Somebody Tell The Old Man When The Olive Are Hatching.

It's 7:30 and I'm back at the Lordville Estate, Perfect Manhattan in hand, ready to write a report. 

Drove back down this morning after a week in Lafayette. Was surprised by the number of fishermen on the river this morning, and was even more surprised when I went out to fish at 1:00 this afternoon. Drove up the PA side and went down to the Buckingham launch site to look for bugs, (there weren't any),  lost count of the trailers at over 12. Five of which were pointed out towards the road with their boats presumably on the way to Long Eddy. There were more cars and two trailers at Stockport, and a half dozen trailers at Shehawken with cars, SUV's and pickups lined up down in the parking lot. It's the last week in September and when I left last Friday, I thought the fishing had gotten tough and people would be gone.

The fishing - Found bugs and rising fish at a place on the lower WB, and hooked a fish on the very first cast, which was a nice way to start the day. Had fish to throw at for about two hours, but then things came to a halt. Decided to drive over to the BK which got a little bump from the rain the past few days. Saw fishermen all along the EB from Hancock to East Branch. Tried a riff/run in the lower part of the BK and never moved a fish. By 4:30 I was back on the lower WB, hoping that the bugs would crank up again. They didn't, (at least while I was there), but the fish were hungry and looking up through muddy water that limited my visibility of the bottom to about two feet, (the fish had no trouble coming up and refusing my fly in water that was too deep for me to wade in). Fished there until 6:00 and then headed back towards Lordville. Stopped at a place on the BR, (aka The Big River, Main Stem, The Delaware), for the last hour, where I have had rising fish to throw at every time I've fished there in the past six weeks.

How'd I do? For an old guy who's been out of the loop for a week, not bad. Had a dozen fish in the net, equally divided between the two WB spots and on the last cast of the night hooked and landed one of those turbo powered 16 inch rainbows that the BR is famous for. Half of the fish were 1.5 year old fish, now between 10 and 11 inches long. The other half were a mix of adult browns and rainbows with a 17 inch brown, (the biggest brown I've landed in ages) being fish of the day.

Don't have any idea about the bugs, saw a good mixed hatch of olives, (S,M,& LG) today from 1:00 until 3:00). Nothing on the BK 3:30 until 4:00, a very few bugs including isos and Hebes in the 4:30 to 6:00 slot and almost nothing on the BR. Hopefully one or two of the hords of anglers who were on the river today, read the reports, and will add their comments.