Maine Winter Rivers 2008-9

Some local not so well know streams that had the opportunity to fish in Spring 2009. Mostly Brookies. Black caddis with and orange thorax in size 22 was the only fly that produced. After buying some local Umpqua flies I found that the local bugs were not all black. On the Androscoggin River a fellow handed me some of his own ties and right away I noticed they had the orange like the locals. It made the difference.

East Branch Wint 2011

East Branch Winter/Spring 2011 high waters. Rainbow haven

Croton Falls Wint 2011 Pics

Croton Falls Winter/Spring 2011 High waters

Mt Kisco Park Spring 2011 flood

Any question as to why the Croton Watershed levels were high this 2011 Spring here are some pics after the rain fall in Bedford NY. Mount Kisco Lenard Park was almost reclaimed back to the lake it once was. The river running through the park became a pond. The guess and ducks had a FIELD (?) day. It you liked, a Kayak to the ball field would have done well. You could have almost rowed to the drive thru parking lot at Friendly's

Croton Watershed 2010-11 Ice fish

Was it a cold winter, the bugs thought so. The Croton East Branch must have seemed so too. The river did not want to give up its normal take of rainbows for most of us. The spillway did not give us the normal heavy flow. Precipitation came to us more as snow than rain. The reservoirs did something not seen for a number of years, they not only froze, it happened early. Last few years we were happy with a week to a month of ice fishing. Unlike places like Maine that freeze over well by the first week of December, some of us here pray for some ice at all. Well this year we had are plenty as ALL the reservoirs did freeze. So we had some other use for our warm weather gear other than hunting or skiing.
Here are a few poorly taken pictures with my 10 year old digital, that kept freezing up its memory while out on the chilly ice. Again here this year I found young new comers braving the temperatures to get in on some ice fishing. The fellow in the plaid red jacket was the second place winner with a 11" Brookie only out placed by a 12" Brown in the Mt. Kisco NY youngster fishing derbie.

Croton West Branch

Henrickson's 14's have made a serodic appearence on the upper West Branch Croton.