Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

Never known for my technical wizardry, my first post of the year never found it's way to the Troutfitter web page (it can be viewed by Googling  "Angler 119's  Delaware River Fishing reports").  David at the Troutfitter has assured me that the way has been cleared for this and future efforts to appear in their usual place on their website. After an enjoyable week of bonefishing with long time friends the first week of April, my wife and I headed for home early Tuesday morning.  The traffic was relatively light and we arrived home about 3:00 pm on Wednesday. Drove down to the camp today to open things up and see if it was time to put my 28 year old hot water heater and refrigerator out to the curb.  Apparently the winter off did them both a world of good as the water was hot and the refrigerator cold within the first half hour.  Seems they are both planning on out lasting me. With the reservoirs filled to the brim, the releases have been steadily increased to

From my vantage point here in the Florida Keys it's easy to believe that there are Hendricksons hatching on the Delaware and trout rising everywhere.  One of the blogs has already reported (in mid March) rising fish.  Sometime in the next couple of weeks there will be reports of Hendrickson sightings.  My log books tell me otherwise.  If the reservoirs are way down, the releases are at minimum levels, there is a prolonged warm spell and the sun is shining every day, I've seen good hatches of Quill Gordons by mid April. Although the reservoirs are close to spilling the releases have been cut back and warm sunny days have had fish rising to eat stone flies. With rain in the forecast there is a good likelihood of  increased releases and substantial run off which will keep the water temperatures down and probably push meaningful hatches back to about the last week of April. That may not be the way you remember it but 28 years of record keeping on the Delaware paints a pretty clea