The NYCDEP Fall 2010 Watershed Recreation Newsletter

The NYCDEP Fall 2010 Watershed Recreation Newsletter can now be viewed on our website at:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/recreation/2010_fall_newsletter.pdf

Please visit our website at http://nyc.gov/html/dep/html/recreation/index.shtml for additional information on DEP recreation opportunities and maps. Please be sure to keep your e-mail address current with us so that you continue to receive these e-mails as well as notices of when your DEP Access permit is about to expire.

DEP is responsible for balancing public recreation use with water quality protection for over 9 million New Yorkers. DEP has made major strides in recent years in opening lands and providing additional recreational opportunities. Updates on these can be found on our website. Additionally, recreational users such as yourself are the “eyes and ears” for DEP, as such we ask any suspicious activity observed on DEP lands or waters be reported immediately to the DEP Police at 1-888-H20SHED.

If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail us at recreation@dep.nyc.gov or call 1-800-575-LAND.

What I Am Looking Forward To

I guess what I am looking forward to is Good Health in the future so that I might be able to go Flyfishing next spring and wade to my hearts content. I would also like to be able to play some Golf with my wife and walk, not ride on the Golf Course.

I am also looking forward to the day when we can all get along in peace and harmony.

2011 fly tying and fly fishing symposium in Utica, NY

Saturday March 19th we will be having our 3rd annual Fly Tying Symposium.

It will be held at the Hotel Utica and will begin at 9:00am.

There will be no price for admission.

Come enjoy the fun with bucket raffles and seminars all day.  We hope to have at least 25 exhibition tyers at the event and we also will have side by side fly tying all day long for kids of all ages.

If you are interested in being a guest tier, please contact Harold... email here. 

If you are interested in having a booth or doing a seminar, please email JP Ross. 

We are looking for sponsors so please contact us if you are willing to send us a monitary donation for this event.  More details to come.

NOAA Weather Map

NOAA has put up a site where you can weather info about almost every airport in the USA, go take a look.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zoa/mwmap3.php?map=usa

Looking for a good fishing spot. The NYS DEC has been working very hard and has come up with a site for you to look at. http://www.dec.ny.gov/pubs/42978.html
Go take a look, I think you will enjoy and find it very helpful.

Water Level for Oatka Creek today 9/9/2010

Gage height, feet
	Most recent instantaneous value: 2.41 09-09-2010 07:00 EST