NY Last Day

Last Day In the Finger Lakes

Clint directed me to one of his favorite creeks to get away and fish on my last day in New York.  So I packed up a bag and waded up the creek. 

It turned out to be a very peaceful place with very little traffic.

I even caught a couple of nice little brown trout.

Good bye New York

Thanks for the fish.

New York Catfish

Night 5

I took that catfish from the tank back.  I cleaned it and washed it in the natural spring creek that runs in front of Clint's house then handed it over to the master chef.

Clint made his Super Soy Asian Lovin Catfish Marinade.

He opened up the fish and sliced into it for proper marinating.

Marinated for 30 minute while the grill got hot. 

Ground wasabi, lemon, butter, cilantro 

And olive oil

On the grill for about 45 minute

Then we took pictures while it rested.

It is on my list of top 5 meals of all time for sure. 

Mixed with a little rice and bok choy for a midnight snake 

Gotta love this guy. 

New York Day 5

 Ithaca, NY Day 5 

Stock Tank

Of course I grabbed my cup of joe at Brookton's Market before going to check out Just a Taste, which is where Clint works.  Its a cool little farm to table restaurant that serves everything from chicken wings to shark. 

After that I met up with Mike, Josh and Jamie to go to the Finger Lakes Preserve.  Its a gigantic piece of property with two spring fed tanks on it.  The upper one has catfish and the lower one rainbow trout.

Jamies catfish

Josh

This place was beautiful and awesome.  We ended up catching anywhere from 40-50 fish on the day.  

Mike landing a solid Rainbow Trout out of the Jackson Cuda.

Fat boy

The catfish are all in the upper tank and not interested in chum but they are interested in wooly boogers with a little piece of beef jerky hooked on.  

This guy took me for a ride on my 6-7 rod and is the biggest and hardest fighting fish I've caught to date on a fly rod.  He also tasted soooo good. 

The rainbows were on all day hitting mostly wooly boogers.  We were probably averaging a fish every 10-15 minutes.  Then we threw out the chum and the chum flies and it was on.  Nearly a trout every cast and even had a fish on every line at one point.

Next up: The Catfish Dinner.