This was the first fishing trip without Spence by my side. She held down the fort this weekend with the six month old twins while I took a fishing trip with a couple buddies....I know, I'm a lucky dude.
Needless to say we were pretty amped up. Dave and I left early in the morning...say round 4 am to get to the Delaware in time for the afternoon hatch. We picked up Tom in Bellefonte around lunch and rolled on. While we were driving, we happened to notice an entire hillside of ramps (aka wild leeks.) We used some mountain stone to work enough out of the ground for our burgers over the next few days....But I would be back for more...
We got to the Delaware River Club and were greeted with 20+ MPH brutal winds forcing us to at times to have to paddle crew style backwards just to go downstream from Balls Eddy down to Shehawken. The wind forced most of the fishing to be streamers, which would have been fine if the streamer bite would have been on, but it certainly wasn't.
We did manage to get into about 10 fish into the boat on various nymphs, but none very big. Not a banner day but a decent start.
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| First fish to the boat. A nice strong Delaware River rainbow. |
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| Back at the DRC camp. Figuring out the next day's float over an IPA. |
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