Today, my buddies Brian and Ted and I headed back to NY for the second day of Free Fishing Weekend.
The day was cloudy with occasional sprinkles, and the temps ranged from 65 to 75 degrees.
We started on the Kinderhook, first in Stephentown and then in West Lebanon (where the Wyomack flows in).
Unfortunately, my co-worker who had warned me that the Kinderhook was likely to be painfully low proved to be right, and we did were unable to detect either hide or hair (or should that be "scale or fin"?) of any fish, so we decided to head north to the Town of Hoosick to reprise our attempt to fish the Hoosic next to the St. Gobain plant.
Alas, even though the water was up a little bit from yesterday, and the spot was the most promising one we had seen over the course of the past two days (plus I briefly had an 11" rainbow on my line there yesterday), we were totally and utterly skunked, without so much as a strike the entire time that we were there.
As a result, we headed home and Brian (who had slept poorly last night) called it a day, while I spent a couple hours showing Ted (who is from "mid County" and hasn't fished much up my way before) my "milk run" along the South Branch of the Hoosic in Adams, from Mullen Mayflower to a little below Elm Rock.
Fortunately, Ted and I did considerably better on my home waters than during our "away" game - - and together we landed a couple brookies, a brown and a decent rainbow, and lost a couple other fish, over a relatively short period of time - - especially considering that we were hurrying a bit so that I could show Ted the entire stretch for his future reference.