Much needed rain does little to raise the rivers

We are in the midst of an extended low water event. It started last summer and has continued until now. Some communities in NEPA are having rainfall defects of up to 6" for the year. The Lackawaxen is down to August levels. The tubes have been running during the daytimes keeping the stream cool. The benefit of a tailwater fishery. Even the past few days of extreme heat having affected to water temps drastically.

As of today 5/28 PPL has not posted next weeks generation schedule. I'm hoping it will be similar to the past couple of weeks. Ending the power run at 5pm give you plenty of time to fish this time of year all the way down to Millers maybe but certainly to the pool at Blooming Grove Creek.

My last several trips to the Lackawaxen have shown little evidence of the popularity the the river has had in years past. At the most only a handful of cars at the usual spots all the way from Molly's down to Zane Grey. In the mid 90's there would have been a car or two at every pool. I makes for easy fishing opportunities but few fellow fisherman to share lies with.

PPL is being very generous. Thank you PPL.

This past week and next there are good fishing opportunities for the Lackawaxen Throught he weekend we have no power and during the week we can fish til 9 on the lower river and 7:30 on the upper. In the evening we can get in the stream by 6:30. Pray for hatches which have been sparse this year at least while I've been around. That goes for the Beaverkill and the main stem. Winter was harsh and ice was thick.

On Friday May 22 we did a drift down the Delaware with SweetWater Guide service. Make Padua. The wind was bad the fishing was ok not great but good and a lot of fun. The fast water produced trout and the medium water produced smallies. At the last riffle we caught a nice shad. I looked fresh bright and shinny.

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PPL playing games on their web site?

On Thursday noon ppl has schedule up to Sunday. Then listings for the four upcoming Friday's noting boating releases. I think it's still illegal to start an finish a boat trip in Lackawaxen but I may be wrong. And the listing may change. The weird thing is that we are scheduled for a stocking on Tuesday the 12th. The worm guys are generally gone by then and we can fish this batch while there are great hatches.. At least we hope.

I haven't been a ble to find the time to fish much with the winter holding on so long I have to get a lot done in a short time. Hopefully this evening. I have fished for shad with some luck but the Delaware is really low and the shad are running a bit slow now.

On Monday I scheduled to float the Delaware. Bad weather is predicted. I don't mind rain but wind and lightning are no fun. We will see.

No power generation scheduled this week.

Wow no pawer generation all week. could be good or bad. With not rain scheduled the water can get very warm and stress the fish. But it does give us all day opportunity to fish. Yeah.

I fished last week, Wednesday and Thursday, at odd hours with no luck. A couple of misses on marabou bead heads. There were more than million of caddis Thursday. Amazing.  After I got broken down and packed up the caddis disappeared and wind died just like that. In some of the small eddies that haven't held fish in the past all of a sudden there was a lot of splashy surface feeding. The riffs and pool heads had not activity. Odd. Blooming Grove pool had the only other fisherman that I saw. Again lots of still water rises. Other at the head of the pool. Down at Brights pool the were a few working out in the very middle. This weekend things should get real strong the dark mayflies should be big. I'll be heading over this evening.

The shad are in at Narrowsburg and Zane Gray. If you've never fished for shad do it. They are a blast.

I'm adding to this post. Last weekendd the PPL page showed not scheduled generation. it seems there was!

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