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New York State Sport Fish Restoration Program

Found this interesting… read it today.  We’re spending a lot of money chasing little fishes around.

Each year, more than a million anglers take to New York’s waters in the hopes of catching one or more of the state’s wide diversity of fish species. Trout, salmon, largemouth and smallmouth bass, pike, walleye, muskellunge, catfish, panfish, striped bass, bluefish, scup, black seabass, flounders and weakfish are just a few of the fish species found here.

Freshwater anglers annually take about 21 million fishing trips and spend $1.5 billion pursuing this sport. Saltwater anglers annually take about four million trips and spend more than one billion dollars.

NYS Sport Fish Restoration Program 

More Rain, Rising Water

Woke up to a good rain again this morning.  Considering water levels I saw yesterday, those of you that rush out Opening Day for trout better bring the chest waders.  Actually, the issue is more sluggish trout due to cold water.  maybe a nice warm rain will actually help for tomorrow.Mid day update:  Looks like the weather stayed relatively decent today.  Water may have dropped a bit.Word on the street though is a front blowing through tomorrow.I know that won’t keep some of the bridges and by ways from being elbow to elbow, targeting stocked browns on Oatka Creek, and some natives of course.  
 

Oatka Creek Water Flow Video

[youtube WAsfoFWZAdE]Unfortunately, Youtubes video quality makes it tough for me to represent what I want here.  In essence, I’d like to post a series of videos that represent the Oatka Creek at different flow levels, and then show you the DEC graph for each so you can better interpret them.Hopefully, i can find a better way to do this, since the clarity of a Youtube video presently defeats the purpose, in a way. 

Interesting Nymphing Article

Another article I bumped into this morning (too much reading, too little fishing).

It has instructions and a video on tying the The Czech Nymph.

Czech nymphing is a style of fishing that originated in central and eastern Europe. It was first introduced to western anglers through the cross pollination that is a natural by-product of competition. The 1984 international fly fishing competition in Poland exposed the Czech competitors to the method, which is one of fishing at short distances. It’s said that most of the Polish competitors were forced to fish short, because they had no fishing lines at disposal and had to substitute them with thick nylon monofilament.

I’ll be adding a few of these for my box for summer trout and small mouth.

Oatka: How do YOU say it?

Based on this post over at the Sander’s Fishing Guide website, I felt it necessary to comment.

I’m a native Buffalonian, but I’ve been living in Scottsville, NY for about 6 years now. One of the posters in the forum linked above made mention of the “nasaly” Rochester accent. Having lived both places, I guess I don’t find it as distinct as he does.

I have noticed though that many of the Scottsville locals do call it oh-AT-ka, as opposed to oh-OTT-ka as I’ve always called it.

And I believe that generally, oh-OTT-ka is the correct pronunciation. There was mention in the forum as well of the native Iroquois pronunciation, which stresses the first OH, and concludes OH-ott-Ka.

So the importnat takeaway is that it’s OTT, not AT, in the middle, and then the rest becomes a matter of inflection.

Either way, it’s got some nice trout in it.

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