Ramblings of a Catskill Flyfisher

Fishing Lolo Creek in Montana

Lolo Creek enters the Bitterroot River at Lolo, MT, roughly 10 miles southwest of Missoula. The creek starts at the summit of Lolo Pass and flows approximately 35 miles before entering the …

Access issues continue for the East Branch of the Delaware River

Not long ago, the NYSDEC’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) determined that the Delaware River and its two branches were considered federally navigable waters by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. …

Fly fishing with Karen Graham

It’s interesting and somewhat ironic how certain sporting venues change dramatically once certain celebrities become involved. For example, fly fishing as we knew it, let’s say about 30 years or …

The other river creatures

As fly-fishing anglers, most of us approach a river with a certain intensity, especially when we find a good hatch of flies and rising trout. Under those conditions, it is very easy to become …

To know and love a river

I began to fish the East Branch of the Delaware River below the Pepacton Reservoir as a teenager, in 1958 or ‘59. That was a long time before the adoption of the water release regulations was …

Sulphurs in the mist

I’m not sure whether it was the summer of 1989 or 1990, when my friend Bill and I began to fish together. I do remember that we purchased an RV at the end of May in 1989. We kept it at Oxbow …