More Sewage for the Lackawaxen

Three Wayne County municipalities are preparing to turn their sewer system assets over to the fledgling Central Wayne Regional Authority...

Another Damned Power Line ?

Here's a story from Honesdale's The Weekly Almanac, Jan 31. It briefly lays out a proposal by PPL's building a new 500,000-volt electricity transmission line stretching from the Susquehanna River east to the Delaware River. 

Sorry to say... this isn't the same power lines story that has been around for the last year or so.

It's that time of year again

Taking inventory of flies. Studying journals from 10 years ago. Tagging pages in the 2008 editions of the multitude of Fly Fishing catalogs. Planning trips to pools yet unknown. Pools packed with wild Rainbows, enormous Steelhead and tasty little Brookies.
It's the same every year. Exuberant expectations most surely followed by the realities of yard and field work, overtime, nasty spring colds, 100 year floods, car inspections and Turkeys.
The most lovely month of May is oh so short. Only 4 weekends. Only 2 weeks of PPL time out.
But ya gotta dream. All alone in Millers Pool. Sun setting over Mollys. That early morning hatch of paper grey caddis in the Swimming Hole. What are those fish rising for.

Lackawaxen River Dry Fly Print

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Fewer Eagles, Opening Day Changes, Green waters

Last week I talked with Charlie Bright at his shop at Rt 590 on the Tow Path. He said there were fewer Eagles this past winter. Comfirming what I had seen. Only a few birds early in the winter.
One thing that Charlie was concerned with was the new staggered season opening. I think only time will tell on both eagles and opening days.
I am concerned with the color of the rivers. Both the Lackawaxen and the Deleaware are greener than past years. The Lackawaxen has quite a bit of green mossy crap around the edges. This has been growing every year since the first flooding year a few years ago. There are far fewer early bugs around. Usually there's alot of small black and brownish stones around. I've seen only a few and they are real small. Probably normal.

Winter seems to have arrived

Maybe it's a bit late but it's here. Full Blast. I write this from the comfort of my New York City studio. The furnace in Beach Lake , that blew up back in January, still has not been repaired. Oh well the wading would be tough now anyway. As if I'd be wading. It'll be prime Eagle watching for the next month. You can find them from Molly's down to Barryville on the delaware and all the way north to Hancock. There's a pretty good resident population but this time of year there's a lot of wintering birds. You see a lot of immature birds. There heads and tails haven't turned white. Look for them just downstream from openings in the ice-cover opens where they get a look at any bait-fish washed out of the lake. If you see Gulls and you'll likely also see an Eagle.