Spent a few hours knocking around in the Gorge with the kids this afternoon. I managed two browns, one on a Thomas spinner and another on a saltie. Very low water as has been noted. Not a bad thing for me and the kids they could play w/o getting swept away and I didn't have to don my waders. There was a hatch of some magnitude happening. They were some sort of light brownish bug with a wingspan of about .5 inch. They would come off the water and drop back down on it re

I got a call from a good friend of mine saying he was heading up the Delaware to fish the Hendrickson hatch. Now if you are a fly fisherman you know that the Hendricksons are one of the first may flies to take flight. This year being unusually warm the flies started hatching about a month ahead of time.  As we sat and watched the river we didn't notice a single fish rising so we talked it over and decided that we would go back to the car and get ready and hopefull

4/15....jigged up one herring all day. chunked, no takers.

4/16...jigged up a bunch of herring, headed down, the wind picked up and kept spinning the boat around. we set up for a drift and wham. broke the ice for the year. heading back out in the morning.



4/17.....what a good morning, jigged up herring like nothing. managed 4 in the boat with about 7 missed runs and a

This is the last of the pics from my 3 night, 2 day and 2 half day camping trip to the Pine Creek Gorge. The Big Pine was a raging torrent when I drove in you can see the high water line in one of these pics and how the water looked 4 days later. It was Tuesday the 24th and I had to get packed for the trip home. I got up early and went to a spot below the village of Slate Run and just within the DLHAO area. I figured woud give me the best chance of hooking up in the still h

After my morning at Stoney Fork and the stocked rainbows I decided to down size my waters and my quarry and go for a few brookies up in the headwaters of Cedar Run. One of the questions I have about my visit to Kettle Creek is where were the brook trout? As I stated I'm no slouch at spotting a fish in a crick. lol I was not walking cedar run more that 100 yards before I spotted one dart from a small pool to hide underneath an aging undercut hemlock. There was no doubt

Here is a slide show from the side trip I took to Kettle Creek last weekend. I'll add some commentary later today.

So , I started out way up the creek in the head waters. This creek has about 8 decent sized mountain cricks that come together so that even at this point it is a fair sized creek. All the rain we had made for a full stream, lots of run off still coming down the mountainsides. I didn't get any trout in this upper section which is supposed to