Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

Today I gave it a good try. Left camp at noon and fished four pools on the Beaverkill. Two did not seem to have repopulated and there was no sign of fish. In the third pool I had two fish come to the fly. Both were rainbows and both ate and were landed. They were long and very lean. The fourth stop was a riff and I found numerous yearling rainbows and a few browns all of which were about 9 inches long. Saw a few olives hatching in the riff but saw no bugs or rising fish in the slower pools. Drove from the Beaverkill to the WB where I tried two places both downstream from Balls Eddy. Saw nothing (bugs or fish) at the first stop. The second pool had a few olives hatching. Cast at three or four subsurface swirls without getting even a look. Did get a nice brown to eat a spinner blind casting. The clouds came about two and thickened as the day wore on. The wind was gusty but since there were no risers it was not a big factor. Before calling it a day I made one last stop on the...

I've done well lately fishing mornings and evenings and sitting out the middle of the day when the sun is at its brightest. It was 39 this morning (no bugs are stirring at that temp) so I waited 'til after lunch to head out. Heard rumors of pseudos hatching in the afternoon on the Beaverkill (they didn't where I was) so I drove over and pulled into one of the many "Angler Parking Lots" and was putting on my waders when a car pulled up next to me. It turned out to be someone I know from the Troutfitter. We had both heard the pseudo rumors and so we gave it a try. There were no bugs and nary a rise on the river, BUT we both found fish in a riffle below the pool where we started. They were rainbows, lots of them. Yearlings mostly, about 9 inches long. Not exactly what we were after but lots of little bows means lots of big bows in the next couple of years. With nothing else going on at the Beaverkill, we headed to the Delaware where there were enough cars in the ...