Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

  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 foun...

  Killed another day doing nothing noteworthy. Somehow I skipped shooting the bow, I'll probably never have to mow the lawn again, left too much space between the two fences that are needed to keep the deer away from the tomato plants so, they jumped into the space between the two fences and ate most of the tomato plants by pulling them through the gaps in the inner fence. Left the Estate early and drove up to Deposit, chatted with Dave who told me that a group that was here last weekend did well on the BR. Wanted to see if he had a vacancy tomorrow night so that I could watch the Syracuse football game, but he was booked solid. My plan now is to fish in the morning and head home, as the game starts at seven and would mess up the evening fishing anyway. The bugs - Saw several isos, (they wouldn't eat mine), some good sized olives, (18s), late, and nothing else. The fishing - Was better than I could have hoped for. Fished where there were plenty of footprints in the sand/mud alo...

  When people ask me where I'm going to fish, I often say, the first place I find with no fishermen in it. It's not that I don't ever have a plan, because I do, but more often than not the plan is changed because another fisherman's plan was to get to the same place fifteen minutes before I did. My plan this morning was to give the Lordville riff it's weekly exam. The fish almost all move to cooler water during the hot summer months and by fishing the pool once a week it gives me an indication of fish movement back to their home pools. I've fished it the last three weeks and am averaging 1.33 fish per trip. With the water temp now ideal, I was anxious to see if any fish had moved back home despite the very low water levels. At 10:30 this morning with the porch temp approaching 60, I drove over to the other side of the tracks, (this is a concession to my age as I used to walk), only to find not one, but four anglers taking the very same survey I was going to take...

  A week ago there were all kinds of olives when the release from Cannonsville was up around 800. When the release was cut back to the mid 400's the bug activity, (at least where I fished), came to a screeching halt. The last two days the release has been between 475 and 525cfs and the olives have covered the water. There is no way to predict what the flows will be, the hydro at Wallenpaupack is running, there is no rain predicted in the ten day forecast and minimum flow has to be met. The bright sunny days are better for golf than fishing, the smallest olives are hatching but the fish don't like the bright sun. The evenings, however, are getting exciting. Lots of olives and rising fish, mostly rainbows. Rainbows love to eat flies and you're as apt to hook the big ones as the yearlings. Judging by the lack of "How I did" comments on the reports, not many of you are still fishing. If it's due to the gloom and doom report of September 2nd I understand, we aren...

  Arrived back at the Lordville Estate about 12:30pm today. Put stuff away, ate lunch and mowed the lawn, parts of which are brown and haven't grown in six weeks while other parts, shaded by trees and houses, continued to grow. When I finished the mowing, I sat down and tied some very small olives including two 26's, the smallest flies I've ever tied.  Headed out to fish a little after three and with the water still relatively low, went back up to Deposit. There were tiny little olives but the fish seemed reluctant to rise in the bright sun. Had one big cloud block the sun and at least a dozen fish started to rise, as soon as the sun came out again everything quieted down. Departed at 5:00 with no clouds anywhere near the sun. Drove down river knowing I could wade the lower river pools at 500cfs. Found one that wasn't occupied and had fish to throw at in a good olive hatch until dark. The run I fished has big boulders that slow the current in some places while speeding ...