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Article: FALL FUN IN FINGER LAKES; DOZENS OF TRIBUTARIES HOLD TROUT OR SALMON.(Sports)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2002
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Byline: J. Michael Kelly Staff writer
After half an hour of swinging streamer flies and nymphs through a deep ledge pool in Fall Creek, Mike Gee of Elmira still was waiting for his first strike. Yet, he wasn't discouraged.
"I haven't got a thing, so far," Gee said. "But my buddy told me he caught six browns here last week, between two and three pounds each."
In other words, you should have been here yesterday.
That old, familiar angler's lament is nowhere more applicable than in the tributaries of the Finger Lakes, where lunkers literally may be present one day and absent the next.
Each spring, large runs of rainbow trout ...