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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 - 10:00 am
Above: DEP Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush at the Ashokan Reservoir this summer. Photo from the DEP, via Flickr.
The relationship between the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate communities who live in its watershed is... Read more
By Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Jun. 20, 2011 - 10:54 am
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 9:27 am
Hordes of volunteers who love the Sullivan County town of Roscoe mobilized this week, armed themselves with computers and email addresses, and went to work voting four times a day in a World Fishing Network contest for "Ultimate Fishing Town USA." All... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2011 - 10:47 am
Four cops on a stakeout. Six suspects making a drop at a hidden stash. Eleven female victims.
Egg-laden female walleye victims, that is. The sordid tale of a big bust of poachers after spawning walleye unrolls like an episode of The Wire in Dick Nelson's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 8:51 am
A homemade fly dryer, invented by Paul Cowell, of Paul's Angling Journal. Photo used with permission.
Happy fishing season opener day! Despite that sunny-sounding news, today doesn't feel very springy, and the New York Department of Environmental... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 9:37 am
Photo submitted to the Ultimate Fishing Town contest by Kurt Huhner.
In a contest that is eerily similar to Budget Travel Magazine's "coolest town in America" contest, only fishier, the World Fishing Network is asking small towns across the country to try... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 9, 2011 - 3:28 pm
Over in Shandaken, Mike O'Neil, Troutmeister -- yes, that does appear to be an official title -- recently issued a plea to the community for money to fund the annual stocking of trout in the Woodland Valley Stream. Troutmeistering is a sacred family trust... Read more
By laurie on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 12:38 am
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010 - 8:19 am
This heat-wave-plagued summer has been hard on Catskills trout. Paul's Angling Journal brings us a brief update from the DEC: The Esopus is still hot.
At the start of each summer, there is typically a limited supply of cold water in the Schoharie... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:08 am
Daily News correspondent Paul Schultz spends a day fishing the East and West branches of the Delaware and talking up the virtues of summer fishing in the Catskills:
The good news, though, is that three streams in Sullivan and Delaware Counties — the... Read more
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