Catching up

Been a while since my last post.  I've sat down several times to do this, post to the blog, but always seem to get side tracked.  A lot have happened in the last 6 weeks, spring run off sent the Salmon River to almost 9000cfs and with in a week the power company had it down to under 500cfs, the steelhead fishing came to a quiet end.

 I had a chance to fish the Delaware River towards the end of April with good friends and fellow guides Jeff Church (he did the rowing) and Gary Edwards, the fishing was mediocer but put three veteran fishing guides together for a day in a drift boat and the day was far from a bust.

Gary with a 18" Delaware brown trout.  These wild fish are nice.

Along the way of life, I managed to pick up a deer tick and  along with it I got Lyme disease.  Been three weeks since being infected and have one more week to go on the meds, sure hope this ends the sickness.  I have never been sick with a 'disease' before and hope not to be in the future.  Aside from feeling like I had the flu for a few days initially and just generally crappy, I have  basically been feeling wiped out, no energy.

Trout fishing locally has been good.  The Fish Creek in the Camden area is fly fishing well.  At this point there are some Green Drakes hatching as well as sulphurs (just starting) and your garden variety of caddis and midge hatches.  The most productive flies recently have been parachute Adams #14-16, BWO sparkle duns #16-18 and thorax Sulphurs #18, in that order.  Parachute Hendricksons were the only fly you needed for a couple weeks but it is moving to the back of the fly box now.  Should be seeing some big Isos soon.


Our neighbors from the north working to protect the fantastic
Great Lakes fishery.   

This past week has seen alot of activity by by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans and the US Army Corps of Engineers have been busy in their efforts to control sea lamprey in the Great Lakes.  Locally, the fresh water streams and tributaries that feed Lake Ontario were treated with lampricide.  I took a few minutes to chat with the folks from the Canadian F&O who were taking care of the areas here to the east of Lake Ontario.

I am in the process of fixing a few chips in the gelcoat of my drift boat.  Never did it before and am some what tentative about the whole process.  Have one side done and so far so good.  I can wait to get the other chine done so I can buff the boat out.  She'll be ready for the Snake River come July and August, I can't wait.  My wife and I will be on the way west in just a few short weeks.  That trip every summer never gets tiring, so much to fish and so little time.

Hope your summer is a good one and you get to your favorite fishing stream or lake.

Tight lines.