Thursday, July 10, 2008

for kevin, where the fish go

pepacton reservoir during drought. it looks like "former site of olive" may be taking back a little. this is on the way to d.e.p. fishing










the road to nowhere on pepacton reservoir, a d.e.p. site, where you can walk right down into the fish on a road that used to go to one of the towns that's still under there.



pepacton reservoir, just before a large storm came through and slightly before some jerk asked if we caught anything. when we said no, he snorted, "how could you not catch anything down there?" well, jerkweed, maybe i wasn't trying very hard. or maybe i'm really bad at fishing. feel better about yourself?





pepacton reservoir from shore because we do not have a boat. when we get one, it will not be able to leave pepacton reservoir because the d.e.p. says so.

fishing on esopus creek off 28 near allaben, state land











fishing on esopus creek off 28 near allaben, state land, the other direction

along delaware and ulster rail bed trail, where there are many fishing streams, but also a pleasant walk with scenery enjoyable by nonfishers, even small children.









d.e.p. fishing site on route 10 near south kortright.

trans am acres. just past the above fishing site. i do not believe the d.e.p. is in any way connected with this.










d.e.p. fishing site on east branch delaware near margaretville. that's the remains of an old bridge abutment.

knitting on east branch delaware, a d.e.p. fishing site, not zoned for knitting at all















nests under bridge over east branch delaware, a d.e.p. fishing site. the birds living here have a deal with the d.e.p. and do not require a permit to fish.

2 comments:

CLU said...

I love it. I think I could easily love upstate NY as well as Montana =). Never thought about schlepping my knitting up to the top of the mountain to knit in a "no knitting allowed" zone. Hmm. May have to try it!

maskedbadger said...

i think upstate ny is a shorter, more scrunched up version of the west. instead of ancient ruins like out west, we have stone walls and shaft mines dotting the catskills. and ice caves.

i always have some portable knitting for emergencies. like when i get trapped in a train underground. or when the sweetie wants to fish about an hour longer than i intended to. or if we're waiting 30 minutes in traffic to get over the george washington bridge.