Stocking Schedule

Stocking schedule for the Lackawaxen River semi published- no counts. What it means is that sometime during the weeks posted you can wait at the supermarket until the fish truck shows up. If it does you can schlepp buckets of fish down the banks and splash them into the river. (You even have an armed guard.) Make a mental note come back in a few days and not catch a damn thing. Ha!
I shouldn't complain. At least they put fish in the river. They could manage and develop the river but they don't. Oh well.

Another 100 Year Flood??

Todays rains are causing flooding issues throughout nepa and the Catskills.

Thurs AM:
Region escapes serious flooding

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NEWS/803060314

The Tow Path Google Map of the Lackawaxen River

Better than sliced bread. Use this map to plan a weekend of fishing. Which pools to fish, which pizza joint to eat at or where to get gas(ed).
This is really cool stuff for fisherman. Link to the map, make maps with alternate plans, turn on the feature highlights and print it out.
You can even make your our version at Google Maps.

Winter Fishing

I've received a couple of emails about winter fishing on the Lackawaxen. I don't recommend it. Not because the fishing isn't good. I wouldn't know. But the wading or more to the point getting to the water is so difficult and even dangerous. The water should be a good temperature coming from the bottom of the lake and all. It's just that there's just too much of it. I haven't been around a lot this winter but when I have been the water has been high. Real High. Also a lot of shore ice. To me trout fishing should be a pleasure and not a chore so I'll wait until April, even late in April, to start my fishing in the Lackawaxen.

There have been several times when Zane Gray Pool has a lot of Gulls and a few Eagles. A good omen for this season's fishing.

$1.6 million to fund rail, span work

Heres a story from The Times Tribune in Scanton concerning the Stourbridge Line railroad...

HAWLEY — Nearly three years after flooding wiped out the Hawley Bridge, the Wayne Industrial Development Authority has secured nearly $1.6 million to repair the span...

I'll be damned.

Not not for that. Everybody does that it's a natural thing. But for this. I was looking around at references to the Lackawaxen River on the net and found this picture of me fishing in Macy's Pool advertising a cabin rental. Ha!

Are these guys on acid?

There are fewer people fishing Pennsylvania's waters these days. So what does the Fish and Boat commission do? A study. Read this study. Whatever it cost it was too much.

My advice... 

Make fishing accessible. 

Make fishing fun!