Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Spring 2016 report, steelhead, trout and turkeys

A cooperative steelhead, released to play again.
Steelhead fishing has been kind of nice, the weather has been beautiful and the water is up.  As I type this the release is 750 cfs and has been since the 15th.  The gauge at Pineville is reading 927 cfs and has been slowly, steadily dropping.  Drop back fishing is good right now and most spawning fish are disappearing from the spawning areas.  Water temps are not oppressive and the steelhead seem to be comfortable holding in the river for now.  Still a couple weeks left to chase steelhead.



Blue Quill from Mad River
Local trout streams are fishing well.  On the Mad River behind my house the are daily Hendrickson hatches and have been for about a week and a half.  This is a little early for them here in this part of the state but with the early warm up we began to have about 3 weeks ago the bugs are showing up early.  Decent number of Blue Quill showing up too.

Nice state land gobbler
May 1st is the opening day of the NY State spring turkey season. I look forward to this every year and this year is no different.  2 year old turkeys have recruited well give the milder than normal winter  and nice sized flocks are everywhere right now.  We have a lot of public land in this part of NY and the hunting pressure for turkeys on state land is moderate to light in my opinion.  Most of our turkeys from guided hunts come from state land like the one pictured below.

I am offering guided float trips on the Upper Delaware River this year.  I have played on the Delaware for many years and decided to extend my guide season by booking trips on the Delaware. I have my Parks permit now so the entire system is open for me to guide.

If you would like to float the Delaware contact me by phone or email and let's set something up.

Tight lines.