I'm Back

After a couple of years back luck, lyme disease, broken legs and other maladies I'm back in wading form. And unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it I'm free to fish every day having had my job eliminated recently. Yesterday I took a drive along the tow path. The road is in horrible condition. Parking at the dollar hole has been blocked with access to the water there blocked by private property signs. But no sign saying no fishing. How convenient the property owner can rent his cottage as being on a well stocked pool but the fish stockers might still stock the pool. A very fine pool by the way. We pay they fish. What a good deal.

The water is real low. Almost June low. The long term weather for opening weekend is for showers and average temp in the 50s. There are a lots of caddis and stones in the air. There was a major multiple hatches on the Delaware the other day. BWOs, Quill Gordons, Big Caddis (cinnamon, black and green). The water there is even lower than the Lackawaxen. Opening day may be relatively easy wading and warm water. - more later -

Weird Fish

I like to complain. It's like scratching an itch. I doesn't solve anything but it makes me feel better. But not this time.

I haven't had a lot of time to fly fish the Lackawaxen River this spring. Just a few short outings. I've been lucky and have caught fish every outing. I caught a beautiful Brook Trout and a beautiful Brown trout. I also caught 4 or 5 Rainbows. One was a nice fish. The others. Well, the others were from a horror movie.
One fish expired when I netted it. Its just started bleeding and died. On inspection it was nearly fin-less. No dorsal fin and only one pec fin. Okay he got picked on in school. It happens right? I've caught 3 other deformed rainbows without fins or with sores. Okay the sore were probably from having been caught before or rooting for nymphs. One had no pec fins and no dorsal fin. Un fortunately I don't have any photos. From now on I'm going to kill any weird fish I catch so I can have documented evidence.

This is absurd. The state has decided that fisherman and hunters are ghouls. Bureaucratic cynicism has produced a uncaring and cruel system that raises and distributes the damaged fish that I have caught. I would like to hear from anybody else that has caught similar low grade trout this year.

Chemical refinery proposed for banks of the Lackawaxen

Here's a news story from the Wayne independent.

Potential Investors Look At Ethanol Site
Wayne Independent - Honesdale,PA,USA
The proposed property is located behind Kost Tire and Muffler on Route 6, east of Honesdale, on the opposite side of the Lackawaxen River.

Ethanol. Isn't that from corn, or beets or cane. What the biggest Wayne county crop. Hay? Or Bull crap?