Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

 Home in Lafayette watching a logging company take down some enormous dead and dying ash trees along with some other trees that pose a hazard to the house, driveway and power line. Will not be back down to the "Lordville Estate" until at least Tuesday but thought it worth mentioning that as delightful as the past couple of days may have been, they were probably not good pseudo days. Why? Check the water temps that went from the high 40's to the high 50's. Pseudos like cold snotty weather. When I headed home Tuesday I stopped where the bugs were hatching the day before (at the same time) and there was not a bug to be seen. Also stopped in Deposit to check on the fish rising below the town bridge. There were a few rises but nothing like when the bugs were hatching the day before. If you want to go out on a positive note try to pick a cold windless day with water temps around 50. You may not catch anything but you should see both bugs and rising fish. If you've alrea...

 Continued work on the camp shutdown, am at the stage where everything can be finished with one overnight stay. Am not anxious to shut things down as the fishing has been good and the bucks have not  made an appearance in Lafayette since mid September.  Am heading home either tomorrow night or early Monday to be present when the dead ash trees are cut down around our house. Future fishing will depend on weather and deer activity. Left camp at noon today and returned to where my fishing was interrupted yesterday. Yesterday seven fish hooked in one hour, today three fish hooked in two hours. The bugs were going and the fish were rising, they just didn't eat flies with hooks in 'em. There's a lesson there for everyone (myself included, I should know better). With little bug activity when I arrived at my second stop, I took a long walk upstream. At about 2:30 both the bugs (just pseudos) and the fish got going. Unfortunately I was not invited to the table as my flies were pre...

 Learned a long time ago that you earn every fish you catch in the Delaware.  Don't know if I earned todays two hours of fishing during my two days in purgatory last week or if I'm going to be paying for them later this week but it was grand. Drove down this morning arriving at noon, did a mow grass/ rake leaves combo, ate a sandwich and at 2:00 I headed for the river. Was amazed at the number of fishermen until I realized it was Sunday and a nice one at that.  Sixty-five degrees, no wind, bugs and feeding fish. Who could ask for anything more? The fishing was great, while it lasted.  Hooked seven rainbows the first hour (the last one a big 'bow by the tail that came unhooked as I was pulling it up to shore. Watched a pontoon boat fisherman come down the river, row over to the far side and walk the boat down to me. Was about to thank him for being courteous when he stopped right across the river from me, not 35 feet away, got out his nymph rig and started casting rig...