Angler 119's Delaware River Fishing Report

  All I had to do was say I planned on giving the WB a try, and the River Master cranked up the release to 1,000cfs. To make matters worse the wind blew out of the north at between 10 and 20mph, (when the sun came out it blew 20 steady). Tied four Hebes, and then put away my fly tying equipment for the year. If you are a fly tyer, you know that it's a job that starts right after breakfast doesn't finish up until it's time for a late lunch at 1:00. If you don't tie flies, you wouldn't understand. This afternoon I mowed, and then planted grass seed in some of the places where the combination of no rain and an infestation of grubs left large areas of the lawn without a blade of green grass. At 5:00 pm the wind was still creating white caps on the river and twirling leaves around in mini tornadoes. Trusting that the wind would go down with the sun, I headed out to fish. I was way to early. In fact with the wind scheduled to blow at 15/25 tomorrow I might well have been ...

Free of appointments for the next week I drove down to try the fishing, work on the Lordville Estate closedown and maybe see if any bucks showed up to admire the Lordville ladies. Loaded the car with detritus from the garage and combined a trip to the transfer station with some east side fishing. The first stop was at the BK, which at 180cfs is fishable. Fished from about 2:00 until 4:15. The bad, saw but two fish rise, two olives hatch, and about half a dozen Hebes blow by in the wind. The good, had eleven fish come to my flies. Six refused, five ate and I landed two of them, both rainbows between 10 and 11 inches. The one good fish I rose did a somersault two inches from the fly when he decided not to eat it. Drove down river to the EB where I fished from 4:30 until 5:30. Saw one fish rise, (never looked at my fly). Saw no bugs. Rose three fish and landed the one that ate, (another 10.5 inch rainbow). Final stop was on the BR at a pool close to home. Fished for forty-five minutes. Sa...

  Jean and I drove down to the Lordville Estate Saturday morning to take care of a "couple little tasks" that took four hands, and to take in the Catskill leaves, which are supposed to be at their peak on Columbus Day weekend. There might have also been a promise of a dinner out at the Riverside Restaurant at Horton but more on that later.  We started by erecting a section of new fence where the deer were jumping over the old one. Jean held the posts while I tried to hit them with the maul. Hit the posts squarely about 50% of the time, never missed completely, (didn't hit Jean even once). We attached the fence to the posts, and called it a done deal. The window AC only required Jean to make sure it didn't fall out the window when I took out the jambs that held the window down on the AC, (five minutes total time). Jean then handed me up, (I was on the ladder), 32 metal poles that I stored on the trusses in the garage where the next owner of the estate will no doubt fin...

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...