If people Don't Want To Listen, Perhaps You Should Just Stop Talking.

 There may be no cure for the summertime blues, but if you want to beat the heat, put your waders on and go stand in the WB, you may not catch any fish, but you won't complain about the heat. Today it was advantage wade fishermen as the guys in the boats fried like eggs on the griddle.

Last Friday I looked for the Dorotheas and all I found were the empty nymph husks, (was downstream from the hatch). Called Jim N. who spent the last couple of days in the middle of the hatch and he put me in the right place. Crowded? From 12:00 until 2:15 when I was back in the car, I saw nary a fisherman or a boat.

The bugs - The Dorotheas are coming. Judging by the cars and fishermen they are now in the lower part of the WB no-kill in numbers. The Invaria, don't appear to be ready to leave any time soon. Again judging by the anglers, they are to be found in numbers from Butler Brook up to Cold Springs Brook. 

Things that drive me nuts - Been writing these reports for at least ten years and try to give advice aimed at helping people catch more fish on the Delaware. I watch fishermen and I'm convinced that either no one reads the reports or no one believes a thing I say. Please, if you want to catch fish, be willing to believe that the fish are at least as good at this game you are. I could list the ways trout have upped their game since catch and release became a thing, but I would be scoffed at by a huge majority of the fishermen out there who's only concern is that "They can't figure out what they're eating."  

The fishing - Being in the right place for both the Dorothea and Invaria hatches helped make it a good day. Found some noses out of the water eating both Dorotheas and Invaria. It wasn't until the evening spinner fall that I got my tail kicked. There was fog, spinners on the water, some rising fish, and me with no answers. The fish ignored whatever I threw. When I didn't even get refusals with flies on the water, (both duns and spinners), I looked for midges, (when the Delaware trout key in on midges you need to just reel it in), but I couldn't see any in the fog.   

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