Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

With Don Holton's funeral services and burial  scheduled for mid day here in  Lordville there was no thought given to fishing this morning or afternoon. Went out this evening expecting isos, there  were next to none. It was  slow until about an hour before dark when there was quite a bit of bug activity. There were olives in various sizes, epherons and swarms of midges hovering about head high over the water. The fish got feeding (mostly subsurface)  as soon as the sun was off the water but it wasn't until the moon was the principal source of light that heads appeared and willingly ate my flies. My wife and I are leaving tomorrow morning for a drive up through New England. Not sure how long I'll be gone. If you get any rainy overcast days there should be olives early afternoon on both the BR and UE. Until we get enough rain to take care of the minimum flow requirements the WB will be high and colored. You will move a lot of fish there with streamers but are not likely

Had a number of stops to make in town including lunch at Ruston's Diner (the cholesterol capital of the world) with two old friends that I haven't seen in over a month. Left for camp about 1:00 with hopes of catching the afternoon iso hatch.  By the time I had unpacked and watered the lawn it was 3:30,  a little late for the isos but better than not fishing at all. It turned out that the Cannonsville release had been bumped up again and the increase had just hit where I was fishing. The isos were late hatching and no fish were feeding. Within half an hour the isos started hatching and shortly thereafter the fish started feeding. Unfortunately most of the fish were eating the nymphs. Cast at a dozen rises before a fish ate. In the next half an hour I hooked four fish (including a really nice brown) all at the top of a riff. I landed one ten inch rainbow, one  came unstuck and the brown and a nice rainbow broke me off when they ran down through the riff. Rather than hook and