Delaware River Report / Conditions May 19, 2012

Morning all – sorry for the delay, bike ride this morning took a bit longer than anticipated. As for the fishing,  yesterday was definitely interesting. Depending on where you fished, there were tons of bugs, but the fish were loathe to rise in the bright direct sunlight. In the evening there were tons of targets, the only issue being it was bug soup out there on the water. We had everything from Isos to sulphurs to March Browns, with no rhyme or reason as to river section they were active on. The East and upper Main saw a big hatch of HUGE (think #8) Isos, along with March Browns, Grey Fox, and dortheas at the end. The West had all of the above, but the fish did seem to key in on March Browns as well. We are looking at a sunny, summerish day today, with highs near 80. The flows are still keeping the river cool, so I would expect a similar day to yesterday, with the action picking up once the sun starts dropping down.

Jim Rogers with a nice night-time Brown. Photo by: Mike Rogers

Uh-oh Mike, your son Jim's brown looked much bigger! Photo by: Jim Rogers

Hatches:

Stenonema vicarium – March Browns – #10-2xl

Stenonema fuscum – Grey Fox – #12-2xl

Ephemerella dorthea – Sulphurs – #16

Ephemerella invaria – Large Sulphurs / Light Cahills – #14

Ephemerella cornuta – Light BWO – #14 (sporadic)

Ephemera guttulata – Green Drake – #8-2xl

Baetis species – #18 & #20