Who Knows Where Or When.

Home and thankful to be here rather than trying to battle the wind on the river today. Put up a couple of trail cams, and will be heading back down to the Lordville Estate tomorrow morning. Now is as good a time as any to answer the weeks questions.

Glenn wanted to know where have all the tricos gone? If anyone found good trico hatches on the UEB before Debby hit please let us know. I didn't make a trico trip to the UEB until after water levels got back to normal and didn't see more than a dozen of the little guys. I've also failed to find any good iso hatches. There's no grackles eating them along the shoreline rocks or cedar waxwings flying out to pick them off over the water. The obvious culprit is Debby as the flood waters moved tons of rocks around in some of the rivers. Many nymphs were probably crushed or washed down to Delaware bay.

Greg Tarris wants to know what the clouds of little bugs he saw were. Best guess is either mating pseudos or midges. Tricos do their dance in the morning.

Dopderbeck pointed out two seemingly different descriptions of the fishing on the BK. Not a word of a lie in either report. I left the BK at 6:00 with bright sun still on the water. I had seen isos, caddis, olives and rising fish. When the sun got off the water I'm sure the other bugs he described also hatched. I made a decision to fish a pool on the BR and it turned out to be a decision I didn't regret. It was a beautiful night to be on either river.

Chris is looking for a chance to increase his odds of meeting olives on the Delaware in the fall. They hatch on all of the rivers. The WB is starting to suck out accumulated silt and is getting colored up in Deposit. It is still relatively clear in the lower sections. Look at water levels on all of the rivers before you come and pick places where you are comfortable wading. If the weather is warm and sunny the olives probably won't hatch on the Willow, BK, and BR until late in the day. If it is cold and cloudy you could see them as early as two in the afternoon. They are currently releasing 600cfs into the UEB and that makes the water cold enough for afternoon olives all the way down to junction pool. A word of caution, however, that amount of water requires some caution wading the UEB and with the addition of the BK water at jaws, the EB also needs to be waded with care.