Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

Big news in Lordville, the bridge is open on Lordville Road, the work isn't finished but you can use the road. Is our mail lady ever happy.  Coming back from Vicky's after my haircut and an enjoyable hour plus conversation at the Troutfitter among three fishermen with a lot of tread wear, I had an early summer question answered on my drive down Lordville Road. There are two hen turkeys with 20 almost full grown youngsters still alive and well and not more than a quarter mile further down the road is another hen with her brood of eight that were about the size of pheasants, (if anyone remembers how big pheasants were). I had seen them all back in June but wasn't sure if there were two or three broods. Spent the better part of the afternoon working around the house and yard. It wasn't until 5:00 that I gave a thought to where I would fish. The 600cfs release from Pepacton has invigorated the UEB and most of the freestone system. The BK and Willow are still warmish but fis...

  I was a little smarter today than yesterday. Spent the day sprucing up the Lordville Estate. Made and attached a screen on an attic window, removed the overflow Gorilla Glue from my threshold installation job of two weeks ago, replaced or straightened, and secured the bottom row of cedar shakes on one side of the garage, and still had time to eat lunch, shoot the bow, and do both a crossword and a sudoku. At six o'clock I went fishing. Yesterday from three in the afternoon until dark, (8:00), I hooked five "counter" fish, landed four of them including two big heavy 'bows. Today between a little after 6:00 and a little before 8:00, I hooked another five fish. Only trouble was today the two big rainbows both came unstuck, one from a spin out and one just because. The fish I caught were all browns, the biggest of which was 16 inches. These are some of the nicest days of the year, unless you are a fisherman. Dennis, go play another round of golf. I'll write Mrs. Den...

   Left the fishing camp at 2:30 and headed east, determined to right the ship. The WB release has been raised to six hundred, the silt is coloring the water, no one is reporting any bugs or rising fish and I wanted to give the EB, UEB, and BK a good look.  Started out driving up the UEB. With a release of 600cfs, it's fishable for waders, with care. The water was colored by the silt deposited during hurricane Debby's onslaught. The increased flow is a good thing for many reasons. First, it will flush out a lot of the silt. Second, it will raise the level of the EB and at the same time cool it off. Third, it will also hopefully encourage fish return to their home pools. Saw no fishermen, bug or rising fish. Did not fish. Drove over to the BK on old rte.17 and either fished or walked the banks of four of the best iso spots I know. It is almost a certainty that Debby had a profound negative effect on the insect life in the system.  The number of iso husks on the stream...

  Hats off to the grammarian who works tirelessly in the background to improve our end product here at A-119. Found a record five errors in yesterday's offering. I didn't get up until 7:45 so unfortunately, I had no chance to proofread my work in the morning, (as I usually do), let alone white out the errors the grammarian found before David at the Troutfitter posted it.  There were two bright spots in an otherwise difficult day of fishing. The first came when I was walking through the knotweed from a pool on the BK to my car.  I encountered Ed S., one of our highly esteemed Assoc. Eds., (can you put a period before a comma?), (Mrs. Haskins is tearing her hair out, 'cause I just did it twice). We had a nice chat, (there was no hurry to get back into the stream), and before we were finished, a blog reader pulled in and identified us both, (sadly he never asked either of us for our autograph). Without insulting anyone who was present, there was over two hundred years of exp...

  The trip down to Florida and back went without a hitch. Saw three volleyball games, and watched the team eat eight pounds of bacon, four dozen sausage patties, one hundred and twenty eggs, too many pancakes to count, five quarts of juice, and a mountain of fresh fruit at our daughter's house Saturday morning. Unfortunately they lost all three matches in the tournament (the last two in five sets). They were playing without their best right side hitter the entire match, and for reasons I couldn't fathom, one of  their two best outside hitters for seven of the ten games in the two five set matches. On the bright side, our granddaughter Logan made the all tournament team. Arrived at the Lordville Estate at 2:00 this afternoon after taking care of neglected items at home, stopping at BJ's for food, Home Depot for several items, and back home for the things I forgot. The Lordville Road bridge is still not finished, (thank God I didn't go 97). Put my food and clothes away, a...

  It's the end of August and time for a review of our musical experts success in identifying the months references to old time musical classics.   On August 2nd, "Hot August Night" was correctly identified by Dennis, (our expert on Neil Diamond), as a Neil Diamond song. On August 6th, Dennis took a called third strike on "Done Too Soon" which was a far more popular Diamond song. On August 14th, Keith, (our Harry Chapin expert), let "Changes Keep On  Changing" go by without comment. On August 21st  Maybe Tomorrow, an excerpt from Roy Orbison's "Only The Lonely", slipped by unnoticed exposing our lack of expertise in the country music field.. On August 26th our desperate need for a country music expert was  made clear when Terri Clark's "I've Got Better Things To Do", passed by without anyone saying a word. On August 27th Jim Dygert showed his worth by recognizing Leo Sayers "Long Tall Glasses", from the "Yo...