It'll Take More Than Three Shirts to Keep you Warm Tomorrow!

 Left the Lordville Estate at 1:30 today, drove up the PA side of the river. There were four boats in sight below the Lordville bridge and over a dozen between Lordville and Buckingham. Both the Buckingham and Shehawken launch sites were packed with cars and trailers. The One Bug Tournament is this weekend. I don't know where the boats are floating but the river is sure to be crowded. 

Had a place in mind to fish but took the time to look for bugs on the BR, WB, EB and the BK. In the hour and a half before I started fishing I saw just caddis on the water. The only fish I saw rising were at the 97 bridge in Hancock where three fishermen were wading out to fish them.

The fishing - Spent from 2:30 until 4:00 casting at rising fish. There were but a few mayflies, (quill Gordons ??), and a mix of hatching apple caddis and egg laying caddis. Found a bank with five sippers all of whom ate my offerings, (landed four). When I got to the side of the river that the boats travel, there were rising fish, but I never got so much as a refusal from any of them. By about 3:45 both the bugs and fish seemed to have had enough and so did I.

There will probably be a caddis spinner fall that gets fish up tonight, but unless I find room to fish, I'll  give it a pass. Tomorrow's weather forecast looks grim. High of 40 with rain all day. I'm heading home to Lafayette where at 1,600 feet, we may well get snow, perhaps lots of it. With both reservoirs spilling, the predicted rain, (up to an inch), might well end the wade fishing for a while.