Stenonema Vicarium  March Brown nymphs are one of the most important food sources of the early season for trout in our area.  Imitations of 12 and even 10 work well in the higher flows of spring runoff.  The nymphs are clingers and can be found in faster water attached to rocks and logs.  They are […]

From the Order of Diptera ot “True Flies”   and the Family of Chironomidae, Midges are an important food source year round.  In the northeast, they become important in the slow, clear water of the fall and winter when the other hatches are finished.  They are also an important food source all summer long in stillwater […]

Brown and Black Stoneflies are the first bugs of the season for the Northeast.  They crawl out of the water on the shoreline only returning to the water to lay their eggs.  Most of the bugs seen on the water are laying eggs or oviposting.  They become vulnerable to trout at this time.  Otherwise, nymph […]

Ephemerella subvaria nymphs photographed in New York’s Capital Region 4-14-08.  Judging from the amount collected, it’s going to be a good hatch this year.  
 

 
Hendricksons start hatching in the northeast after night time water temps stop dipping below 50 degrees for three nights in a row.  After the hatch starts however, it usually will continue through […]

Good News!  The Angler’s Net blog has been added to the Hatches Magazine Network.  Now you can get your Capital Region Fly Fishing fix in 2 places.  Of course just like the Cartoon Network and the TBS’s Family Guy episodes, they are the same but you’ll watch them anyways because, what else you gonna watch […]

Hang with me on this one, it’s going to be a bumpy rant and I’m not even sure where I am going. 
In the northeast, unlike our western fly fishing counterparts, there is a constant battle between what our trout fisheries could be, and what they really are.  While states like Montana, Wyoming and Colorado […]

You have to love opening day of trout season.  It’s not so much a date, even though, technically it opens April 1, opening day for me is more of a fluid idea.  The first is just a date where the limited choices of the winter are broadened.  Open day, for me is that day when you […]

Petition
Hello everyone
The Association for the Protection of Salmon and Pentecote River is gearing up to present at the end of APRIL their petition to
Mr. Jean Charest, Prime Minister of Québec,
Mr. Claude Béchard, Minister of Natural Resources
Mme Line Beauchamp, Minister of Environment
Mme Laurence Méthot, Mayor of Port Cartier
We now need your help to collect  signatures by […]

She’s my favorite little pushy tail on the river. She fishes well in most flows but the meaner the river gets overall, the better she shines. In low water, she turns to mush in the middle but she always seems to retain that beautiful tail. And in the opener, she was looking hot and bothered. […]

In February, 2 dogs broke into a local waterfowl breeding farm and crushed it
But man, what happened to all those feathers?