Watch Out For Rattlers Sunning On The Tracks.

 

With Syracuse Univ. Scheduled to play Colgate at seven tonight I headed out this morning when the air got up close to sixty. The water temps have been good on the BR for almost a month, the flow has varied between 800cfs and 1,100cfs depending on how much water is needed to make minimum flow at Montague. Right now the hydro generators are running at Wallenpaupack so the Cannonsville release is a modest 625cfs. The low flows make wading easy, while the boaters have to use care getting down through the riffs, the BR is still lots better than the Willow at 17cfs, the BK at 62cfs, and the BE at 220cfs.

Have been told by a couple of guides who were on the river during the monster ant flight 10 days ago, that there were rising fish from Stilesville all the way down to Long Eddy. The fish appear to have begun moving back to home pools even without a significant rise in the water. Not one to ignore advice from those who know, I've been trying some of the less traveled paths and have found a few fish present in almost every pool I've tried.

This morning I was in the water at about 10:30 and saw nothing until I waded down into a quiet deep pool that usually is home to nothing but fall fish. Began to see rises without seeing any bugs in the air. Stared at the slow moving water for a good five minutes before two small ants floated by. Fish had ignored olives and spinners but enough of them ate my ants to make it a very good morning. Was in the car headed home at 1:00pm.

Just so you know, the fish that I've found have obviously spent the summer where they were fished to often. Last night I got two indignant refusals on an iso and this morning a good many casts at rising fish were either refused or ignored.   

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