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Paul, I would check out the site run by a decent guy named Matt. He lives not too far away in Rome I believe. He is familiar with the Utica/Rome areas (about an hour away) and he can turn you on to some other spots in your area. If you head up 87, you will find all sorts of small creeks and streams. They used to be awesome for brookies, but I haven’t fished there in years. His site is: http://www.centralnewyorker.com/CNYflyfisherman.htm Give him a try. Gordon Burr The worst day on the water beats the best day in the office. Gordo

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Hi,  I have been an avid fisher person for many years. Have recently taken up fly fishing – after moving to the Albany New York area.  Any tips for the area, fishing spots (fly fishing or otherwise) fishing partners (I’ll buy the beer or lunch) haven’t made any new friends here yet.  would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance   Paul P

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Hi,  I have been an avid fisher person for many years. Have recently taken up fly fishing – after moving to the Albany New York area.  Any tips for the area, fishing spots (fly fishing or otherwise) fishing partners (I’ll buy the beer or lunch) haven’t made any new friends here yet.  would be greatly appreciated

Do make the trip up to the Adirondacks – Saranac, Ausable area – if you get the chance.  I’d love to head up there with ya, but it’s not in the cards this year

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Hi,  I have been an avid fisher person for many years. Have recently taken up fly fishing – after moving to the Albany New York area.  Any tips for the area, fishing spots (fly fishing or otherwise) fishing partners (I’ll buy the beer or lunch) haven’t made any new friends here yet.  would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance   Paul P

Funny, I just left after 10 years. Depending where you live, there are a host of nearby opportunities. My personal favorite was either the Mohawk or the Junction of the Hudson and Hoosac for smallies on the fly. The Mohawk has lots of areas to fish- easily accessible are all the locks (that goes for the Hudson, too). From shore good areas are either end of the Crescent Bridge, the flight locks, Lock 7 in Niskayuna and the other side of Lock 7 accessible from Ferry Rd nature path in Clifton Park, just west of Vischer’s Ferry Road. For the jct of the Hoosac and Hudson get to Stillwater and go across the bridge over the Hudson, turn right into the road for the Lock Park. Park in the lot and take the footpath south from the parking area to the Hoosac. I mostly used white grub bodies and spinners on the Hoosac. It’s very interesting place with a lot of fish but water levels change, sometimes dramatically, dependent  upon releases through the dam at Schagticoke, upriver. It is wild in Summer when water levels are down and fish congregate in the narrow rushing channels cut through the rock. Believe me the Albany are is fantastic for water to fish. Start asking around here or local tackle shops. Add the Adirondacks and Vermont to all the water in the Albany area and you are in paradise. I loved it so much I bought the lifetime license from NY state which is good even if you are no longer a NY resident. Tight lines and watch your footing! Cow

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I was out on the river last night, up at the dam. nothing there yet, give it a week and maybe!! Vern

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m sure that you’re aware that there is a heck of a lot of stream fishing in the area.  But sometime between now and mid-May or so is supposed to be a good time to fish for shad and striped bass.  You may want to look into shore access at Green Island, below the dam at Troy.  I can’t give you any first-hand information: I was in the area last year and researched it a bit, but then wasn’t able to get to it.

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June is prime time, but  May could be OK too if it is not too early in the month. I know August sucks. Get on Google and find someone up there to email? — Bill Kiene Kiene’s Fly Shop Sacramento, CA, USA www.kiene.com

. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I hope to hit the Kamloops area of B.C. early in the season in 2002. I anticipate ice-out will occur about May, early for lower elevations and later for higher elevations. I would appreciate any advice, hints, locations of hot lakes, comments on fishing this time of year, etc.

