Archive : Delaware River

Two friends and I recently enjoyed fishing a quality sulpher and blue winged olive hatch on the West Branch of the Delaware River.  There was a good flow (600 plus cfs) and stable water temperature (50 degrees).  With this heat spell, the Upper West Branch has been one of the more trout friendly fishing...

Anticipating a repeat of last Saturday, I journeyed to the West Branch of the Delaware hoping for another epic day of sulpher fishing. With the sulpher hatch well under way for a month, we knew that the fish were getting selective.  Sam (West Branch Angler’s Resort) encouraged us to throw a tiny...

As anglers, we tend to enjoy all aspects of fly fishing and relish each opportunity to wet a line.  I don’t know where I’d be without my annual dose of crashing bluefish, lazy farm bluegills, fresh tributary chrome, salmon madness in the fall, Thousand Island smallmouth, and so on.  We...

I was very pleased with this years trip to the West Branch of the Delaware River. No matter what happens the trip is always a learning experience and I always enjoy the company of my fellow Canandaigua Trout Unlimited friends. This year my strategy was to nymph deeper water in the morning then move up...

Each Spring I host a long weekend trip to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  I offer this trip through The Canandaigua Lake Chapter of Trout Unlimited and to any interested friends.  It is an affordable three night trip, a mere three hour drive from Rochester.  Each year we have a good mix of...

Two friends from North Carolina drove up to spend a week fishing the Delaware River System.  Both are semi-retired and enjoy superb Appalachian Trout and Tennessee Tailwater fishing.  One just returned from Chile and it seems like they enjoy exotic  angling trips annually.  It wasn’t a coincidence...

To cap off Spring Break I decided to make a day trip to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  I invited a friend to join me.  Greg never previously fished the WBD.  During the drive I enthusiastically described the nirvana attributes of the WBD during late April (wadable water conditions, opportunistic...

After church on Sunday, I made a motivated drive to the West Branch of the Delaware River.  I was motivated to fish because I liked the conditions.  Over the past week, the cubic feet per second (cfs) discharge from Cannonsville Reservoir dropped below 1,000.  Just three days ago, the cfs was in...

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The front that moved through Saturday brought gusty winds, rain, hail, sunshine, no wind, rainbows, bright sun and then clouds.  Challenging conditions for fishing the ever fickle West Branch.  We saw decent tan caddis and a limited hendrickson hatch (2:30 pm) w/ spinner fall (5-7 pm).  Between...