Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

  Thought I'd been Kimmeled this morning when the report hadn't appeared by 11:00am. The Troutfitter management said that an attempt was made to post it at 7:30am but apparently a wrong button was pushed. I'd prefer to think that the Troutfitter phone rang off the hook with room cancellations and demands that the report be posted in timely fashion. The Syracuse vs Duke football game - If anyone had any doubts about who the most important player on a football team is, they were laid to rest by today's game. With their starting quarterback out for the season, the Syracuse offense ran up a total of three points, while Duke, led by their $4,000,000.00 a year quarterback scored 38. The bugs - One thing is very clear. Olives love cold water and overcast, rainy days. With the temperature of the Cannonsville release water continuing to climb, the air temperatures, (both day and night), well above normal, and the sun doing it's very best to give the trout an excuse for not r...

  We finally got some rain in the water system, the BR hit 2,500cfs, the EB 1,800cfs while the BK peaked at 800cfs. The flows were dropping rapidly today, but I would bet the fish are on their way to their home pools, if not there already. The rain provided a big boost to the tribs where many of the yearlings have been stranded. Stopped and looked at two of the pools in Humphrey's Brook that each held 15/20 yearling rainbows Tuesday, and didn't see a fish, hopefully they found their way out into the BR.  With the river at Montague up over 3,500 cfs the release from Cannosville was cut back to the FFMP post September 1st rate of 350cfs, where it will stay unless or until the River Master calls for an increase to once again meet minimum flow. With the decrease in the release, the addition of what was very warm rain water, and an afternoon of bright sunshine the WB water temp spiked up to 65 degrees, and while this poses no threat to the trout, the olives that had been hatching a...

With the Cannonsville release cut back to 380cfs in anticipation of the rain, I stopped at both Buckingham and Shehawken on the way home to see what, if anything was happening. Buckingham was like a mill pond with neither bugs nor rising fish in the still water. It was a little after noon when I pulled into Shehawken and a drift boat was being taken out. They had been streamer fishing but said there were both bugs and rising fish all the way down. I suited up and gave it a try. There were olives and a few rising fish in a misty rain. Three of the first four fish I cast to ate. When the sky started to brighten both the bugs and rising fish slowed down. Got several refusals and hooked two more fish. Landed the 9 incher but lost a really nice rainbow that was eating duns and gulped mine down without hesitation. Reeled it in at 2:00 and headed for home. If the release stays down and the rainy conditions continue, I'll be back sometime Friday and may fish part of the weekend. The water ...

  Did another double header today.  This morning with good cloud cover the water temp in the EB was fine for fishing. Fished a riff/run down low hoping that some fish had started their migration back to their home pools, and they have, sorta. In almost two hours of fishing with no bugs on the water or in the air, I saw but one rise that wasn't to my fly. Had four fish refuse an olive and one fish, (a 14 inch brown), eat an ant. The evening fishing proved far more entertaining. With both the hope of rain and Wallenpaupack back up and running, the Cannonsville  release was cut back to 700cfs. At this level water clarity improves and you can wade fish all but the narrowest parts of the WB. Left the fishing camp at 5:00 and at 5:30 was in a pool in the middle section that had both olives and rising fish. Had a couple of flies that the fish seemed to like and had an enjoyable evening with a combination of refusals and takes keeping me busy until dark. Query - Has anyone had th...

  After spending most of Thursday, all of Friday, Saturday and Sunday not fishing, you'd think I'd be anxious to get back on the river, and I was, until I saw the release from Cannonsville was up to 1,150cfs. That eliminated the "tinted" water in the WB. The people who commented about their BR floats also did nothing to make me risk a speeding ticket driving down. The one positive, (I'll not talk about rain until it falls), was that it was cloudy.  Arrived at the Lordville Estate in time for lunch, and with rain at least in the forecast, I seeded and raked the area on the RR bank designated for an environmental upgrade, (better to mow grass than kill weeds), started up the mower and cut those few areas of the lawn that are still green, picked some more tomatoes, watered them for the last time, and went inside to try and figure out where to fish. It wasn't easy, (see paragraph 1 above), but when I checked the water temp on the EB at Hancock it was starting down...