West Branch Delaware county HELP!
If you are fishing Roscoe to Hancock, there is a lot of access water on the Big Beaverkill going to Delaware. Any big pool along there is good for night fishing. I would fish Long Eddy area on Delawar |
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What sizes do you tie to
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Its always amazed me the size of trout that takes the two extremes of hook/bait sizes. BlakeJD mentioned it though, |
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Fishing trip tmrw - flies
Hope the trip proves fruitful. I'm going out with a local member here in Delaware, Eugward. Ah, who am I kidding. He's me brother-in-law. Just pond hopping for pans and bass or whatever wi |
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Howdy all, from Delaware
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This is my first serious attempt at tying. I call it the Delaware Albert. Has Einstein's hair. Well, sounds more traditional than 'The Delaware Do |
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Montauk Rain Bait
look good. might have to try them for this year. Just trying to have a lot of different types to see what works here in lower Delaware. |
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Here are the Clues
Hey Folks, my son and I got our butts handed to us today by some wild browns. We were on a Tailwater in southern VA, the water was quite chilly but the sun was out and there were surface feeders. The |
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Midge Patterns??
How large do you guys tie your midges. Normally, when I think of midges I think of size 20 and smaller. I guess I was spoiled on the Delaware, the Mayflies were so thick I never had to consider midges |
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fly fishing for Asian Carp?
[quote name='heavynets' timestamp='1329266826' post='494454']"There's a huge difference between an invasive species and a transplanted species. "
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Size
Another situation happened a couple weeks ago on a local stream. There were Olives coming off and a guy I met on the river asked me what size and I replied 4-5mm and he just looked at me and said what |
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Hi Folks
Hi Folks, I thought it might be fun to let you folks know a little about my world.
I grew up in Central NY where I fished local streams every chance I had. I took my first tying class in 1978. Being |
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Going to PA
JS,
thats what back cast are made for. Had a guy drift down on me with his out board and within 3 feet put in gear to go back up the delaware. I back cast a size 5/0 striper fly into his shoulder. goo |
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Flamingo, fly & spin, 16 November
It's been a few weeks now since I've had fly anglers aboard, finally a day of fly fishing in this report, y'all are welcome to ignore the spinning part....
Another week with only two book |
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New Personal Best
I've had paddlefish caviar. It's not bad but certainly not beluga. There is sturgeon in the Delaware river too. I've seen pics locally but never targeted or got one myself. I've heard |
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RBF: Dan Craft GXT 903-4
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Meet & Great..Fly Fishing Event?
Please dont tempt me with this
I grew up fishing the Esoupus in Big Indian NY. First Trout OTF was over the mountain in the headwaters of the East Branch of the Delaware and stomped the headwaters |
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Shad Flies
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like you, I also have good results with red and yellow. Shad arent feeding in the rivers, so the goal is a reactio |
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Is this a blue gill?
I remember reading about someone pulling a Piranha out of the Delaware a couple of years ago. The fish wouldn't have survived long, but people need to stop throwing there Aquarium fish into local |
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salmon habitat
In the late 19th Century Atlantic Salmon were stocked in the Delaware River. My understanding is that the fish returned to spawn back in 1895. No doubt they were fished into extinction before the 20th |
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New from PA
welcome from another pa'er.. where on the delaware. i grew up on it.. |
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Pheasant Tail Swap
Hpoefully that will be OK with the swap host? Post back and let me know!Dont mind at all....and Thanks....just wish you had said something 24 hours ago and I would have sent 10 too....Gregfred.... |
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new here
QUOTE (Esoxfeind @ Jan 26 2011, 12:07 PM) hello iam from S.E. Minnesota. i have been fly fishing for 5 years. my main target has been trout.but with the riseing gas price and a quality northe |
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Hello from a New Member
[font="Arial Black"][/font][color="#000000"][/color]Hello from the West Branch of the Delaware River in the Beautiful Western Catskills of New York.I have been tying for about 25 y |
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Cooperstown, NY
I don't know how far you are willing to drive. The Susquahanna is great for bass. If you go south to Delaware county you have access to both branches of the delaware. At the Delaware/Sullivan b |
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Spin vs. fly tackle
QUOTE (JSzymczyk @ Jul 8 2010, 09:15 PM) well, one of the good things about Pennsylvania (once your brain and soul become numb to the tyrannical state government and archaic stupid laws) is t |
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Hello from new york
My Name is Steven, im new to fly fishing just started about 4 months ago. and just started tying about a couple weeks ago.been a avid fisherman for years and meet a guy that was a avid fly fhisherman |
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Smallies
The good 'ol Delaware! Paul I'm wouldn't miss throwin' that fly for anything!! |
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Hellgrammite Questions
Once you are familiar with the hellgrammite, you will probably agree that they are appropriately named as "the-bug-from-hell". However, Smallmouth Bass love these ferocious appearing bugs an |
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Foam Gurglers
Bring some of them up here to the delaware, Topwater in the summer are great!!!! |
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Hendrickson nymph
If your fishing the delaware you better tie them darker than thatQUOTE (NJFlyMAn @ Apr 8 2010, 09:57 PM) QUOTE (smallieFanatic @ Apr 8 2010, 09:53 PM) This one looks pretty good: htt |
