The table is set!
Grackles were lined up along a gravel bar in the Beaverkill today eating Dragonfly nymphs as they crawled up on rocks to hatch. The Dragonflies hatch just before the stone fly and drake hatches and feed on the duns. You can see them darting around over the water catching and eating the mayflies. Wings and other uneaten body parts often cover the water.
Ragged Robin, long the precursor of the Green Drake hatch, is in full bloom in roadside ditches from East Branch to Hancock.
The grass along the banks of the river, ( where left ungrazed by the geese) is now knee high. This is the height it reaches when the stone fly hatch occurs.
Today's fishing? Same old, same old. The march browns hatched in modest numbers all afternoon long. In places where there has been fishing pressure the duns float along untouched. Subsurface boils marked fish locations as they ate only the nymphs. In the few places where the fish have been left alone, the duns are being slammed in splashy surface rises. There are several sizes of caddis around and I saw a few grey foxes and tiny dark winged olives on the WB. For the first time this year I saw a handful of sulfurs on the BR. I was on the BR late and there was no hatch or spinner fall during the last couple of hours of fishing.
My fishing day was boat free and only two angler were ever in view, one headed back to his car and the other trying to cross the BK where it was well over his waders. My warning yell was met by a cold stare.
Ragged Robin, long the precursor of the Green Drake hatch, is in full bloom in roadside ditches from East Branch to Hancock.
The grass along the banks of the river, ( where left ungrazed by the geese) is now knee high. This is the height it reaches when the stone fly hatch occurs.
Today's fishing? Same old, same old. The march browns hatched in modest numbers all afternoon long. In places where there has been fishing pressure the duns float along untouched. Subsurface boils marked fish locations as they ate only the nymphs. In the few places where the fish have been left alone, the duns are being slammed in splashy surface rises. There are several sizes of caddis around and I saw a few grey foxes and tiny dark winged olives on the WB. For the first time this year I saw a handful of sulfurs on the BR. I was on the BR late and there was no hatch or spinner fall during the last couple of hours of fishing.
My fishing day was boat free and only two angler were ever in view, one headed back to his car and the other trying to cross the BK where it was well over his waders. My warning yell was met by a cold stare.
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