Fly Fishing the Beaverkill River

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Evan Lavery. Fly Fishing the Beaverkill River

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29 . Beaverkill River

Location: Southeastern New York, about a 2-hour ride from New York City; a 2-hour ride from Newark, New Jersey; a 3-hour ride from Hartford, Connecticut; and a 4-hour ride from Boston, Massachusetts. Full-service airports are available in all four cities.

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The Beaverkill River is sometimes referred to as the Beaver Kill. “Kill” means river in Dutch. It is a tributary of the East Branch of the Delaware River. The river is approximately 44 miles long, draining an area of roughly 300 square miles. By the mid-19th century, the native brook trout population had been decimated. This led to the establishment of hatcheries to try to bring back the fishing. Beginning in the 1880s,

nonnative brown trout replaced the

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