The Fish In The WB Are All Sulfur, Olive And Iso Proof, Bring Ants If You Come.

 

Was in no hurry to get out fishing today. Tricos have a tough time landing on the water when it's windy, so didn't go. As I mentioned in yesterdays report, this was to be an olive day, and in some places it was. There were, however, other places where it wasn't. Left the Lordville  Estate at 2:30, sure the olives would be going by then. Drove up the PA side, glassed the BR at Buckingham, the WB at Shehawken, at Hale Eddy, and finally at the Deposit sewage treatment plant. First bug and rise I saw was at the sewage treatment plant. Drove around to the parking area, put on my waders, and waded cautiously, (does everyone but me know there is a t in cautiously?), downstream in greenish colored water from Oquaga to where the bugs were hatching and the fish were rising. I was there probably 45 minutes, (long enough to know I wouldn't catch anything), while the hatch of both sulfurs and olives increased to the point where the trout said OK, it's time to eat. Not a fish ate anything on the surface but the Oquaga water was aboil with both bugs and rising fish. The are times to fish and times to cut bait, I left.

Got a call from Dennis who, unbeknownst to me was no more than a quarter mile upstream. He said the river was alive with sulfurs and rising fish. I drove up to the Deposit Bridge, saw Dennis below the bridge and I went above the bridge, and in the fifteen minutes I was there, saw neither a bug on the water nor a fish rise. Go figure.

Drove down to the lower section of the WB, found an empty run and waded in. Got a refusal of my iso by a rainbow on the very first cast, then spent maybe 45 minutes getting two more refusals. There were olives on the water that the fish were ignoring. Got not a single take.

Next stop was on the BR at my home pool in Lordville. Saw one iso hatch while wading in, got two refusals from yearlings and had a third one eat my iso. Never saw a fish rise or another bug hatch. Drove up river at 7:15 and tried another place on the BR. Again there were no bugs, saw three fish rise, all of them ate my fly, broke one off on the strike, one broke me off for reasons unknown, and landed the third. Also landed two more rainbows and a 17 inch fall fish that failed to make fish of the day by one inch.

Before we go any further, I wanna know right now, who is John G. and how in hell did he ever figure out Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by the Shirelles?  It wasn't until I typed "rise" that the song came into my head. Would have bet the Estate that no one would  even realize that the title was a song, let alone come up with the title. I rate it the best ever song title find. Congrats John G.           

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