Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

With the Delaware system having been hit hard again by the frontal system that passed through the area yesterday wade fishing is out of the question.  If you want to throw streamers out of a boat into high turbid water be my guest. More rain is forecast for today. If you are in need of a fishing fix you might give thought to driving north to the Salmon River or one of Lake Ontario's other numerous tributaries.  The water level is good even after yesterdays rain and the rivers are full of fresh run salmon. It's sure to be crowded but judging by the number of broken rods being brought back to the Troutfitter for repairs, everyone is into big fish. If you stop at the shop on the way up Dave and Rick will fill you in on the latest reports.  As always they are well stocked with flies and equipment for the fall/winter salmon, brown trout and steelhead season on the lake Ontario tributaries. If all goes as planned by 7:15 am tomorrow morning I'll be on a plane heading for ...

My decision to take a trip out to the San Juan is looking better every minute. NYC has raised the release on the WB from 700 CFS to at least 1200 CFS (further step ups may well be coming).  Mother nature has also gotten into the act by dropping enough rain on the river system as of noon on Tuesday to make the entire system again unwadeable.  It will soon be too muddy to even be worth floating. With rain expected to continue for the rest of the day and more on tap for tomorrow it's time to look elsewhere for your entertainment. There will be no wade fishing before my trip departure on Friday and given the current weather pattern there may be no wade fishing for the foreseeable future. You have only to look back at the DRC blog's "catch of the day" pictures over the past couple of months to get a sense of the fishing.  This is not intended as anything negative about the DRC as they have top notch guides, there has just been too much water!  I haven't had a cha...

With the promise of a pleasant drive along the river and a dinner out, my wife joined me on a Sunday trip to the camp.  She made short work of the lawn mowing while I finished up a stump removal project that I started back when it was 90 in the shade.  The back porch, where I had vacuumed up over 100 Pumpkin (aka October) caddis  a little over a week ago was again littered with them.  I've never seen so many! When the yard work was finished we drove up along the still swollen (4200 CFS) Big River.  Stopped at the Buckingham Launch sight (three trailers) and watched a trout 200 feet out in front of the ramp eating olives.  Further upstream in the flatwater half a dozen fish were rising.  Drove upstream , through town and into the Junction Pool lot.  There was a lone wade fisherman downstream standing in about three feet of water fast moving water  looking for rising fish.  Never saw him cast and never saw a rising fish.  Did see so...