With the promise of a pleasant drive along the river and a dinner out, my wife joined me on a Sunday trip to the camp. She made short work of the lawn mowing while I finished up a stump removal project that I started back when it was 90 in the shade. The back porch, where I had vacuumed up over 100 Pumpkin (aka October) caddis a little over a week ago was again littered with them. I've never seen...

The rivers are coming down SLOWLY.  The Beaverkill, Upper East Branch (above Jaws), the East Branch and the Big River are all still too high to wade.  NYC has yet to begin cutting back the release from Pepacton.

The West Branch looks to be the first stream that will be available for wade fishermen. NYC has stepped down the release by about 200 CFS each of the last two days. At it's present level...