Brook
trout and the NYS Conservationist: Ever
so often a photograph we take while hiking or fishing these Catskills is used
by some agency, whether it is NYS DEC, USGS, Soil & Water, a local town, or
someone else; and we are flattered, happy to be of help. Recently the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation used one such photo, in their website announcing the
2016 trout season and also on the rear cover of the April issue of NYS
Conservationist magazine. That brook trout
was caught, and released, on the upper reaches of the East Branch of the Neversink
on September 3rd, 2015 using a #16 Sofa Pillow dry fly--- a western
classic--- and an A.J. Thramer F.E. Thomas Fairy 3 weight cane rod, a sweet
piece of bamboo for late summer brook trout fishing.
Not
the typical landscape, but an underwater finny creature with scales and a fly
stuck in its mouth.
But first, the April NYS Conservationist:
Brook trout and the Sofa Pillow, 11x14:
