Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

On margin this has been a very good week. Yes, Tuesday was something of a rotter what with the wind, cold air and cold water stifling the bugs and consequentially almost no fish were up.  Me burning $4.95 cent per gallon gas on a fools errand looking  for Hendricksons and/or rising fish on the UEB did nothing to take the curse off the day.  Monday and Thursday were for me, good fishing days. There were enough bugs to get some fish up, if you made a good cast you got a look and there were enough fish willing to eat the fly to make both days entertaining and successful. Wednesday was another story.  There was no wind. Where I fished there were enough Hendricksons to get the fish feeding but not so many that they wouldn't see your fly.  There was a good caddis hatch. There was a epic caddis spinner flight up the WB through Deposit and there was a more than adequate Hendrickson spinner fall. I cast flies at rising fish from 2:00 until 8:00 and not many said no....

After six straight fishing days with big fish seemingly lining up for a chance to eat my flies, I just may have been a tad full of myself.  Waited until about 9:30 to head out in search of a spinner fall and on the way came as close as you could ever come to running over a new born fawn.  The fawn trotted out onto my lane from under the guard rail in the median on rte. 17.  I  have always said don't kill yourself and/or others trying to avoid an animal in the road. I'm not a NASCAR driver and I don't believe that jerking the wheel hard to the right and then quickly back again to the left moved the car more than a foot but I think it was enough. Looked in the rear view mirror and the fawn was down on the pavement.  Even though I didn't hear a thump or feel a bump, my heart sank, no one wants to hit a new born deer. Then the deer got to it's feet and continued it's trip across future interstate route 86, hopefully to link up with mom.   The morning spinn...