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Check out some of the local fly shops when you are there, most will help you out. I am trying to remember the names of a few I particularly liked, but they escape me. (I know exactly how to get to one where the owner was particlarly helpful, but I can’t remember the name of the shop.) Expect to use midges, scuds, leeches, or other early season food imitations. You might keep an eye on the sportfishing BC forum at http://www.sportfishingbc.com/forum/ or the Fishing BC forum http://www.fishbc.com/cgi-bin/board/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&nu… I hope this helps. I am planning on being in the areq in mid-April or early May myself. Sometimes I can get some fishing in, sometimes not. Hope this helps Tim Lysyk

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I hope to hit the Kamloops area of B.C. early in the season in 2002. I anticipate ice-out will occur about May, early for lower elevations and later for higher elevations. I would appreciate any advice, hints, locations of hot lakes, comments on fishing this time of year, etc.

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Some lakes are open in April or even late March. Stump, Six Mile, Jocko and White are known for long a open season and provide fishing before the 1st of May.  Concentrate on lakes in the 3000 foot elevation range.Paul Lake is within an easy drive of Kamloops and is a lake at the proper elevation for that time of year. Early in the season blood worms, leech, corixa and chironmids are the primary hatch. If the weather is mild or warm chironmid hatches can be prolific. Chironomids are the most consistent hacth in May and into early June. Cold weather fronts will negatively effect the fishing. Towards the end of the month it is possible to hit excellent hatches or callibaetis mayflies and even damsels in some lower lakes. All will depend on the timing of ice free conditions and if there is a cold or warm spring. The worst timing would be to fish a lake in turnover, the best immediately after ice off. Yosh’s tackle in Kamloops is a good tackle store or the Logan Lake fly shop. Ask for Georgi at Logan Lake. The best discussion forum is at fishbc.com. Many area residents, guides and tackle shop jockeys frequent this site and are more than willing to provide info and advice. be sure to get as up to date information as possible before you go and adjust your fishing locale accordingly.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I hope to hit the Kamloops area of B.C. early in the season in 2002. I anticipate ice-out will occur about May, early for lower elevations and later for higher elevations. I would appreciate any advice, hints, locations of hot lakes, comments on fishing this time of year, etc.

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I hope to hit the Kamloops area of B.C. early in the season in 2002. I anticipate ice-out will occur about May, early for lower elevations and later for higher elevations. I would appreciate any advice, hints, locations of hot lakes, comments on fishing this time of year, etc.

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Give Georgi Abbot of the Logan Lake Fly Shop and email. She’s happy to Don – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I hope to hit the Kamloops area of B.C. early in the season in 2002. I anticipate ice-out will occur about May, early for lower elevations and later for higher elevations. I would appreciate any advice, hints, locations of hot lakes, comments on fishing this time of year, etc.

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Will be fishing at Spinney and/or Eleven Mile in a few days.  Any info on northern pike or other fishing would be appreciated.  Thanks

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Will be fishing at Spinney and/or Eleven Mile in a few days.  Any info on northern pike or other fishing would be appreciated.  Thanks

Big spoons in the 2-3 ft deep weedy shallows if you are casting. Black or yellow zonkers or BIG wolly buggers in the same place if you are fly fishing. If you have to fish from shore, you are pretty much out of luck. cheers oz

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Call this number for info- 1-719-748-3424  Elevenmile Store This is an article(1997) from Fishng & Hunting MAG Sleep Late, then fish the shallows at Elevenmile Resevoir and you’ll catch Northern Pike.  Pike aren’t noted for being early feeders so theres no point in fishing the lake until after 10 am.  The bite gets underway in late morning, then it tapers off in early afternoon and picks back up again around 5:30 pm. Elevenmile is loaded with pike.  The majority of them are in he 18-26 inch range but there are some fish over 30 inches in the lake, and probably some are getting close to 40 inches now. Some of the favorite spots include: Parking lot cove- west of the Corral Cove parking lot East Bay The Columnist, Ed Marsh prefers to use Stickbaits, like the Luhr Jenson Minnow in the fire tiger pattern(4 1/2 inches) All of the coves mentioned are shallow and weedy, and you definetly need waders to fish them properly.  From the shoreline you simply cannot cast far enough to cover enough water for fishing. Another bit of advice.  If you go there, the afternoons here in Colorado are very windy, so don’t go too far in a belly boat(Experience!) Most people I know who go to Elevinemile for pike use large Rapalas colored like Rainbow Trout and do pretty well. Also, if you use smaller spoons, you’ll probably hook up with some of the trout that haven’t been eaten by the Pike! Dan Dow Check my page- http://community-2.webtv.net/dandow/KINGFISHEROFTHEWORLD/page2.html thanks!

