Syracuse.com - CNY fishing buddies target the big browns

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The two like to target big brown trout and aren’t afraid to travel to catch them. DeCapio said they look for “out of the way... forgotten” bodies of water.

Submitted photoEric with his lunker.

Persistence pays off.

Eric Stanczyk of Baldwinsville, found that out during a April 9 trout fishing expedition with his fishing buddy, Jake DeCapio, of Marcellus, when he landed a huge brown trout.

Stanczyk works at the Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery and DeCapio owns the nearby Wayfarer Co., a fishing supply store on Nine Mile Creek.

The two like to target big brown trout and aren’t afraid to travel to catch them. DeCapio said they look for “out of the way... forgotten” bodies of water.

On a recent day trip, they drove a total of 250 miles and fished four waterways and walked “12 hours straight,” DeCapio said.

They caught a few small ones and one big one— Stancyzk’s 23-incher, a male that he caught and released on the upper Genesee River. He used a large Panther Martin lure.

That day they also fished the Cohocton River, Naples Creek and an unnamed tributary of the Genesee River, Stanczyk said.

“I caught that fish at about 2 p.m. in the afternoon,” he said. “I didn’t think it was big as it was, until it came up and swirled. And there was a fish bigger than him following close behind.”

Stanczyk said he and DeCapio left to go fishing that day at 6:30 a.m. and got back home at about 11 p.m.

View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog