Sparse Grey Matter

This just in from our Epeorus : -Ed was on water early this morning-- opening day of trout season in New York. It didn't surprise me one bit that Ed's first cast of the new season enticed a gargantuan 29-1/2" wild Esopus River brown trout! Congrats, Ed! Ed rarely keeps a fish but this is a catch of ...

I seemed to have misplaced Ayumi Ozeki's email address (he has a place on the upper Beaverkill area, in Rockland). He often stops in the Dette shop.
Please PM his email, if you have it.

-Thanks

Folks, I have a great project in the works with Stackpole, my publisher, that has a lot to do with Catskill waters. >Do you have a great pattern(s) that you've fished in the Catskills with sustained success? A pattern that you wouldn't be without at some time or another during the fishing season. A ...

Great, Tom.... FYI, my friend Jamie Woods (a Trustee at the American Museum of Fly fishing) and I have been planning an enhanced "Atherton Booth" for the museum's annual August event. John Atherton's granddaughter will be joining us at the booth this summer. Catherine is a peach of a gal. I got to k...

Atkin was part of the Buz Buszek circle. Others from my "era" in fly tying will recall that there were only a dozen fly tying mail order houses in all of the U.S. Most of us had the Buz's Fly and Tackle Shop catalog. Buz's had the best dyed dun hackle that could be had in those late 1960's days---so...

Basket "Brook" (we always called it "brook"), trib to big D-----
15" brown, late August, 1966.

My father and his uncle were down at the mouth but I wandered upstream. The fish had eggs. I remember that!

Ted,
I just emailed you a very high res photo of a Black Nose Dace---with orange hue. It's on a nice mossy background. I shot the pic back in 2014

-Mike

I believe the key phrase here is "spawning colors". Male BND acquire a reddish tint in spawning season. I have pics of both female and male in spawning colors---but have to locate the memory card. Or maybe on an external hard drive? But, as suggested, just go and get a $15 minnow trap, bait it and ...

Ted, I shot dozens of photos of Baitfish, including the black nose dace, for the "bucktails" book. I just have to find the photos. I might have a different version of this guy, one on a different background. -If I can't locate the photos, just go down to Walmart and purchase a $15 minnow trap. Stick...

Teddy, I believe I have a photo of the set that Terry Finger (Ray Smith student) sent to me when I was crafting the Catskill dry flies tying book way back. But it's on one of several CDs Terry sent to me just before he died. Only problem is I don't know which of the CDs has the photo. And my new com...