The Fuse Is Lit.

 The river system is a time bomb, I just don't know when its going to explode. 

Left the fishing camp about 12:00 and drove up the PA side hoping to find bugs and rising fish. There were March Browns hatching and fish rising at Buckingham but the boats already launched and several wade fishermen had them well covered. The WB at Shehawken had nary a bug to be seen. Drove along the river below Deposit and saw neither bugs nor risers from the town bridge to the Men's Club. Picked up my new fly line from Dave at the Troutfitter who said there have been risers below the town bridge in the morning, (Hendrickson spinners?), he also mentioned that there were still Hendrickson hatching in the Deposit area.

Mark is back, has never fished the Red Barn and I said he should give it a try. Dennis plays golf on Tuesday so I fished his spot. Mark hooked three and landed two, (both 19 inchers), and was quite pleased with himself. Made sure he didn't get overconfident by placing him in spots where he had little hope of catching fish the rest of the day.

The fishing - Continues to be an enigma. The Hendricksons are still on the water, there are March Browns on all of the freestones, a smattering of Invaria and Gray Foxes are seen most nights, there are reports of Isos, (still haven't seen one and neither have the Grackles). What risers there are, are eating spinners or caddis. Last weekend with the cold rainy weather there were massive hatches of all kinds of bugs with fish eager to eat them. The last two days, you have to look for risers and make good casts to even get one to come up and look. 

The outlook- We are entering the last few days of May, "it", (the big bugs), will almost certainly be over by June 10th. I don't know when it will happen, but it will happen soon, try to spend some time here in the next two weeks, if "it" happens when you're here, you won't regret it.