Ramblings of a Catskill Flyfisher
Nymph fishing in the Madison River, West Yellowstone, MT

My diary tells me the last time I fished the Madison River, near West Yellowstone, MT, was in late August. As with the Catskills, Montana rivers have their own sequence of hatches—when they …

A change in feeding behavior of Ashokan Reservoir rainbow trout

Rainbow trout were first stocked in tributaries of the Esopus Creek in 1883, taken from California stocks.  As those fish matured and reproduced, offspring spread throughout the watershed. …

The other side of the river

Almost all of the fly fishing stories that I have written for the River Reporter have been about the famous rivers of the Catskill Mountains. While that region is steeped in history and tradition and …