South Branch Rockafellows dam:

[AndyS]

Looks like a big article in 2017 Freshwater Fishing Digest about dam removal.
Tear them all down, and get rid of that one in Clinton with that old mill on it.

[pacrags]

Grew up 2 miles from there, was a great place to swim and fish until a few people drowned there @1979- one being a girl from my school and an electiral worker who had a heart attack trying to save her- which my next door neighbor witnessed ... a short while later i believe a kayaker drowned when he got caught in a tree.

Haven't fished there in tears even though my mom still lives around the corner.

[thmyorke1]

What's with the signage on that lil dam? Doesn't seem that important looking with how run down it looks.

Any reason dams like these are protected?

[thmyorke1]

Originally Posted by pacrags

Grew up 2 miles from there, was a great place to swim and fish until a few people drowned there @1979- one being a girl from my school and an electiral worker who had a heart attack trying to save her- which my next door neighbor witnessed ... a short while later i believe a kayaker drowned when he got caught in a tree.

Haven't fished there in tears even though my mom still lives around the corner.

That typo made it real deep...
I really hate hearing freak accidents like that, such a shame for ppl to go like that.

[AndyS]

The owner is a real j/o, with a capital J/O !! They stopped stocking trout there, no access = no trout.

[pacrags]

Originally Posted by thmyorke1

That typo made it real deep...
I really hate hearing freak accidents like that, such a shame for ppl to go like that.

I guess it was a freudian slip ...i was around 13 at time and thought i was invincible despite being caught in the undertow of that dam on at least 2 occasions myself.

It was either later that summer or the next, where at the next dam up river, at what we called elbow dam, that i lost my grip on the back swing of a rope swing over the river that took some chips out of my skull as i slammed into the rock ledge that we swung from. That dam had some good fishing back the too, but now as I think about it that was a pretty crappy stretch of time otherwise.