I know it’s been sometime
since my last update. But a lot has been going on over the last couple of
weeks. First of all I spent seven days fishing for Atlantic salmon on the
Matapedia River in Québec Canada. The salmon were running late, but you cannot
catch a fish if your fly is not in the water. After a few days of hard fishing
I did manage to catch a salmon. The Salmon measured 40 inches long and weighed
approximately 30 pounds. Truly a world
class Fish, The fly was a size 2 rusty rat. It was a good time fishing with
good friends on a great river. What can I say about Atlantic Salmon fishing,
other than go do it. The rewords are few
and far between and it come slowly but it is well worth the effort.
Got back from Canada and went
straight to the Spring creek for a couple of days of trout fishing and then
back on the road once again. This time it was off to the west branch of the
Delaware river for a couple of days. This year for fishing on the west branch
has been A little tougher than normal. The big issue is the lack of bugs. There
really has not been any heavy hatch this season. We need the strong hatches to
get the fishing going. For now there is a few bugs on the west branch of the
Delaware River. These are the summer sulfurs, Isonychia, blue wing olives.
There is also A few spinners, in the evening and a few left over spenders can
be found still drifting in the river on the lower end of the West branch in the
morning. When the bugs do hatch it has been from early to mid afternoon. Keep
in mind water temperatures are colder than you would expect. Water flows are
being released from the bottom of the damn, as result water temperatures range
from 42 to 49° depending on the weather that day.
As for Spring brook, there
has been a few leftover sulfurs hatching and some sporadic spinner falls in the
evening. Recently done my best fishing size 12 Black or brown woolly buggers
and size 14 and 12 pink scuds. The supper hatch should be winding down over the
next couple of weeks. From this point the mayfly hatch Will be over tell next
spring. Will be fishing small screamers scuds and micro midge patterns.
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