Thanks for making the trip down to the Esopus. When I lived in N.Y. years ago, that was my favorite trout stream. I recognized some of the places on the river where you fished.. I used to fish morning to night, have dinner in a family owned restaurant in Phoenicia, and drive back to White Plains. Those were the days.
Tip: While euro nymphing, be sure to tuck the line underneath your index finger. I think you missed those fish because the line won’t go tight when you go to set the hook.
@@DownstreamDownrange I'll second that. You need to keep the line under your right index finger and when the fish hits pick up on the road quickly and set the hook.
Just fished here today, in some of those same spots! You did very well for your first time. This river can humble you quickly, the fish will humble you even quicker.
Lots of walking on this trip to find the ideal pocket water. You missed a ton of hits but got a couple in the net. Those wild rainbows fight hard. Great trip.
My home creek. Sadly when Hurricanes Irene and Sandy hit, they decimated the Esopus. Tons of large debris, and millions of tons of gravel were swept down the creek. Many places are gone. Many are new. One bridge close to the Ashokan reservoir was totally swept away. From Upper Rt 28A all the way down and out into the reservoir, It's gone. It wiped out an old stone train trestle along the way that we used to cross over the creek on. Neither stick out of the water anywhere. As the creek was/and really is still healing, the invasive species "Rock Snot" has appeared. It was probably brought down from up north on felt bottom boots. It had smothered the rebirth of the creatures on the bottom and slowed the healing down to a crawl. It's a d@mn shame. The food supply that was once in abundance and fed many large sized natives is still in shortage. It's only been stocked with browns ever since, no rainbows have been reintroduced at all.
usually the water runs murky from the discharge of a reservoir above into the creek.. the creek has become hardly worth fishing as they stopped stocking it and the few rainbows you will find are dinkers. NY state has deliberately ruined the Catskill creeks and rivers fishing. Even Beaverkill has gone to chit!
Fished there on way back to NH from PA, Sunday 27th, near woodland, water cloudy green, cold, not he nice clear water in your video. Hope to get back later this Summer.
Have never fished the E yet. Looked like a beautiful wild stream. They say the new designation will help it. Hope so! Tough day but still a great video!
they stopped stocking it two years ago and barely stocked it for 4 years prior. NY state has deliberately ruined it as well as most the Catskill creeks and rivers. No way making it native only will improve it if they had to stock it before. Think about it.
Feel for you Dan ☹️ You should have gotten more fish in the net ! But for the first time on the Esopus, think of it as an exploring trip ! Such real good wilds to be had ! Get em next time 👍 Tight lines
@@DownstreamDownrange i was upstream by about 1/2 mile. Theres quite a lot of nice places to tuck in, plus Wolf Creek flows downhill into it with natural Brookies
Love your stuff guy..... But the Gravyard Shift report on Big Browns in the Farmington River has been Incredible...... Why nobody Fishes at night there consistently is just Stunning...... Best Wishes....
no stocking for two years now and the for three year before that they put in squat!! They have declared the water to become 100 natural fishery and are no longer stocking it.
20 fish hooked and 2 landed? Something has got to change. Either way its cool to see a place in the northeast that has more wild rainbows than other trout. A sign of very high water quality.
Ah looks like Chimney hole. Been there, done that To hit the huge spawners , gotta go early April . Probably the only river where I'd eat the fish. Caddis larvae was huge last time I went.
@@DownstreamDownrange Not a bad idea to try to figure out when they release at the portal. It also becomes a Kayaker thing and thus, mental retardation. But, like the Housatonic, if you hit "the wave". you can annihilate rainbows that average 45 lbs.
Dude I’m a growing fan of your videos I would love to get out and fly fish with you! We fish all the same waters in New York I’m going to check this comment soon hopefully you get back to me!!
@@byungsubchung736 so you are finding yourself out on river that you know hold trout ….but you are not sure exactly where they are sitting when you look out at the water ????? I could definitely help you
@@DownstreamDownrange yep... I know by researching on google, RU-vid... since I got nobody. Fishing around Phoenecia... I try again around there next month...
Nice video. Try a prince nymph and iso nymph. Small Crayfish imitations work well. The water where you fished was low. Below the portal there is more water and the fishing is better.
Yooo. A lot of people take fish at the Esopus. I got a few nice access points next time you go there let me know, I will email you Google maps coordinates.
Great looking stream! FWIW if you control your line with your rod hand you will likely hook and land more of those fish that strike. That was one of the first things I was taught. Just so happens I watched another video today that makes this point too: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UfrVz2f3pvQ.html
