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FalseCast

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Wife’s family is having a weekend get together near Boston mid June. Since I have never been to that area of the country, we thought we’d spend a week there to explore, vacation and allow me to fly-fish. Wife is super cool about where we go, doesn’t mind driving several hours but I really don’t know what area I should be looking at. I.e Catskills, Adirondacks, northern New Hampshire…We have 2 grade school kids so seeing some history would be neat but not mandatory. Planning to fly into Albany, rent a car and then VRBO somewhere next to public land and wadable trout streams. I'm in charge of finding the VRBO.
Don’t want to hire a guide or float bigger waters. Just want to take a 3 wt (maybe a 5 wt) and fish some of the notable hatches.

Can y’all give some direction on where I should be zeroing in on- or areas we should stay away from.
 

Guide To Brook Trout Fishing In Adirondack Ponds

Brook trout were once widely distributed in New York State but are now most numerous in small streams and the headwaters of larger streams in mountainous areas.
www.dec.ny.gov www.dec.ny.gov

The daks are beautiful.
No real history.
Lake placid is expensive
The peaks are cool for hiking.
The trout fishing is ok


I think vermont has better trout fishing.
 
Farmington River in CT is nice good fishing between Farmington, CT and Riverton (Barkhamsted, CT) , the Housatonic River is also a popular trout fishery and is beautiful up around Cornwall CT area.

All those areas are 2-2.5 hours from Boston proper.
 
Thanks for the replies- I’ll check out VT and CT Now that I’m searching again.

I ended up focusing my search around “Sullivan county” New York. Seemed to be THE place for all things fly fishing. Reserved a nice house right on the Neversink, had plane tickets and rental car secured… then my wife’s family changed the dates. Now the place isn’t available during the time we will be there, and the other properties avail don’t look appeasing, so I’m really bummed about it.

also found out this week that my other fishing family vacation for the summer isn’t going to work out As planned. Had a cabin booked since last year for late July in Lake City, Co that was "double booked” by the host and actually not available. Good news is that the host felt bad and is giving us a free week on an alternative date, bad news is that it is in mid-June . From experience, the San Juan’s that early in the year means fishing will be tough with run-off, the (alpine loop)/ passes aren’t going to be open, the high altitude lakes will still be froze, and hiking any of the 14ers will be through snow And brutal on the kiddos (wont make that mistake again lol). Hopefully we’re not just sitting in the cabin.
I know, first world problems..
 
FalseCast said:
Thanks for the replies- I’ll check out VT and CT Now that I’m searching again.

I ended up focusing my search around “Sullivan county” New York. Seemed to be THE place for all things fly fishing. Reserved a nice house right on the Neversink, had plane tickets and rental car secured… then my wife’s family changed the dates. Now the place isn’t available during the time we will be there, and the other properties avail don’t look appeasing, so I’m really bummed about it.

also found out this week that my other fishing family vacation for the summer isn’t going to work out As planned. Had a cabin booked since last year for late July in Lake City, Co that was "double booked” by the host and actually not available. Good news is that the host felt bad and is giving us a free week on an alternative date, bad news is that it is in mid-June . From experience, the San Juan’s that early in the year means fishing will be tough with run-off, the (alpine loop)/ passes aren’t going to be open, the high altitude lakes will still be froze, and hiking any of the 14ers will be through snow And brutal on the kiddos (wont make that mistake again lol). Hopefully we’re not just sitting in the cabin.
I know, first world problems..
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Yes Sullivan county is great, down by the Delaware is great fishing
 
Coos County is my favorite place in the world. Errol, Pittsburg, Milan, and Colebrook is awesome. I try to get myself there as much as I can. The Androscoggin River has a bunch of places where its only fly fishing.

You lost me on VRBO, but lots of camping up there. Outside of hiking and fishing, there really isn't much else.
 
Draw a V shaped line on a map from Burlington to Hartford and then to Portland. Go somewhere inside that, preferably north of MA.

Yes, you can find some places east and south of that area that don't suck but they'll be few and far between.

If you just want to fuck around with the family western MA isn't all that bad, there's a decent amount of hiking and fishing in the northwest quarter of MA and you can just hit up the various art and manufacturing history museums if the weather turns to shit but remember that half every dollar you spend in that shihole is going to someone who actievly wants to destroy your way of life.

Edit: On second thought, rent a camper and park it at Wood's house. :laughing:
 
arse_sidewards said:
Edit: On second thought, rent a camper and park it at Wood's house. :laughing:
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Shit, I don't have room for my own things. :laughing:

But hey, don't knock MA. We used to fish for giant ass Stripers at Lawrence dam. :laughing:
 
woods said:
Shit, I don't have room for my own things. :laughing:

But hey, don't knock MA. We used to fish for giant ass Stripers at Lawrence dam. :laughing:
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You telling me your mud bog of a driveway wouldn't make for a badass hill climb in a rented class C? :flipoff2:
 
arse_sidewards said:
You telling me your mud bog of a driveway wouldn't make for a badass hill climb in a rented class C? :flipoff2:
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its surprisingly dry right now. I got the Harley out no big deal.

The biggest issue with my driveway is that anything larger than a regular cab short bed you can't turn around. You're backing in or out for a third of a mile.
 
Sullivan county is where I grew up. The beaver kill is a blue ribbon trout stream on the boarder of sullivan and ulster.

The first lady of fly fishing joan wulff has a school there.

If that's where you end up going let me know, i can definitely put you on some fish.
 
There is the Catskill fly fishing center and museum right off of 17 in elm hollow.
Lots of cool little towns off 17.
 
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