Salmon River NY & PHW Special Presentation

Mark Melnyk joins guides and fly shop owners on the Salmon River in upstate New York to take veterans fly fishing with Project Healing Waters. Mark also learns about the history of the stocking program on the salmon river. Learn more about Project Healing Waters: projecthealingwaters.org
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[@bigron8346]

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!

[@MrOliverwoods]

Fantastic in every way.

[@brooktroutangler5917]

Mark and Bill with a couple Oscar nods there.........

[@cromedrifter8611]

loved it

[@YSOSERIOUS596]

This is a fantastic video and even better program. Thank you to all the Vets for your services. God Bless you all

[@travisfishwater7734]

Catching a fish forces you for atleast a moment, into a completely zen state. Zen is nothing more than being completely focused on the task at hand. In that there is no conscious thought of self, there is only action. The moment you set the hook and then feel the fish there really isn't room for anything else, there's no question about purpose, or worry about life, all there is, is zen.

[@brooktroutangler5917]

great to see Fran , Lindsay, Dave, Charlie, and Bobby on here.

[@petergambino2129]

The Salmon River, in NYS, is the best kept secret in fly fishing.

[@BoyajianDon]

Wonderful episode!

[@charlieboutin3341]

Thank you great people for your service to this country. Merry Christmas and and best wishes. God bless you all. Thanks New Fly Fisher for providing them an opportunity to fish. Hats off to you all. 👍👍🙏❤️🇺🇸

[@newflyfisher]

Happy holidays!

[@michaelwoehrl1746]

Ira and Rob should have been the guides. PHW is great.

[@poldebol]

In the netherlands its theo backelaar that have a phw

[@wildbryan2217]

This is absolutely awesome if you need help I live up here …just let me know if you need a volunteer

[@716army]

The thumbnail was not the salmon river, but the Big River!

[@jonathonkersting9043]

When was this filmed? Haha. Is this marks first day with orvis? 😂

[@newflyfisher]

Haha. You’re right! First day on the job. (Not really but close) appreciate the laugh! Mark.

[@jonathonkersting9043]

@@newflyfisher you all look like you really enjoy your time out there! It’s awesome!!

[@DaLeperKing]

Bill spicer and mark were totally faking that😂

[@peterparsons7141]

This kind of fish stalking is destroying what’s left of our native fish. It’s a fact, but stalking is “ such an important part of tourism and recreational industry”. Ask a biologist. These lakes had lake trout, Atlantic salmon, brook trout. These species were nearly extinct because all the streams were destroyed, and the lake was polluted. Now what’s left is being overwhelmed with non native species..but there’s lots of people making lots of money and people feel good because there’s some stocked fish in the lake.. you want to do something good.. educate yourself about habit, and species restoration. It’s to difficult for average people, because you have to think.

[@crestonlaager3216]

I too struggle with what you're pointing out, but the bottom line is that people are going to fish, the economy keeps turning and so many people benefit. Indeed it's an "artificial" fishery, and while there is wild reproduction (a 2020 census of the SR concluded that there's a lot more of it than previously ever imagined) of the Pacific Salmon (which, includes steelhead). Realizing, of course, Oncorhynchus Mykiss is a non-native species, but we must realize, the streams where I'm from - (for example) in EC NY will never have those wild 2 or 3-lb. brookies ever again; not in my great-grandfather's time even, that ship has long since sailed. Even the LLS project in NY where they removed the dam on the Boquet to establish "wild" reproduction still must be supplemented by hatchery fish and the very fact that the brood stock for the introduction of these salmon comes from somewhere in Maine is, as they say, a sign of the times. Personally, I enjoy the SR fishery, as well as all the other "artificial" fisheries established in the NE; the Beaverkill, the Ausable, the Deerfield, the Farmington, I can go on and on. All we can do now are insure that what we do have is preserved because, at the end of the day, our waters and the fish in them save people, like the former soldiers here, and give men and women renewed purpose in life.