{"id":8837,"date":"2011-09-12T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.net\/dacks\/2011\/09\/trip-report-2.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:17:47","slug":"trip-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.net\/dacks\/2011\/09\/trip-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishbrook Pond – Trip Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nI had a great weekend sitting on the shore of a little pond nestled between Sleeping Beauty<\/b> and Black Mountain.<\/b> I hiked into Fishbrook Pond<\/b> on Saturday evening and stayed until just before noon on Sunday. Had I known that the weather was going to be perfect and the fish were going to be biting<\/b>, I would have hiked in Friday and made a weekend out of it. Regardless, I had a great time.<\/p>\nHiking In<\/h2>\n
My friend Josh and I got to the trail head at about 4:30pm, a little later than I had planned. I thought that I would be able to drive up to Dacy Clearing<\/b>, however, the stop barrier was closed<\/b>. So we had to park at the Hogtown Trail parking lot and walk the additional mile and a half to Dacy Clearing. This wasn’t too much of a hindrance, but a 2 mile hike is quite a bit easier than a 4 mile hike with full packs on. That makes two things<\/i> that didn’t go as planned so far, and we weren’t even on the trail yet.<\/p>\n
From Dacy Clearing we hiked a little ways, maybe 1\/2 mile and came to a fork in the trail. There was one DEC sign that showed the trail to Sleeping Beauty<\/b>, and underneath it was a little plastic trail marker that someone had written “Fishbrook Pond, 1.9 m<\/b>” with an arrow pointing away from the Sleeping Beauty trail in magic marker. I had looked at a map prior to hitting the woods, so I expected a left turn at this fork<\/b>. An upgrade in the signage at this point on the trail would be helpful. When later reviewing the journals at the two lean-tos at Fishbrook Pond, we saw that several people had made a wrong turn and ended up here accidentally<\/i>.<\/p>\n
After taking a left at the fork, the trail becomes moderately steep, and follows a somewhat dry (depending on the weather) creek bed, switching back up the hill<\/b>.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This portion of the trail was almost more difficult to hike down on the way out than it was to hike up on the way in. We walked for a mile or so and came up to Bumps Pond<\/b> on the right hand side of the trail. At first glance, we thought we might want to stay here for the night, but camping is restricted to certain areas that are several hundred feet away from the trail and the water<\/b>, so we pressed onward.<\/p>\n
After another mile or so of wet, winding trail, we arrived at Fishbrook Pond. We walked up to the lean-to on the south end of the large pond to find a neatly stacked pile of firewood, complete with enough kindling and logs to last the entire night. Wow, quite nice of whoever stayed last time to gather and stack firewood for the next visitors! We looked around for a bit before noticing another lean-to almost directly across the pond<\/b> from here. The whole point of this trip was for us to do a bit of fly fishing<\/b>, and there really wasn’t anywhere here where we could make full casts without standing in the water, or snagging a tree on every<\/i> back cast. So we decided to pass on the full night worth of firewood and head to the second lean-to.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We made the right choice. The lean-to on the north side of Fishbrook Pond <\/b>sits on a point, with a large, exposed rock shelf between the campsite and the water<\/b>.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This location was good for fishing as we could both cast into the pond without worrying about snagging anything. We arrived at our destination at about 6:30pm.<\/p>\n