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Easter Peeps Flies
We used to fish the crieks off of the Delaware River for catfish using stale peeps. They were the goto bait!!! |
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New Fly number 10
Delaware, Muskie...and some other ones, yea the stockies take anything |
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Looking for some American knowledge
You're assuming that we'd want it. Every notice the toll bridges are always to go into NYC or into PA at the Delaware Water Gap? That's because no one would actually pay good money to go t |
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New to Tying
Given that you are in Wind Gap, I would focus on flies for the smallies. You have a nice stretch of the Delaware up that way. My kayak fishing club has been hitting that section for the past three y |
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Charlies Angel pattern
QUOTE (DesertFly @ Jan 26 2010, 06:53 PM) Does anyone know the pattern for Charlie Nardi's fly (Charlies Angel)? Please post if you do and if you have a picture could you please post it. |
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Rick in Delaware
Hi everyone I'm Rick in Delaware. I took a rod building class a couple of years ago, then I took another, then another. After the 3rd class I asked the instructor (and fly shop owner) to just get me |
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Hi from southern de
Hi name is eddy I live in southern delaware. I am mainly a warmwater fisherman, but will go trout fishing alot. I have been fly fishing for about 2 1/2 years. Been fly tying for about 2 years now. |
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Flying Ant -- For FlySlinger
To follow up on Flyslinger's thread below, here's an ant pattern I've used for several years now. Floats well, is visible, and has caught some really nice fish on the Delaware system in t |
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Hendrickson and Red Quill -- CDC Stacker
Bob -- I live in NYC and fish the surrounding waters by boat and shore (including the Jersey Coast), and also up on Cape quite a bit. I too have done the Keys, plus Belize, Bahamas, Mexico, South Ame |
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Jack Gartside Memorial Swap
These Pheasant Hoppers have been a real challenge for me. dont worry I will have them done on time, but my flybox is going to have some hoppers with goofy looking heads. I took this fly to improve m |
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does anyone else sling mice in colorado?
QUOTE (agn54 @ Oct 30 2009, 11:12 PM) This may be a stupid question, but I have always wondered why it is common to see mouse patterns and mouse lures. I can see how they all look like ' |
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Keel hooks
i remember i switched from a shad fly to a ell fly imotation one day on the delaware blow easton pa,others at the spot were z,ing out till i started catching BIG suckers. if you wanted to see the dead |
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Muskie
looks like maribou, did you tie it on mono, wire, or lead core line ???[attachment=22770:12_18_09_shop_024.jpg]Delaware sucker 15" long |
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Of Powerplants Tailwaters and Trout
From The Flyline
NYC getting into the “Power Play” on the Delaware Tailwaters with regard to whom? Certainly not the trout.
View the full article |
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Need immediate help,
No salmon in the Delaware. The delaware is interestesting as it has different species throughout its entire length. Everything from the tailwater trout up in the East and west branches to everything |
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Swimming Squid
Love the tie! Could you send the pattern? I plan to go for sea trout this fall when they make a run. This is the first time I went for sea runs in Delaware but, that fly seems like the ticket. I |
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Cockroaches
Great tie and display - made me wanna puke! I have thought about a roach tie but never thought it would do anything. Not many roaches here in Delaware - you'll find them in very dirty homes bu |
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I Really Hate Getting Laughed At…
Wrobin and I floated 6 miles of the Delaware on Wednesday and all we did was get laughed at. I had 2 refusals all day…stupid filthy sulphurs…We Hates Them! HATES THEM we do…
I took t |
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Returning to the art.
QUOTE (D.Waterflogger @ Jul 27 2009, 11:22 AM) Welcome to the Forum Phil.I understand how it feels to need glasses for tying. I'll turn 70 my next B/D and have needed them since I turned |
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One With the Doe
Thought I'd share this. I took these up in the Delaware Water Gap a couple of months ago when I took the Scouts fishing.[attachment=20901:IMG_0067.jpg][attachment=20899:IMG_0068.jpg][attachment=20 |
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Terrible Tandem Rig Swap
Stop sweating it Vette. Your flies arrived a day before the deadline. Your are now known as Super Vette Man!!And how does jeff put it. slam slam bam slurp or some such thing. But I had th |
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The Stimulator
Hey man you tie some good flys! I tyied up some 16&18's of the "indestructable" on mustad scuds, fished offcolor water Sun. am. with em' got some bangs from the croud no so |
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Take Me To the River
Gear was gathered. The cooler was filled. The grill is on top of my car. In a few hours I should be working my way downstream on the West Branch of the Delaware, plundering and pillaging with my |
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MAINE FISHING - HELP
Are you familiar with Sebec? Are all streams in the Sebec area good? Are the streams you fish large or small? I lived most of my life in the Catskills of NY, fishing the Delaware (large), Big Bea |
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Yet another sonefly
Hello Paul, the Blackfly I referred to may be a bug you heard of; "Mansonella Ozzard". What I found is what "Wikipedia Enclyclipedia" offered. These bugs[if they are the same as |
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I'm telling my mama
Cool catch. There was a gator a few yeas ago in NY. It was released into the Delaware by someone who didn't want it anymore because it was too big. Approx 3-4 feet. A fly fisherman noticed it |
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clouser swap
Flies have been sent and should be there in a day or so. It's not like PA is across the Delaware or anything Of course we are talking about the USPS second only to the Canada Postal system when i |
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