8 days 4 States 3 Waters
The kids are 8 and 4 this year and so my wife and I thought we can finally take a family vacation without too much of a hassel with the kids. We elected to see the fall colors of the north-east RI, MA, CT, NY. We hit the peak colors in near perfect timing. Somewhere in MA...
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Because it was a family trip, I limited it to one morning of fishing in each state.
West Yarmouth, (Cape Cod) MA- Waking up about 1/2 hour before sun-up on our 2nd day in Cape Cod, I drove to a bridge where the river that led to a rockjetty I had previously scouted. The water was alive with schoolies. I casted my bastardized Clouser pattern (not a very good fly tier
) and was immediately on to fish which measured to be about 18" to hand. Went on to catch 3 more in the next hour. Tried another spot but struck out so I returned to the bridge. It was slow when I returned but I managed one more very large striper that I fought for a few minutes bending my 8wt nearly double before he finally "schooled" me by rubbing the leader up against the rocks and breaking the line. The business owner/mgr. of the property asked that I did not divulge this location but the river/bridge is opposite of this marshy area...
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Farmington River, CT:I woke up at 5AM and headed to the "Farm". It was so dark at one point that I wasn't even sure what side of the road the river was on since I forgot my river map. Not knowing that I was at the turn out for the Upper TMA, I felt pretty lost so I turned around and headed down the mountain. When there was just enough light, I spotted a sign for a distintly named park I remembered from looking at the map previous times. I fished here for 2 hours but had to get back to my family and to travel to visit other family in CT. Failed to find any fish but enjoyed the location tremendously.
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Burnt Hills, NY Before heading to the Big Apple, we visited a this wonderful little town. Local family members directed me to a nearby creek (a good size river for a Californian like me). Again, I've gotta keep it hush hush but there were some fish; unfortunately, I managed to break my bamboo rod at the ferrule so I only had about 1 hour to fish and did not hook any during that time. Sorry no pics (a little too upset at the time).
Though disappointed about the breakage, I see it as a good reason to revisit the NE another time to try again...
"I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy nobody but him, and him only that catches more fish than I do." Izaak Walton
God Bless and Tight Lines ----*<(((>< ~ ~ ~