Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

The camp close down is underway. Storms up, grill in the garage and one load of accumulated trash taken to the dump. Fly tying room was scheduled to be put in mothballs (literally) today but I got into cleaning the closet and things slowed down. Will attempt to finish the job tomorrow. In the confusion I forgot to check the USGS  water flows before leaving camp. Drove all the way up to Corbett before realising that the Pepacton release had been bumped up and  there would probably be no pseudo hatch.  Drove from 1:15 until 3:15 (using over a quarter of a tank of gas) without seeing a rising fish anywhere.  The rivers were not crowded but there were people fishing in seven of the pools I looked at.  Was thwarted in my attempts to fish the eighth pool by a road closure.  Black cats crossed my path in Lordville, Hancock and Fishs Eddy.  Probably just a coincidence. Finally found an open pool on the BE.  Have fished it a couple times this year with...

At 7:00 this morning it had still not wet the ground under the trees in Lordville. By 8:00 it was raining and it has rained most of the day.  If the browns are going to get up the tribs we need much more of the same but at least it's a start. Couldn't mow the lawn, so I left early hoping to find some olives hatching (I didn't).  Caught a nice rainbow on a blind cast in the BE and lost a another nice one in the BK.  At 2:30 I drove up the UE, found one of the better pools in the lower half  empty, parked and waded in. There were pseudos and what looked (in my hand) like "pink ladies" that appeared enormous compared to the pseudos but were somewhere around a 16/18, all over the water. The fish?  They were rising EVERYWHERE. A blind man would have covered three fish on every cast.  Did they eat? You betcha!  Was into really nice sized fish (both browns and rainbows) for four solid hours.  In the very low water you had to let things settle down be...

The weather forecast calling for two rainy days in a row got me packing the car and heading back down to the camp. It was a little chilly inside the camp and I had to turn on the heat to get things warmed up.  Left camp at about 1:30 hoping for pseudos and rising fish. Drove up the PA side and saw nothing but muddy water. The river was just starting to come down from the cut back in the release from Cannonsville. Six boat trailers at Buckingham but nary a bug or riser to be seen there.  Stockport had a couple of trailers but only one car.  Don't like to wade in the muddy water when you can't see bottom unless there are bugs and risers.  I headed up the BE and UE looking for bugs. First rise I saw was at Harvard. There were fishermen in most of the pools in the lower half of the UE and when I saw a couple of rises in a pool with no fishermen I didn't need to be told to get fishing. There were enough fish up to keep me interested and enough fish that ate my fly to ...