one extreme to the other…

our trip to the salmon river in western ny was a sucessful one despite the fact that the river was flowing at 6000+ c.f.s! Ideal levels on this river in my mind are between 750 and 12oo c.f.s so you can see what we were working with! However we made the best of it and brought quiet a few fish to net and lost many others to the ripping currents! spirits were high despite sideways rain changing to snow, I believe that the P.B.R. and Lagavulin 16yr scotch had a little something to do with it but whose to say when your heart is pounding so hard from hooking into a steelhead! check out the photos which accompany this post.  on the local front the story is just the opposite a general lack of rain is making its presence known, the rivers are down well below normal and we really could use a good drencher. I was up in the N.E.K yesterday for steelhead and brought alot of suckers to the bank and one nice VT steelie to the net. all in all everyone is reporting good thing from our local rivers and may is just around the corner…..with our luck it will rain all month. When it comes to the weather it just seems like there is no such thing as moderation! good luck to you all and I hope you enjoy the photos. Dave