Posts tagged “brook trout

Fight Like Meat

Posted on April 9, 2013

There is no known reason for a trout to be in this pond. It is a warm water pond of municipal park vintage with no appreciable depth, a small battery of largemouth and one billion bluegill. The bluegill hit flies when the sun is out and are at the ready when a lunchtime bend is needed. The bass have seen too many lures to let their guard down often, but when they do the results ripple through the entire containment. In October a truck shows up full of trout and people line the banks and fill buckets. They are typically cleaned out within days, their long term prospects on par with the tank lobsters at the diner. Honestly, from my vantage point I thought…

The Drinking Man’s Guide To Drinking

Posted on February 3, 2012

He was a Brit living in Singapore and he smoked cigarettes that smelled like incense. He kept buying us expensive vodka as a reward for our work and, at some point, suggested it would be a good idea to snort it. He turned out to be a fisherman and he told stories about chasing trout in Pakistan and we chose to believe him. He headed an agency branch and traveled Asia to work on ad campaigns and he appreciated our mindless intern support over here. He wanted us to try absinthe but of course we couldn’t get it so he ordered some 100 proof. Abby started to slump in her chair and I found myself unable to stop talking about this one Adirondack brook…

More on the Connetquot Matter

Posted on March 26, 2009

Of interest mainly to people in the NYC Metro: My buddy Stefan wanted to find out more about the Connetquot and forwarded me this email response he got. On Behalf of Ronald F. Foley, Regional Director, LI Region March 25, 2009 Dear Mr.REDACTED : On Behalf of Commissioner Carol Ash, I am writing in response to your e-mail of   March 19, 2009 concerning the Connetquot River State Park Preserve Hatchery. Trout in the Connetquot River and hatchery have tested positive for Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPN).  We are working closely with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to address the matter. No trout will be hatched or raised in the hatchery this coming season in order to give us time to both develop…

Bad Hatchery Craziness

Posted on March 13, 2009

This Ken Shultz article came out just before the NY State DEC discovered IPN. The Connetquot represents in one localized microcosm the best and the worst of a hatchery sustained fishery. On the one hand, a stream this close to such high population density could never support pure wild fish with unrestricted access to them. Operating a stream on a pay-to-reserve English beat system with a carefully managed stocking program allows for solitude rather than shoulder to shoulder and the chance to fish larger than normal brown, brook, and rainbow trout. On the other hand, it is not reality. On the one hand, the big sea runs and the cagey eight-pound holdovers with the hooked jaws exist in numbers not seen in normalcy. On…

Skunk Hour*

Posted on March 12, 2009

What happens when a Montauk Surf Vampire and saltwater guy with a slight Florida ditch obsession conspire to fish a trout stream? Nothing. More later on the state of said trout stream, stocked, and the ongoing efforts to de-stock it in hopes of restocking it later. In a word, bizarre. [UPDATE: Jason did in fact hook and land a rainbow, but I had blocked it out of my memory.] *(With apologies to Robert Lowell)

  

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