Beaverkill & Willowemoc this Spring

[carlfieldtester]

If any of you here plan on coming up to the Roscoe area for some trout fishing, please feel free to give me a shout. Roscoe has been my home turf for almost 20 years now and I do fish the local streams, rivers and reservoirs quite often.

 

[flounderjoe]

Good to know .Spend a fare amount money there .But i spend most of my fishing time on the other side of the mountain on the esopus

 

[carlfieldtester]

Good to know .Spend a fare amount money there .But i spend most of my fishing time on the other side of the mountain on the esopus

The Esopus is a fine place also but there has been a breach in the NYC water tunnel and the water has been muddied up for the past couple of years in the Phoneica area. I understand that it will be quiet a project to repair it.

 

[george]

Hey Carl, my place is about 1/2 -an hour south of you so I might take you up on that. I'm supposed to do a drift trip on the Delaware starting in Rosco in a few weeks. That stretch down to the Lackawaxan.

I also have a tracker bass boat up there and I'm always looking for new places to fish, and people to fish with

 

[Chevy1]

Hey Carl, my place is about 1/2 -an hour south of you so I might take you up on that. I'm supposed to do a drift trip on the Delaware starting in Rosco in a few weeks. That stretch down to the Lackawaxan.

I also have a tracker bass boat up there and I'm always looking for new places to fish, and people to fish with

Take me ?

 

[george]

Take me ?

Yours always welcome.

 

[flounderjoe]

The esopus has been fishing fine for the past 6 or so years the tunnel water releases are more under control and they are working on the problem for the last 2 winters .The portal has been and is closed for the last till april as they put new valves in the diversion dam and fix up the tunnel siltation issues.Its muddiness is more from eroding clay banks on some of its feeder creeks.But shhh ! dont spread this around roscoe .

 

[carlfieldtester]

Hey Carl, my place is about 1/2 -an hour south of you so I might take you up on that. I'm supposed to do a drift trip on the Delaware starting in Rosco in a few weeks. That stretch down to the Lackawaxan.

I also have a tracker bass boat up there and I'm always looking for new places to fish, and people to fish with

It would be great to get together up here again, I think its been over 10 years since you were up at mine.
That Drift boat fishing does produce well. My buddy Phil has a place on the river just before Hancock and that's all he does and keeps me updated. I was down at the Junction pool today, the water is nice an clear with a slow snow melt, its looking good for the opener with not major storms in the forecast for next week.
Lets put that tracker to some good use on some of the bigger lakes.
Also, if you want to fish the Pepacton, I have a boat at the Pump House ready to go as soon as the ice clears.
So many choices and so little time these days !

 

[carlfieldtester]

The esopus has been fishing fine for the past 6 or so years the tunnel water releases are more under control and they are working on the problem for the last 2 winters .The portal has been and is closed for the last till april as they put new valves in the diversion dam and fix up the tunnel siltation issues.Its muddiness is more from eroding clay banks on some of its feeder creeks.But shhh ! dont spread this around roscoe .

Glad to hear this update Joe. Nice that the repairs are in and I'll keep the crowds down by me as usual.......lol

 

[FredAZaiter]

WOW...Great memories for me..I used to go every opening day to Fly fishing the Roscoe Area them from there take a ride with my friend's John Lane and Jonh Lafonte,to the Esopus river...Now all I do flyfishing Cross river outlet,great fishing there in the reservoir for Bass too..

 

[carlfieldtester]

A bit nippy for tomorrow's opener. I think that I will wait for the late afternoon warmup.....

Roscoe Forecast: National Weather Service

 

[flounderjoe]

How did the ceremonial first cast go today

 

[carlfieldtester]

How did the ceremonial first cast go today

Well Joe, I woke up this morning to a few inches of new snow with white out conditions on top of the mountain where I live. Temps were in the high twenties. I decided not to venture out. Late in the day I spoke with a buddy of mine who was down at Junction Pool in the early AM. He said there was about 10 guys making that first cast and continued for over an hour but no action at all. Same for over at the upper Willowemoc later in the day from him as well. Some sun forecasted for Wed, will give it a try then.

 

[flounderjoe]

Mine went kind of the same way up at 6am went out to let the chickens out ,31deg blowing like hell .went back to bed .Finally left the house at 11am went to the carmens in southhaven park met some fellow club members two casts one rainbow task accomplished its opening day.Even though we kind of have a year round trout season on L.I There is still a couple of places were we can celabrate OPENING DAY!

 

[carlfieldtester]

Nice to hear of that rainbow down at Southaven, that brings back some good memories for me. Its 19 deg here this morning, I'm headed up along the Willowemoc to Mongaup State Park and see what the day brings later with the temps. Maybee......if not tomorrow.

 

[carlfieldtester]

This afternoon turned out pretty nice, Mongaup Pond is still frozen over but the spillway and upper Willowemoc was flowing nice and clear. My son and I fished the first access down from the Hatchery. Only a couple of bumps for me but the guy out in the middle had a nice one around 15" after changing over from a fly to a phebe. Tomorrow.........

 

[george]

I'm surprised it's still frozen over. I'm sure it's getting better by the day.

 

[carlfieldtester]

I'm surprised it's still frozen over. I'm sure it's getting better by the day.

Its been a cold one, slow thaw for sure - 23 deg again this morning. I plan to try the Cooks Falls section later area this afternoon.
We will see....

 

[carlfieldtester]

Success !