Archive : Delaware River

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...

Good news everyone.  I just came from the West Branch of the Delaware and actually caught a fish.  In fact I caught two nice fish and had three others on the line that got off.  I cannot stress how important it is to check your knots and play the fish to the slower water as quickly as you can. ...

  See this guppy?  He is the only fish that allowed me to catch him in 2 and a half days of fishing on the West Branch of the Delaware River this past weekend. Thinking about going?  Bring lots of alcohol and a book or two to break the boredom.  The water was low, bugs were not consistently hatching,...

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...