fly fishing
By Leigh Melander on Saturday, Mar. 4, 2017 - 1:09 pm
Trout Tales 2017: A Catskills Fishing CelebrationSaturday, March 25 1 PMSpillian: A Place to Revel 1 PM - 5 PM Demos and Expo with Licensed Guides, World-Class Anglers, Biologists, Gear Specialists, and More!5 PM - 6 PM Happy Hour Featuring the Trout... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 8, 2016 - 6:51 am
Above: Souvenir pennies made by the new machine in Phoenicia. Photo by Brett Barry.
Kitsch-lovers rejoice! You can squish one of four Catskills-specific designs onto a souvenir penny in the Ulster County hamlet of Phoenicia using a hand-cranked machine... Read more
By Stephanie Blackman on Thursday, May. 5, 2016 - 1:39 pm
By Robert Burke Warren on Thursday, May. 5, 2016 - 11:15 am
Above: A "Lime Trude" fly fishing lure tied by Ed Ostapczuk, photographed by Mark Loete and included in "The Art of Artifice," an exhibition of Catskills fly tying that opens this Saturday in Woodstock.
What lured Mark Twain, Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover and... Read more
By Tobe Carey on Sunday, Apr. 5, 2015 - 7:25 pm
Just in time for the opening of the 2015 fishing season, Willow Mixed Media, has begun production on a new documentary about angling in the Ashokan watershed. The program will cover the rich history of world-class fishing on the Esopus Creek and its... Read more
By Leigh Melander on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015 - 10:59 am
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 27, 2014 - 9:51 am
The Catskills region is renowned as the cradle of American dry fly-fishing. It’s the place where, in the 1800s, local anglers first began to alter English flies into shapes and patterns that mimic our own native insects.
Today, the fly-tier’s art thrives... Read more
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