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America's Best Fishing Bars

By John Taranto

Oct 18, 2007

Best Bar Named for a Fly
R.F. McDougall's, Wilmington, N.Y.
800-766-9137
Jerry Bottcher's business partners weren't crazy about having the words "Rat Face" in the name of their bar, so Jerry agreed to abbreviate the moniker of the parachute fly pattern popular in Adirondack streams.

McDougall's is a classy, laid-back joint, designed to complement the region's Victorian architecture. Antique rods, reels and creels, solid oak floors, an 18-foot-long cherry bar and a large stone fireplace are among the attractive features in the large room. In fact, the fireplace used to be external, before R.F. McDougall's was built around it in the basement of the Hungry Trout Inn in 1989. Guests in the 1930s and '40s would use the fireplace to cook the trout they'd caught from the Au Sable River, which flows past the property the distance of a double-haul from the main building.

McDougall's has a long list of single-malt Scotches, a martini menu and a number of beer choices, including several from the Saranac brewery in Utica. The dinner menu includes half-pound burgers, rib-eye steaks, venison stew and pan-fried trout panini.

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