Despite the return of winter this past week, with snow, sleet, rain, gusty winds and even an earthquake (!) trout fishers were out in good numbers and all were enthusiastic to open the season.
By Wednesday afternoon area rivers and streams were high and discolored. The Beaverkill had risen to slightly above the average flow but by Monday morning had receded somewhat to 985 cubic feet per second, below the Median average flow on this date of 1190 cubic feet per second over 110 years of record-keeping. It looks like a slightly warmer but rainy week ahead for the most part, typical of the traditional “April showers” we are used to.