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 …
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. …
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 …