Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

Spent a fruitless couple of hours searching for a lost fly box, asking  anglers fishing the pool where I last used it and checking fly shops  to see if it might have been turned in - no luck. By the time I finished, the best Beaverkill pools were all filled with  multiple fishermen. Drove up and down the stream using the "three rise  rule" in deciding where to fish. Found a pool with six or eight fish n going, although when I got down to the stream the only things I was  able to see on the water were one black midge and one large flying  ant.  First cast hooked a nice rainbow that tore around the pool  apparently warning all the other fish because I never got to cast at  another fish in the pool.  Had the same experience in the other two  pools I tried.  The water is so low and clear that one hooked fish  spooks the other fish and they stopped feeding. Tuesday and Wednesday I fished pools that normally (today for example)  have numerous anglers fishing them all day long. 

It wasn't pseudo weather but with the temperature pushing up towards  80 degrees, it was a beautiful day to be on the water. Fished the big river, the big EB and the Beaverkill.  Didn't see  twenty mayflies all afternoon.  There were caddis (both brown and  black) in the air. Those little black midges the trout were on  yesterday? Never made an appearance.  At least I now have a half dozen  in my fly box should they ever return. The fishing?  Had rising trout (good ones) from three thirty until six  thirty.  What were they eating?  Not my fly.  There was a good hatch  of the tiny midges that are the bane of Delaware River fishermen. They are far too small to imitate and the trout lock in on them and  eat nothing else. That said, I fished three hours with every cast aimed at a rising  fish.  Hooked six and landed four with a nice eighteen inch rainbow  being the "fish of the day". Fall fishing is different. The window of opportunity gets shorter and  shorter. If you ca

This is my third trip down to the fishing camp since my September 30th  report. The other two were nothing to write home about - so I didn't.. The high, muddy and warm (yes, warm) water being released from  Cannonsville has adversly affected the fishing.  So has the low, clear  and until the last few days, warm water in the East Branch. Has all  that changed?  No!. The WB is still high, dirty and warm. The EB half  of the system is still low and clear but has cooled down. The fall pseudos like cold water.  The trout like to eat them in the  tailouts of slow moving pools. There is too much warm water in the WB  for pseudo fishing.  Throw streamers and count the swirls trout make  as they refuse your fly. The EB and Beaverkill are getting close. There are fish in the big EB  again even if there are no pseudos.  Saw a good number of fish eating  black midges in an EB pool. Hooked three and then it stopped. Drove up  to the Beaverkill where pseudo hatches are sometimes epic. They  were