Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

 It's 8:45, pitch black outside (except for the lightning flashes) and I'm sitting here with nothing to do but write a blog page with nothing to say.  Drove down this morning but was too late to fish. Put things away and did a short drive around the area looking for bugs and/or risers, saw neither. Returned to the Lordville Estate before the first afternoon showers hit, did a sudoku and a crossword, may have dozed off for an hour or so, and at about 6:00, when the radar showed the rain to be south of Rte. 17, I headed out hoping to get in a little fishing.  I did.   Saw no fishermen, bugs or fish on two stops along the BE.  Turned up Rte.30 at the Sunoco station and saw but a couple of cars parked in pull offs below Long Flat.  The Long Flat lot had six cars, Power Line strangely  had only one.  Saw a couple of rises at Pleasant Valley and climbed down the bank and in less than half an hour caught two (12 inch) trout on blind casts, neither of which I saw eat the fly. Was ignor

 An early Monday morning trip to the BR closed out what was for me, the best month of May ever. Eight of the eleven fish landed were between 17 and 20 inches!  With the prediction of near record heat for the following two days it was an easy decision to head home and cross items off an ever growing to-do list.  Sunday I had driven around the system in bright sunlight and soaring temps. The effect on the rivers was dramatic. The Deposit area which had been inundated with both bugs, fishermen and rising fish had none of the above. It has clearly entered the doldrums. With the balance of the big bugs moving steadily up river it won't be long before spring sulfurs and gray foxes appear there but Sundays absence of bugs and rising fish was amazing.  The rest of the rivers were much same, bright sun, and hot air temps pushed the hatches back to almost dark. The sun and hot air  Monday and Tuesday pushed the freestone stream temps  well up over the 70 degree no fishing mark. Thermal relea