John Janson assembled his four-piece, 13-foot-long center pin fishing rod, slid a wax worm onto a weighted jig beneath a cigar-sized bobber, and on his second cast set the hook when the bobber ...

The Cattaraugus was so thick with muddy runoff it could have been crossed on foot. But Chautauqua Creek near Barcelona was clear enough to fish Saturday, and it was there I had my first hands-on ...