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Going to Colorado next week to fish for northern pike.  Any tips would be appreciated.  Thanks, Ed.

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where do you expect to find northern pike in Colorado? there  are a few lakes on the front range where the tiger musky has been stocked but i never heard of any northern in colorado.

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What lakes are you fishing?  Bring your coat! Going to Colorado next week to fish for northern pike.  Any tips would be appreciated.  Thanks, Ed.

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From what I’ve heard, there’s plenty of pike in various Colorado lakes, albiet I’ve heard there somewhat over populated and sizes tend to run on the hammer handle size. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – where do you expect to find northern pike in Colorado? there  are a few lakes on the front range where the tiger musky has been stocked but i never heard of any northern in colorado. Going to Colorado next week to fish for northern pike.  Any tips would be appreciated.  Thanks, Ed.

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Spinney Mountain Reservoir has plenty. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – From what I’ve heard, there’s plenty of pike in various Colorado lakes, albiet I’ve heard there somewhat over populated and sizes tend to run on the hammer handle size. where do you expect to find northern pike in Colorado? there  are a few lakes on the front range where the tiger musky has been stocked but i never heard of any northern in colorado. Going to Colorado next week to fish for northern pike.  Any tips would be appreciated.  Thanks, Ed.

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According to the Whittakers site, the release from the Beacon Hill Dam has been cut back to 2 gates.  This is still more water than can really be fished effectively with a fly rod without using running line and a very big slinky.  This is still more water than can be waded safely. If you do plan to fish it, look for seams along the edge and work them very quietly.  Steelhead will often hold well out of the flow of the river during periods of high water. Bob Davis

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Because of problems at the uppper reservoir, combined with the rainfall over the weekend, early on Tuesday morning, 11/4/97, Niagara Mohawk began releasing tremendous amounts of water into the lower Salmon River, rendering it currently unfishable.   For those of you who are familiar with the "gate system", the river is now running at 2 gates, plus an overflow spillway, plus the run-off from Trout and Orwell Brooks as the result of recent heavy rain.  Even with the heaviest slinky, it is almost impossible to get down to the fish, and the sudden change in water volume seems to have put them completely off of their feed. I drove up to the upper power plant and talked with some of the staff and found out that, due to repairs now underway, the water level will not be dropping before Friday 11/7/97.   Whittakers, probably the best of the fly fishing shops up there, has a web site at http://www.whitakers.com/, and they are the only one that seems to be giving the correct info about this problem.

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There are a bunch of web sites which claim to cover the Salmon River, and this recent change in the water level gives us a good opportunity to test out their reliability.   The Oswego County Chamber of Commerce has not said anything about the abnormally high water releases, and is still talking about Salmon on their redds, and stating that the ebst fishing is around the 2-A Bridge. Well, the truth is that any salmon that is still on its redd is swimming very fast…and if they are around 2-A they have tied themselves to the bottom <g.  Bad info here… Salmon River Sportfishing Reports is a really well done site with all of the Java that anyone would want…but it was last updated on 10/31/97, well before the high water began. Bad info here too… Whittakers, at http://www.whitakers.com/ updated its report at 5:00AM this morning and says "Water is under two gates.  The level was supposed to be dropped at midnight tonight. Will update as soon as we know." Sounds like good info here….a page worth bookmarking, and a shop worth visiting.  Whittakers is heavily oriented toward flyfishing, Jim Rusher who owns the place is very knowledgeable and "user-friendly", and Duke and Dick also know their stuff. They are also telling us that "The North and South Sandys had a run of Rainbows and Cohoes the last two days."  I know fairly reliably that Sandy Creek had not yet gotten any significant run of fish this fall, and it was expected that the recent rains would have brought them in. they were not there on Tuesday – I fished Sandy Creek below the falls, an area that I know well, and saw no sign of fish. But I would expect them to be moving in. Lots of deer and game birds though… Let me put in a plug for my own site – if you invest in undervalued small-cap stocks, take a look at http://www.napeague.com Bob Davis

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Hey, I’m new to fly fishing, and I’ve got a realatively inexpensive outfit that I use for grayling up here in Alaska. Now, it’s my understanding that to make the dry flys float, you spray them with a silicon type sealer and rub it in, right?  Now, I have a jar of Aladdin Magic Lube II silicone lube/sealant in a clear, jelly form. Can I use this? thanks Timothy Murphrey North Pole Alaska

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that I use for grayling up here in Alaska. Now, it’s my understanding that to make the dry flys float, you spray them with a silicon type sealer and rub it in, right?  Now, I have a jar of Aladdin Magic Lube II

1.  No.  Dry flies made sparsely on lightweight hooks with good hackle or dubbing should float by themselves:  and when soaked should dry to float again with one crack of the whip.  (Beware this!  Every crack weakens the nylon tippet.  That’s why you deliberately avoid this in casting.) 2.  Silicone or other waterproofing treatments help flies float in non-standard conditions, e.g. big bushy flies on broken water.  There are now so many chemicals, from ancient wax in naphtha to modern Scotchgard that you can use whatever you like.  But avoid excessive complications, i.e. use no chemicals unless necessary. — |  Donald Phillipson, 4180 Boundary Road, Carlsbad Springs,  | |        Ontario, Canada, K0A 1K0, tel. 613 822 0734         |

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Howdy everyone!  I am in the planning stages of a trip to South-West Alaska.  I have this brochure from Alaska Fish and Game that tells of the fishing conditions on Prince of Wales Island.  From the description I read it sounds like a cross between the Henry’s Fork and New Zealand, ie pristine streams packed with rainbows and grayling.  Then I talked to my friend who was there two years ago and he said Prince of Wales Island is a clear-cut eyesore with only small trout.  What gives?  Can anyone confirm or deny this situation? -John —      Its not that flyfishing is everything, it is just that everything      else in my life is less important.                                                      -Moi

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Howdy everyone!  I am in the planning stages of a trip to South-West Alaska.  I have this brochure from Alaska Fish and Game that tells of the fishing conditions on Prince of Wales Island.  From the description I read it sounds like a cross between the Henry’s Fork and New Zealand, ie pristine streams packed with rainbows and grayling.  Then I talked to my friend who was there two years ago and he said Prince of Wales Island is a clear-cut eyesore with only small trout.  What gives?  Can anyone confirm or deny this situation? -John —     Its not that flyfishing is everything, it is just that everything     else in my life is less important.                                                     -Moi

It depends on where you are.  It is possible to be a quarter mile from a clear-cut area and think you are in a pristine forest.  The only way to get a good look at these ugly scars is from the air.  The lumber industry keeps telling everyone that they can harvest at a renewable sustained yield.  Then they come to Alaska and chop down old growth forests with Uncle Sam underwriting the cost.  The main players are Japanese firms that turn the trees into pulp, I guess they use it for VCR instruction books. BTW if you go to southwest Alaska you’ll be about 1,000 miles from POW Island. R. Wood in Alaska

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Forget it. Nothing but frustration in store for you. Get some float tubes instead.

