chowder

Doc and I seemed destined to fish under adverse conditions this year. Continuing the trend was our outing yesterday. For a very brief 15 minutes all seemed well after clearing the break wall and then quickly things deteriorated as a nasty west wind freshened up and breakers formed as we were getting lines out. We lost a first fish to a break off and then struggled to hold course westward eventually giving up and trolling south. Somewhere east of the break wall we got traction on the browns and slammed some real beauties. After realizing we were going to limit soon we turned back towards the launch which left Doc to handle the last couple by himself due to the necessity of clinging to the wheel on my part. Similar to my last outing the fish seemed to be podded up with out a clear connection to anything. This trip the bay rat BT took 1/2 and the black silver yozuris the other 1/2. Our fish mostly came in 12 fow, speed was ‘ god only knows ‘

Nice post- have to try the divers next time out

No docks, just dropped it in and motored over to a rickety ‘dock’ behind the north to pickup the crew and then power loaded apon return. Not bad at all. Water is a bit low.

Sweet, did the car come with it

Good times fishing cold water the last couple days. Fished east and west of the breakwall in 20-3’ ran sticks behind the big boards at 1.6-2.5. Fish seemed to be in pockets not related to temp and got most in 37 to 38 degree water. We ran a varying range of colors and shapes but almost all came on black silver 3” yozuri and 3” bass pro stx yozuri clones. 1 coho hit a lime bay rat and 1 brown hit a yellow smith wick.

Spring Striper fishing techniques are pretty location specific. In general baits begin to diverge as you go down river. The Kingston area is where you see the most trolling. It's a great way to cover water and use gear you may already have. Schoolies (small to medium fish) can produce a lot of action and we have certainly caught big fish trolling as well. So there is a lot of ways to skin a cat on the Hudson. Just remember it's really all about having fun

I packed in mine. Maybe I wasn’t supposed to. I saw few tracks but didn’t really scout much. This time of year my hunting is very focused on coyotes.

Treman must be one of the Deer management pieces this year. We hunted one last year maybe it was “Buttermilk “ I took a doe in there after 7 hours of seeing nothing . What have your experiences with these hunts been

Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you. Yeah, Reel Doc and chowder got eaten by the bear yesterday. Launch was frozen in, main didn’t wanna start fish ,mood was ultra negative electronics quit. But through it all we laughed , drank beer and most importantly survived the coldest open water day we ever tried to fish

Deep rigger was 50' w/ a spoon, deep diver was 60' w/ a spoon- only Lakers on either one. I couldn't run boards, way too rough.

No- not a soul there

I actually love my I/O Islander it’s just to big to haul around on ice covered roads. I’ve spent years getting my little 1st boat to the place it is now it is joy to be out in Oct to May

We met up in the pitch dark at T-falls to a howling North wind. Since we are both older, married men with children the following conversation ensued: ‘man it’s honking ‘ ‘yeah let’s make sure we’ve got clearance under the bridge’ . So after taking down the mast we got out of the channel and into a rough breaking swell and headed north. Our wheel man did an exceptional job of warning me of incoming boomers as I swore my way through getting the riggers set after which I collapsed into the 2nd seat safe out of the gale in the little wheel house with a welcome cup of coffee.Eventually got divers out and a flat chute line. Had really wanted to run boards but it was out of the question. Everything took fish. Salmon only hit the flat line with the Renofsky/ Z man stick. Best laker rig was a dipsy pulling a chicken wing DW. Riggers at 40 and 50 with Diehard and Gator took a couple. Seneca special with a Ryan Kopke fly took only 1 laker but it was the biggest. Fished 60 to 300 fow at speeds from 2 to 4+ mph (boat control was pretty minimal). Great day on the water, looking forward to next weekend!

Put my outside rod in the low rod holder of my Muddy Creek tree. It's still pretty parallel to the water but up higher (longer rod too)

Without a doubt the way to go.