Memorial Day Getaway
Friday I took a little road trip up to Rochester to do some fishing. I went to Irondequoit Creek which is a tributary of Lake Ontario. It’s one of the best wild brown trout, steelhead trout, salmon waterways in New York. There are a series of five city parks along the creek to provide public access. Saw this exotic house as I accidentally trespassed on private property. (Learn to read a map upside down). Met the owner and he was super friendly and not pissed I was wandering through his yard. Kinda hard to tell, but one park had a long bridge through a valley for a very scenic walk. I walked 8 miles during the day. Just below the small waterfall pictured above, I hooked and lost one large trout. That was just about my only action of the day. But it was one hell of an experience. There was a school of trophy sized trout, smallest was 18 inches and largest was a minimum of 25 inches. These were creek monsters. On my second cast I got one to bite, but it swam into th...
