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Chuck Grimmett
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Likes The Best Barbecue in the Hudson Valley by Molly Sterrs.
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Likes The main way I ve seen people turn ideologically crazy by Andy Masley.
Midday Pocket Picking
I had a couple hours of unexpected free time early this afternoon and made it over to my favorite local wild trout stream. Even in the hottest part of the summer this small, shaded tailwater runs cold. While the other tailwaters here have warm water spilling over the dam after thunderstorms, this one never seems [ ]
Ghost Pipes being pollinated
Ghost Pipes popped up after the recent rains. This is my first time seeing one being pollinated! Since they are white and pop up after rain, I assumed they were a fungus, but apparently they are a plant! It is striking in appearance because it is completely white in appearance, although individuals can have pink [ ]
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Likes A Trampoline | DogDogFish by Matt.
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Likes Substack writers, you need a website! – Elizabeth Tai.
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Likes https://archive.is/JFTku.
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Likes Fly Fishing Podcasts Bluelining for Brook Trout in the Northeast, with Nick Yardley | How To Fly Fish With Orvis®.
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Likes Freshwater drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of invasive mussels in Lake Erie Michigan Sea Grant.
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Likes Verba Prima.
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Likes Current Rothko.
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Likes City of Peekskill Water Department Overview.
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Likes From the Wiccopee to Your Water Glass: Journey of Peekskill’s Drinking Water by By Wiccopee Creek .
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Likes Goodbye Quartz, Hello WordPress. – Flaky.
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Likes High Catskills – Bright Waters Catskill. It was a pleasure to fish one of the storied Catskill mountain streams with Mark.
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Likes The Cypherpunk Library.
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Likes tenkara-fisher: Line Rigging and Rod Repair Kit.
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Likes Going With the Flow: Dany Davis, Catskill Streams, and the Long ….
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I m at a store and I ve been waiting 45 minutes for a stock person to get something out of the back. This is why people prefer to shop online.
Brookies in Putnam County
Today I fished the small headwaters of a stream I drive by daily that eventually empties into the Hudson River. When I say small, I mean small. The average depth of the section I fished on state land is probably 6in, with an average width of 5ft. I saw lots of eastern blacknose dace in [ ]
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Likes Why Native Fish Matter – Bob Mallard Native Fish Coalition: Level Line Podcast Episode 34 by Michael Agneta.
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Some time at the vise.
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Likes April 2026 by Jeremy Felt.
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A nice Jack in the Pulpit I noticed this afternoon.
Harvesting and Tying with Zenmai
Jay Guarneri wrote a great article in the 2026 edition of Tenkara Angler about collecting zenmai from ferns and tying kebari with it. He inspired me to go out and collect some of my own zenmai this spring. Read Jay s article here, (page 80!) then come back. What is zenmai? My Best Streams calls it [ ]
Sampling Bin BWO Hatch
Today during our Trout in the Classroom macroinvertebrate sampling we had something very cool happen: Dozens of tiny BWOs (blue-winged olives) emerged right in our sample bins! Afterward we could see the shucks in the bin. It was great to be able to show the students this happening in realtime. Also, here is a nice [ ]
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Took some stream water samples today for eDNA testing. Saw some bloodroot and Jack in the Pulpit.
Maizy’s Deceiver
Marie and Jay invited us over for dinner. Charlie loves playing with their cat, Maisie, so I took a little break from tying stripe bass flies to tie a hookless cat toy for Charlie to take over. Just different feathers, no flash, because I don t want the cat to accidentally eat plastic if it gets [ ]
Brook Trout Conservation on Earth Day
Charlie s school had an Earth Day event today and I set up a table on conserving brook trout, New York s state fish, and the only trout native to the eastern US. I put together some stuff for all age groups: The stickers were a big hit. I ordered them from AssetArtist on Etsy. The younger [ ]
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Likes Earth Day Book Review 2026 by Matthew L. Miller and Justine E. Hausheer.
Spring Ramp Pasta
Yesterday I foraged some nice ramps out in the woods. I decided I d make a spring pasta with them: I drove over to Tuscana Pasta, a local pasta maker here in Peekskill, and picked up some fresh cavatelli. I didn t follow a recipe and I won t try to write one here. I added: In each [ ]
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Likes https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/. This is cool!
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Video tip: If you need portrait orientation/9:16 phone video, choose New > App Preview in iMovie. I m glad that works, but it is wild that we need to use workarounds in Apple s pre-installed video editing app to edit videos from iPhones in their standard orientation.
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What should I make with these ramps?
Wild Westchester Brook Trout
Today I caught a beautiful wild brook trout today in Westchester County, just five miles from my house. I d heard whispers that this small stream contained brook trout, and I was delighted to catch one on my first outing there. I ve caught brook trout in Cross River, but since so much stocking goes in there, [ ]
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I used to want digital, internet-connected everything. Now I want: A pomodoro timer that actually looks like a tomato and has zero chips or digital displays. A wind up mechanical watch. A dryer without internet connection. No voice assistants in the house.
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I put in a reverse osmosis water filter system under the sink today. Took about 90 minutes, which included collecting my tools, drilling a hole in my sink, and following the instructions. I picked the iSpring RCC7AK. It is working nicely so far and we can taste the difference in a side-by-side comparison.
Frijoles Charros y Frijoles Puercos
For this week s bean adventure, I made Charro Beans, or Frijoles Charros. I looked at multiple recipes and cobbled together my own, which I ll attempt to put down in words here: Notes: Since I made a full pound of beans, I had plenty of leftovers. What do you do with leftover charro beans? According to [ ]
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Likes Episode 148: Everyday Sake With Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori Imbibe Magazine.
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Likes A Brief History of Fish Sauce by Jodi Ettenberg.
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Likes Windell Oskay, Co-Founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – Cool Tools.
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Likes Fly fishing and more: Q&A with Mike Valla.
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One low-key long-term project I have is trying different variations of the Kingston Negroni to find the best combination of rum + bitter amaro + sweet vermouth. Tonight s version of OFTD + Aperol + Carpano Antico is the best so far, easily topping the 8 previous iterations.
Cecil E. Heacox’s The Catskill Flytyers article
Following my post containing the scans of Cecil Heacox s 1969 Charmed Circle of the Catskills articles, Ed Ostapczuk emailed that Heacox did a follow up in the May 1972 edition of Outdoor Life on Catskill Flytyers. Naturally, I had to track that one down, too. It turned out to not be online either, so I [ ]