{"id":8645,"date":"2011-08-08T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.net\/dacks\/2011\/08\/fish-not-expected.html"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:02:00","slug":"fish-not-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.net\/dacks\/2011\/08\/fish-not-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Not What I Expected, But I Did Catch Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"
What better way to spend an afternoon off than rounding up the fishing gear<\/b> and heading into the woods to try to catch some trout? That’s what I did with my afternoon yesterday, and I had a little bit of luck. I was able to land three fish, and probably missed a dozen. These fish however, were a bit different<\/b> from what I was expecting.<\/p>\n
I was fishing on a small stream that connects a few lakes at the southern tip of the Adirondack Park<\/a>. I have fished these waters before, and have taken both trout and bass from the connected lakes. There was no doubt in my mind that this stream was full of fish.<\/b><\/p>\n Still sticking to Tom Rosenbauer’s advice<\/a>, I picked up a few Parachute Adams at the local fly shop and headed to the water. Still without a pair of waders, I crept into the stream wearing my river shorts and was fishing by 5:00pm. I warmed up a little and started producing long, somewhat accurate casts.<\/p>\n I am quite pleased with the way my abilities are developing.<\/b> Earlier in the summer my line was getting tangled and snagged, and occasionally came crashing into my rod only to fall, bunched-up into the stream at my feet. Now I have the timing down a little better, and am more focused on keeping my rod at a uniform plane<\/b> throughout the casting stroke. This has helped me quite a bit.<\/p>\n At about 5:30pm I start to hear and see signs of fish rising for food<\/b> off the surface of the water. I begin casting near the disturbances in the surface, and after a few tries, I get a bite<\/b> – which I miss. Another three or four casts and I get another. I fished like this, up the stream for about 2 hours. I hooked a few fish, but landed only three, all of which were a species I believe to be Fallfish<\/i>. These look like big bait fish, which aggravated me somewhat.<\/b> I thought to myself, “why can’t people dispose of their shiners responsibly? So that I can catch trout rather than these ugly things.” Turns out, these fish are everywhere in NYS, as I found on the NYSDEC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The fishing was fun, even though I wasn’t catching what I set out for. And I did get to practice setting hooks, adjusting line slack, and playing fish. So I was not successful in catching trout for dinner. However, I was successful in working on my skills:<\/b> presenting flies, casting into tricky spots, landing fish.<\/p>\n What constitutes “success<\/i>” for you when you go fishing? Is it a creel full of fish? A trophy big enough to hang on your wall? Is success determined by what you caught, or what you learned?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What better way to spend an afternoon off than rounding up the fishing gear and heading into the woods to try to catch some trout? That’s what I did with my afternoon yesterday, and I had a little bit of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing"],"yoast_head":"\r\n