The North Platte is Fishing Well

Well, here is somewhere I wish I was right now...
AB and his Dad having some pretty solid luck out in Casper...wish I was there.

New York State Opener 2012

This being the first blog entry in a very, very long time; I figure it to be relatively suiting that this is a story about my first day on the water this season for the New York trout opener. My buddy Shawn and I planned to fish a stretch that we had figured to be about a six hour float. Most people don't float this stretch of river, and it proved to be a wise move as every inch of river that could be accessed by foot, was. From the state line to our put-in there were throngs of fisherman lining the banks every place you could see the river from the road. We heard later that some buddies had to head significantly further downstream than planned to find open water. So, we decided to start relatively early (meet at 8:30 to be on the water at 9:30). This timing would put us home early to happy wives. This being April Fool's day and all,