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30Apr06 - I
fished a Delaware River trib. from 11:00 -
3:00. The water continues to drop and become
more clear. The carp spawn is nearly
finished. A pod of 30 or so shad were
preparing to spawn. No flies could entice
them. I caught 4 smallmouth, two were around
14". I also caught 1 brown trout, 2
bluegills and 1 rockbass. Successful flies
included
Dougherty's Paddler, Clouser
Crayfish and an olive woolly bugger.
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28Apr06 - I
repeated what I had done last Friday and
fished the Delaware River and a trib. Fish
were everywhere but none to catch (OK 1
lonely 6" smallmouth bass). Carp are still
available in the tribs but are spread
throughout the creeks due to the recent
rains. Additionally, they appeared fewer in
numbers. Several large > 15" smallmouths
were spotted but no takers. The real story
were the shad. I probably saw at least a 100
shad moving up. The largest pod numbered
about 15 in size. The fish looked a little
beat-up with nose and fin abrasions. All
sizes and colors of flies were used with
just one hit on a small chartreuse dumbbell
fly similar to the
Parachute Salmon fly.
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27Apr06 - The
Susquehanna River flats have been producing
stripers for the past few weeks. Smaller
fish were available first, but as you can
see from the picture below that's changed. Thanks for the report Steve. Several fish
were caught, all using
Wally's Wowzer.
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Steve Walthius
with a Susquehanna River flats striper.
Fly: Wally's
Wowzer
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to enlarge
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21Apr06 - I
fished the Delaware River and one of it's
tributaries between 5:00 and 8:30 PM. The
weather was cool and the wind was blowing
upstream with gusto. I rotated flies hoping
to pick up a striper, walleye or some shad
on the main branch, but nothing. Even the
shad fishermen fishing from boats were
striking-out. I decided to target the
spawning carp moving into the tributaries. A
small tan Clouser crayfish was used to hook
the estimated 10 pound carp below. After a
nice fight and a couple of pictures I
released it unharmed to do it's thing.
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A Delaware
tributary estimated 10 pound carp.
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15Apr06 - I
fished Lake Nockamixon (PA) in the afternoon
and the Delaware River in the evening. The
weather was beautiful and the water clear. I
was targeting larger fish at both places and
managed to get skunked at both. A few small
bass were visible at Lake Nockamixon. A
tremendous midge hatch occurred at sundown
on the Delaware but subsided after about 30
minutes. Some caddis were emerging as well. Carp and or suckers to 5+ pounds were
jumping out of the water.
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02Apr06 - Before
the report some good news. My girlfriend
Nancy and I got engaged by the banks of the
Little Lehigh creek. Sunday was a beautiful
day for both proposing and for fishing. After a happy yes and a little lunch we both
went on to catch trout. The weather was warm
with a slight breeze and the water was
clear. Nancy caught two rainbows, one on a
size 16 black deer hair beetle and the other
on a size 18 grey caddis. I caught two
palominos on a size 10 olive bead head
woolly bugger and had several hits on other
small dries. There was a rumor that small BWO were emerging late morning but by
afternoon the hatch subsided. Hatches were
few in the afternoon but included an
occasional size 14 stonefly, a few more
tan/brown size 18 caddis and even more
midges. Fishing pressure was moderate to
heavy.
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