Monthly Archives: April 2012

Frack-Free Headwaters, Please

Posted on April 29, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Governor Andrew Cuomo and assorted bigwigs from the New York State Democratic Party were scheduled to meet at the Corning Radisson Hotel for an elaborate powwow on the evening of April 27. Many people of western New York were interested … Continue reading →

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Leeks and Lilacs, Down

Posted on April 24, 2012 by rivertoprambles

I knew the Earth Day storm was coming. I didn’t fish, oddly enough. It was chill and drizzly most of the day. I had minor tasks to complete at home. A “Nor’easter” was blowing toward the state. By morning there … Continue reading →

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The Slate Run Odyssey, Part 6

Posted on April 22, 2012 by rivertoprambles

As always, please click on photos to enhance image… At last report from my upstream hike along Slate Run, I had made it to the Manor Falls without seeing many trout. Today I continued the fishing but didn’t make it far … Continue reading →

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Rose Brook Reverie

Posted on April 19, 2012 by rivertoprambles

I pulled off the gravel road in the lower Rose Brook valley, one of my favorite native trout streams in New York. A raven flew across the valley and croaked its one-note greeting. A phoebe flew out from its nesting … Continue reading →

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Walking into the Past (A God Game)

Posted on April 16, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Before Chris Peterson left western New York journalism for the wilds of Montana, he published a list of his favorite wild trout streams in our region. Each stream got a few words from his own fishing experiences. On Fulmer Valley Brook: like walking into the … Continue reading →

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So God Lives in a Farmpond, Too?

Posted on April 12, 2012 by rivertoprambles

I’ll agree that fishing can be a religious experience. I’ll agree that God can be applied to the acts of solitary fishing but, as far as I’m concerned, there’s no unifying entity that has anthropomorphic features. In my opinion, there’s no great … Continue reading →

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The Steelhead Access Blues

Posted on April 10, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Spooner Creek is one of two or three exceptional steelhead spawning streams in western New York. Fishing is closed on Spooner from New Year’s Day till April 1, so  the large adult rainbows that have traveled from Lake Erie can reproduce … Continue reading →

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Blueliner (for Natives)

Posted on April 8, 2012 by rivertoprambles

I’ve always loved those thin blue lines on topographic maps. I’ve liked their free-form routes through the hills and mountains leading to the larger creeks and rivers that depend on them for sustenance. Those squiggly blue lines on topo maps … Continue reading →

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The Drop-Back

Posted on April 4, 2012 by rivertoprambles

Rainbow trout typically move out of the New York Finger Lakes in late winter and early spring to spawn in various feeder streams such as Naples Creek. Typically there’s some good angling in these tributaries when the trout season officially … Continue reading →

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The Slate Run Odyssey, Part 5

Posted on April 1, 2012 by rivertoprambles

 I recently had my first spring opportunity of the year to visit Slate Run in north-central Pennsylvania where I picked up the thread of the fishing/hiking trek that I began last October and then recorded through four early posts on Rivertop Rambles. Following the spring meeting of … Continue reading →

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