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12May07
- Guide
Greg Boyd and I drifted the
Lehigh River approximately 6 miles from
Bowmanstown to Walnutport. I landed 4
trout (3 rainbows. 1 brookie) and 2
smallmouths. The trout ranged up to 12
inches, the bass up to 9 inches. I
unfortunately missed roughly 10 more
trout. Of those, 1 rainbow estimated
to 18 inches and 2 brown trout in the 3 - 5
pound class of which the last brown
straightened my size 10 hook. I began
fishing large size 4 heavily weighted olive
woolly buggers but finished using a size 10
olive wooly bugger with a trailing emerging
caddis. After several fish were seen
chasing the woolly bugger but not taking,
the emerging caddis was added. The
addition of the caddis was the ticket and
increased catch rates. Brachycentridae
caddis were emerging in low to moderate
levels and had slate grey wings over a green
abdomen. Caddis emergers used alone
were less successful than the woolly
bugger/caddis combination. My
explanation on this is the trout were drawn
to the movement of the large bugger.
When they passed on the bugger they saw the
emerger and were more confident in taking
this fly.
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Lehigh
River brook trout
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11May07
- I took advantage of Friday's good weather
and headed to Lake Nockamixon for a few
hours. The water was slightly
off-color and a little lower than what I had
seen on the 5th. No one was catching
including the handful of minnow
fishermen. I saw several carp massing
together as well as rolling on the
surface. I believe water temperatures
have finally risen over the past weeks to
the point where carp are beginning to
spawn. If you spend a few minutes
surfing the net, you'll find that carp spawn
between 22-28 degrees Celsius depending on
species, length of daylight, dissolved
oxygen, etc. If you check the USGS
river temperature site for the Delaware
below Tohickon Creek (which
enters/exists Lake Nockamixon) you'll find
it's just started hitting 22 degrees
Celsius. Lake Nockmixon is warmer than
this so I'd expect the Delaware River spawn
to occur anytime within the next two
weeks. This will be 3-5 weeks behind
last year. Carp flies that work well
during this time are crayfish and large
nymph patterns.
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05May07
- I fished Lake Nockamixon for approximately
four hours from late morning to early
afternoon. Water level was normal and
clarity was ok. I lost an estimated 5
pound pickerel after it broke my 12 pound
tippet. The fish took a 6" pink
and white deceiver. I landed a 3 to 5
pound swiper (hybrid bass) on a 3"
bunny fly and a 5 to 8 pound walleye on a
Hellgramaniac. I also lost another
fish in the 3 to 5 pound class, probable a
swiper. All fish were released.
Bait ranged from 1 to 6 inches.
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Lake
Nockamixon Walleye
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04May07
- I fished the Delaware River and a feeder
stream in the afternoon and came up with
only 1 hit. I saw 3 carp and a couple
of shad braking the water. Water level
is back to normal and clarity was ok.
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