Sometimes it don't come easy.

With the weatherman calling for three 90 degree days in a row and the water temp at Lordville 66 degrees I gave the BR one last shot. Fished part way up to Stockport where the temp read 64 on my arrival and 65.5 on my departure. There were a few olives and some spinners, I caught rainbows on both (two each). Was wringing wet by the time I got back to the car at 10:30.

Worked around the camp until 3:30 when I just needed to get into the car and enjoy the air conditioning. Drove up to the UE fully expecting a replay of last nights massacre, which of course didn't happen. Bright sun, a meager hatch of olives and a lot of kayaks saw to that. Was chatting with another UE angler who also had sulfurs last night (5 miles upstream from where I was) when the thunderstorms rolled in. There was more thunder than rain but I had to keep changing pools to dodge the storms. Even a breathable raincoat gave me no joy. The sulfur hatch never happened but the fish fed on sulfur spinners in the fog and weren't too fussy about how well they were tied.

It's the weekend and rte 17 was busy on the way back to camp. The Lumberjack Festival is this weekend and all motels have "No Vacancy" signs hung out. If you are going to be in the area you might be well advised to take in the festival during the midday heat. It's been quite a dry spell for the DRC's fish of the day picture and as I've said before it's not their fault, their guides are among the best, it's just tough fishing right now . If you go, fish tricos or spinners early, take in the festival midday and go out after the sun goes behind the hills and fish 'til dark (it's your best chance).

So You Know - There has been a big thermal release on the WB (release is up to 900) and small thermal releases on both the EB and the Neversink, they are scheduled to continue until late Sunday.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

All my life's a circle.

  Headed down to the Lordville Estate about nine this morning after watching a nice buck decide  not to tend the scrape I was perched above. Drove through Deposit where the Troutfitter Shop was dark and closed for the season. My fishing equipment did not make the trip. Had far too many things to do in the few hours of daylight we are currently being allotted. The doe with two fawns was in the backyard when I arrived and was joined by the orphaned button buck who spends his time either bedded down in my flower garden or walking around under the peach trees looking for the peaches he grew so fond of in September. Arrived with a trailer full of wood hitched to Jean's car (it has the trailer hitch) and spent the first hour replenishing the wood I burned this season. As if by magic both wood piles topped out just below the garage windows. Was interrupted by the button buck who walked up between the house and the garage and stood watching the wood stacking operation. A river friend and f
Read more

IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN!

 It's Wednesday night, a fire is going in the fire place, an empty Perfect Manhattan glass is washed and back up on the shelf, 30 shrimp netted from Zane Gray Creek ((did you know that Zane Gray (famous fly fisherman and writer of westerns) was a dentist and that his office is now a museum that you can visit on the Delaware River?)), have been consumed by Jean and me, prior to the three pieces of venison backstrap that traveled from home to Florida and back, an early spring snowstorm is raging outside and most importantly, we're glad to be back home again! With that season opening sentence, Mrs. Haskins has no doubt thrown in the towel and disavowed all responsibility for my literary malfunctions. Run on sentences she could handle, but my never before attempted "double aside" was apparently beyond the pall. I sent her a "Go Duke" banner with apologies and hopefully she will cool off before the fishing heats up. Our trip back home was uneventful. Started at 2
Read more

A rational explanation escapes me.

 Yesterday after driving up and down the "Sulfur Zone" in the afternoon without seeing bugs or rising fish, I headed back to Lordville without even putting my waders on. Headed out again at 6:00, got into the river around 6:30 and had two hours of delightful dry fly fishing to medium sized fish eating duns in a good sulfur hatch. Today, I made the trip up to deposit at about 1:30 figuring the cloud cover would delay the hatch (if any), it did, but by 2:30 the afternoon sulfurs were going and the fish were up and on them. Enjoyed about two hours of good fishing with four decent fish hooked and landed, two yearlings landed and a passel of refusals. About 4:30 the rise forms changed to boils and my fly was ignored. Tried half a dozen flies without so much as a look from the still feeding fish. Was happy with the afternoon fishing, (a big step up from Sunday), and at 5:00 it was too late to drive all the way back to Lordville. Decided to get something at Wendy's (calorie capi
Read more