West Branch - Delaware River
This past weekend my friend, Craig Dennison, filed this report from the West Branch of the Delaware River. Thanks for the Report Craig.
Just a friendly summer reminder to my angling friends that one of our Crown Jewels of Angling (West Branch of the Delaware), continues to fish well during the early summer months. On Saturday morning I enjoyed fishing a riffle stretch w/ a few trout feeding on caddis. Fun to pick off several fish in faster water on the surface. The rainbows really run and are acrobatic in the Delaware!
Later in the afternoon, I fished the Lower Trophy Water and enjoyed nearly four hours of solid sulphers, from size #16 to #20. Long leaders, accurate casts, numerous pattern hanges (cripples/emergers/duns) and I landed
several quality fish from 12″ to 21″. There were times my fly couldn’t compete w/ the dozens of nearby naturals. I won’t be able to fish it again for a few weeks, but wanted to let you know that there can be some great riffle and sulpher fishing over the next month. Hope that you have a chance to check it out.
Enjoy and tight lines.
Craig
