Why Is Gasoline $3.35 in Hancock, $3.19 in Roscoe And $2.79 In Syracuse?

 

It was an eventful day, Mark departed for Greensboro at 7:30 this morning. I devoted the day to catching up on yard work. Since the rains came, I have mowed three times and done nothing else. Pruned around the trees and bushes, dug up a deceased apricot tree, turned over the garden and planted the tomato plants, pulled Creeping Charlie out of the Flowering Quince, filled the bird feeders, sprayed weed killer on the new grass I planted on the railroad bank, made a dump run, and fell asleep in the recliner.

Awoke about 3:30 and took a drive, stopped to see Dave at the Troutfitter in Deposit, who said people did well up there over the weekend. Saw a few rises, relatively few fishermen, and almost no boats. Headed east and found the wade fishermen. Every parking spot along the BE and the BK had multiple cars. Drove all the way to Roscoe without finding an empty pool to fish.

The fishing - Fished a run on the lower part of the BE that had a heavy Invaria hatch and rising fish everywhere, just a week ago. Tonight there were green drake husks in the water and some blue sedge egg layers in the air. There were no March Browns, Gray foxes or sulfurs. Thought there would be a good spinner fall, (no wind and warm), there wasn't. What there was, however, were hungry fish willing to at least take a look at anything that floated by them. Had lots of refusals, hooked five or six fish that came undone, several of which might well have been hooked briefly in the body when lingering too long after refusing the fly. I ended up landing eight fish including a 20.5 inch brown that gave me a seemingly endless fight. Did a face-plant walking back to the car in waist high grass that was bare ground the last time I fished there.

Where it's at -The invaria, at least on the freestones have seemingly peaked. Yesterday the guides were fishing mostly between Barking Dog on the WB and Buckingham on the BR. With the flow on the UEB coming down most responsible drifters will leave it to the waders. Saw a lot of Green Drake nymph husks on the BR below Buckingham yesterday and a few husks on the BE down near Hancock today, (today's husks looked like they floated a long way). Green Drake spinners usually return two days after they hatch, (I've yet to see a coffin fly).     

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