Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

Have spent yesterday afternoon and today at the Lordville Estate, fished a couple of hours each night, and nothing's changed my opinion on the current fishing conditions. Fished the EB for about 45 minutes, it was bugless. Had a nice rainbow eat a caddis with a dull hook, one jump and gone.  Drove over to the WB, hoping to find both olives and rising fish, found neither. Fished from five until 6:15, saw two rises not to my fly, and almost no olives. Have never caught a fish on the October caddis that I continue to carry in my caddis box. Tonight a fish came up and ate it. He came unstuck, keeping my record of futility fishing the October caddis intact. Got a refusal and a take on olives and a take on a floating iso nymph. Landed the 10 inch brown that ate the olive.  The radar makes it look like we will get precious little rain from the front pushing through tonight. The power plant at Wallenpaupack is not operating. They reached the drawdown level for October 1st, in Septembe...

  Drove down to the Lordville Estate mid- day today to get rid of the tomatoes rotting on the back porch and to begin work on some of the early close down items. Have to be back in Lafayette Wednesday for a doctors appointment, but with rain scheduled for tomorrow I felt good about making the trip. The rain has now been pushed back until tomorrow night, so fishing in the rain has been crossed off the list. To my surprise the tomatoes are still OK, mowed what little grass that is growing and at about 5:00 I went fishing. Checked the release and balanced water clarity, flow and temperature before heading out. Surprisingly with the temp in the eighties and the rivers very low, all were fishable temperature wise. I guess the low angle of the sun doesn't heat the water up like it does in July. Drove to an empty pool on the BR and was surprised by the results. There were no may flies. Brown caddis were flying up river during the last hour and the only fish I saw were those jumping out of...

  It's been over a month since the staff here at "Angler119's Delaware River Fishing Reports" has  assembled the questions that have come in from contributors. Shame on them. I'll do my best to see that they get them to me more promptly in the future. Chris asked about the fall fishing. With the summer continuing into the first week of October, as yet, we haven't had any. The predicted weather change coming mid week should cool things off and start the fall fishing. Usually, with the cooler water temperatures of the fall, the pseudos' hatch during the warmest part of the day, (2:00 'til 5:00). They are found on all of the rivers but with the current drought conditions, I'm not at all sure where there will be fishable water. As the water temperatures continue to cool, both isos and hebes should also hatch. The isos start a bit later in the day than the pseudos' and the hebes get going as the last isos are hatching. Ron K asked if I use head ceme...