It looks like a good week ahead

At least foe access to the river. PPL has posted this coming week's schedule. Generation isn't scheduled to start until noon every day. that will allow for fishing right up to about 2 o'clock. Why didn't they do that when I was on vacation 2 weeks ago. I'm gonna fish on Sunday. What hatches , if any, are on right now? I should know but I'm swamped.

This has been another year of big rains. It's been that way for nearly the last 10 years. How has it affected your fishing?

PPL Updates Schedule - In Our Favor!

I just checked the schedule for power runs and noticed that PPL has decided not to run power on Sunday. I'll see you there.

Delaware River Water Trail Map

Here's a Delaware River Boater's map. A nice job. You'll need Acrobat Reader.

In the summer when the trout are sleepy and PPL is running full bore a canoe trip on the Delaware can be a fantastic experience. Bald Eagles. Smallies. Trout!

Did I mention the smallies.

Do it on a weekday.

Possible Conservation areas for Lackawaxen River and Middle Creek

Here' map that show possible conservation areas for the Lackawaxen River and Middle Creek. Its a pdf file that you can download. You'll need Acrobat Reader. The credit is on the pdf.

Oil Leak on the Banks of the Lackawaxen

Heres a story in the Pike County Press by Pat Camuso detailing a hydraulic fluid spill by Penn Dot at Mollies Pool. A well written piece.

New Hosting Site for LackawaxenRiver.com/The Tow Path

Good news. Less down time faster response. And Wind Powered.

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.