To Come Or Not To Come - That Is The Question

 

It was another difficult day to be on the river. High temp of 49 with a light all day drizzle, with a wind   from the SE that really was no factor. We left the Lordville Estate about 1:30 in hopes of at least finding some olives. Stopped at every place where we could view the river. Drove up the PA side stopping two places on the BR and then all the way up the WB without seeing a single rise or bug, until we drove along the road above the Stilesville DEC parking area where we saw not one, but two fish rise.

Chatted with two gentlemen walking back down the road to their car who said there were bugs yesterday but none today. Stopped at the Troutfitter to buy tippet and flotant, (did absolutely no mewling), and then headed back to the fishing camp. The car said it was still 49 degrees and we were ready to call it a day, don't know why, but I drove down to the river for one last look, and there were bugs on the water and fish rising everywhere.

The fishing - We spent from 5:00 until 7:00 casting at rising fish with the water covered with March Browns, Gray Foxes, sulfers, and tiny olives. In two hours we hooked ten fish, landed six, and had an impressive number come up to let us know that the either the fly, or the cast just wasn't quite up to snuff. Those two hours more than saved the day. 

The fishing - It is what it is. The forecast for the next ten days show one partly cloudy day, nine days of rain, with the high temperatures to be in the low sixties. As of today the rivers are not rising, the bugs want to hatch, the fish are eating. If it were me, I'd come. The streams may blow out, or it might get too cold for the bugs to hatch, or too windy for the spinners to fall, but it may be just good enough, (like this afternoon), that you are glad you are here, and if you don't come, for sure you will miss it.

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