov 07
Western New York Fly Fishing
Winter has started to creep in to the Western part of New York and the ‘Browns’ are thinking about grabbing their last meals before slowing down for the winter in the creeks near Rochester.
We had a our first little flurry of snow yesterday. The temps are dropping too but wearing layers seems to be working just fine as I actually got too hot the last time out – except for my fingers! I have to figure out what to do about gloves. Any suggestions are appreciated. My next approach will be to take several pairs and when the first pair gets wet, switch to dry ones.
The bass boat is getting winterized next week. I may take it out once more to mix up the Stay-bil in the tank before shutting things down for the cold weather.
Tracy just bought me a 8’6″ 3 wt. Winston Boron IIx fly rod for my 40th birthday, so I’m now walking the area’s freezing creeks hunting for fish.
I might be addicted to fishing.