Neversink River

The Neversink River is hallowed ground in American fly fishing — the home water of Theodore Gordon, the father of American dry fly fishing, who fished and tied flies on the Neversink from the 1880s until his death in 1915. Gordon adapted British dry fly techniques to the Neversink’s wild brook and brown trout, effectively inventing American fly fishing as we know it. The upper Neversink, now mostly within the NYC watershed and largely closed to the public, retains the wild trout populations Gordon knew. The lower river below Neversink Reservoir offers public access and stocked trout fishing.