I've Got Better Things To Do!

Have spent yesterday afternoon and today at the Lordville Estate, fished a couple of hours each night, and nothing's changed my opinion on the current fishing conditions. Fished the EB for about 45 minutes, it was bugless. Had a nice rainbow eat a caddis with a dull hook, one jump and gone.

 Drove over to the WB, hoping to find both olives and rising fish, found neither. Fished from five until 6:15, saw two rises not to my fly, and almost no olives. Have never caught a fish on the October caddis that I continue to carry in my caddis box. Tonight a fish came up and ate it. He came unstuck, keeping my record of futility fishing the October caddis intact. Got a refusal and a take on olives and a take on a floating iso nymph. Landed the 10 inch brown that ate the olive. 

The radar makes it look like we will get precious little rain from the front pushing through tonight. The power plant at Wallenpaupack is not operating. They reached the drawdown level for October 1st, in September and in October they are supposed to let the reservoir rise two feet. As a result there is currently little hope for the flows from Cannonsville to be reduced without substantial rain. Perhaps Hackelhouse is right, saying it's time to close the page on the 2025 trout season and go sit in a tree stand.

 Jean and I enjoyed the trip up to the Adirondacks immensely and I didn't even take any fishing gear. We are coming down this weekend to take in the fall colors and tackle a couple projects that require four hands. After that, things will depend on conditions both on the water and in the woods. I don't hunt in 80 degree weather and I don't want to fish the WB when it is gushing mud, or the EB, BK, and Willow when they are as low as they now are. October is the month that I drive Jean crazy as neither of us know where I'll be from one day to the next. When I'm down here, I'll do my best to keep you up to date.