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I would like some information regarding the usefullneess of this boat for two persons flyfishing. Specifically:

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I am trying to answer the following fishing facts, that maybe some of you have the answers to: 1.      What is the current world record for King Salmon? Where was it caught and when? 2.      What is the current world record for Rainbow Trout and when was it caught? 3.      The Rainbow Trout world record used to be something like 42 lbs from Lake Pend Oreille. If that record does not still hold, what were the details surrounding that old record? If you know any of these, please e-mail to *                                                                       * * "Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyperverbosity or prolixity."          *

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1.     What is the current world record for King Salmon? Where was it caught and when?  97 1/4 lbs, 1986.  This was in an article in this month’s Salmon, Trout,  and Steelheader magazine.  greg pavlov

…and, caught on the Kenai River, AK.  It was a big second-run king. -tgades

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1.  What is the current world record for King Salmon? Where was it caught and when?

The record sport-caught King was ninety some pounds, caught in Alaska’s Kenai River.  The record commercially-netted king was in excess of 120 lbs, as I recall, caught in the Cook Inlet. Several years ago a sport fisherman on the Kenai tied into what experienced guides believed was a King exceeding 120 lbs.  The guy played it for several days (sic) before it finally broke off.  It was kind of fun to check the newspaper every morning and see how the fight was going. — -Wayne Trzyna

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While where on the record… Does anyone know the flyfishing record for arctic grayling?  I can only find an all tackle record. Thanks, Lynn – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am trying to answer the following fishing facts, that maybe some of you have the answers to: 1. What is the current world record for King Salmon? Where was it caught and when? 2. What is the current world record for Rainbow Trout and when was it caught? 3. The Rainbow Trout world record used to be something like 42 lbs from Lake Pend Oreille. If that record does not still hold, what were the details surrounding that old record? If you know any of these, please e-mail to *                                                                       * * "Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyperverbosity or prolixity."          *

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The Rio Penasco between Cloudcroft and Artesia is a fine little trout stream.  Not very well known.  The Messilla Valley Flyfishers (a club from Las Cruces) manages the water and has negotiated access from owners.  Some really nice browns call it home. It should be within a couple of hours of El Paso.  We routinely fish it from Lubbock (4 hours in a fast car).  Give it a try it may be just what you want.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Xref: news.indirect.com rec.outdoors.fishing.fly:12250 Path: news.indirect.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.mega web.co m!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!prodigy.com!usenet Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing.fly Organization: Prodigy Services Company  1-800-PRODIGY Lines: 7 Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: inugap3.news.prodigy.com X-Newsreader: Version 1.2 I’m interested to know if anyone has ever fished on the GILA RIVER or in the GILA Wilderness.  I’m not a novice fisherman, but I’m living in El Paso Texas now and the flyfishing possibilities are limited.  I’v heard of the GILA RIVER but have never fished.  If anyone has any info on where to go fishing in New Mex besides the San Juan River, your help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your help!

I’ve never fished the Gila, but their are many streams worthy of a trip north. Just a few of them are: The Jemez, The Guadalupe, and the San Antonio, all of them within an hour and a half of Albuquerque. Other streams further North are the Pecos, Rio Grande, and the Red River below the hatchery.

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I’m interested to know if anyone has ever fished on the GILA RIVER or in the GILA Wilderness.  I’m not a novice fisherman, but I’m living in El Paso Texas now and the flyfishing possibilities are limited.  I’v heard of the GILA RIVER but have never fished.  If anyone has any info on where to go fishing in New Mex besides the San Juan River, your help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your help!

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I am trying to get the email address for the fly fishing mailing list and instructions for getting myself added to the distribution list.  Please reply to me using the address below if you have any information.  Thanks in advance. -Roger.  Roger S. Barga     |   Department of Computer Science and Engineering                     | Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (503) 690-1121 7308 |                Portland, OR 97291-1000

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I am trying to get the email address for the fly fishing mailing list and instructions for getting myself added to the distribution list.  Please reply to me using the address below if you have any information.  Thanks in advance.

How about posting it here, too, for the rest of us… Rick

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