Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

My 6:00 pm posting of yesterday (Wednesday) was quickly followed by a night of  heavy rain.  All rivers in the system are unfishable today.  The WB was spared the worst of it and streamer enthusiasts might well be able to float and fish on the weekend (assuming no additional precipitation). The Beaverkill crested at about 11.000 CFS, (above the 10,000 CFS flood line), with the EB hitting 15,000 CFS at the Fishs Eddy gage.  With the addition of WB water and tribs along the way the Big River back of camp will probably hit about 20,000 CFS. The good news?  This last batch of storms finally hit both branches above the reservoirs and they are receiving a healthy dose of additional water.  Perhaps NYC will open the spigots when things quiet down and give the rivers some additional cold water. Enjoy your weekend. 

The game was called today due to wet grounds. If there is no additional rain tonight the UEB (off color at present) will be playable tomorrow. The WB is both high and muddy, any fishing will be above Oquaga, best to wait another day. The warm rain water has raised the daily low temp on both rivers while  lowered the high temp on the UEB and raising it on the WB. What effect this will have on the hatches remains to be seen.

If you haven't noticed it's a little crazy down here.  It's rained (sometimes quite hard) on and off in Lordville for the past two days.  Humphries Brook is roaring.  The BK hit 4000 CFS today and all that orange/brown muddy water is roaring down the BE and the BR at levels up to 6000 CFS. At 3:00 this afternoon the WB was at 550 CFS and dropping the UEB was at 240CFS and falling.  Strange or what?  Drove up the PA side on 191 just to check out the WB.  At the bridge in Hancock it was clear and very fishable.  Got on 17 heading for Deposit and hit rain about a mile up the road.  It rained like it never rained before until I got to the 17 rest area.  Then it stopped.  Drove into Deposit and looked at the river from the town bridge.  Half mud, half clear.  Went down to Norbord and looked what Oquaga was contributing (all mud).  Did my daily u-turn and headed for the UEB.  Caught up with the rain at Fishes Eddy but by the time I got to East Branch the road was dry.  Drove

Arrived at camp about 1:00 to find that one of the large rhododendrons out front had been blown over by Mondays wind and that several limbs on the peach trees had been pulled down and broken by the local deer and their friends.  Spent most of the afternoon trying to restore order.  Considerable work remains. Left to fish about 4:15 and turned the wrong way.  Had come through showers around Deposit on the way down and wanted to avoid the fog so I headed to the UEB.  They had had rain earlier but the tribs were clear and the road dry.  Never saw a rise anywhere and five of the seven spots I considered fishing already had a fisherman in them. Back on the road headed for the WB.  To my surprise there was no fog.  Drove through several showers and stopped wherever I could get a look at the stream, again no risers and very few fishermen.  By 7:15 there were sulfurs on the water, which was clear above Oquaga and a little milky below, when I saw a couple fish rise I decided to give it a tr