Summer continues with great fishing

Most days have been pleasant weather with mixed bags of smallmouth, walleye, and the occasional Striper finding its way to the net. Spin and fly have both been very productive.

Here are some photos of our recent outings.

Bill with a 29” Striper. Biggest of the year so far.

Ladonna with a couple of hard fighting smallmouth on the fly rod.

Or with a nice smallmouth and a 22” walleye on the fly.

The blue heron stalks the egret.

Picture of Lily

The giant snails are here.

Elijah had a variety of fish.

An 8” brown trout was found inside this walleyes belly.

Bill with a nice Smallmouth.

Bill with a chain pickerel.

Matty with a 23” Striper.

Evan with a schoolie Striper.

Guide Mike P, with a quality smallmouth.

July flew by!

Consistent bass conditions have been holding. We had a few large rain events on the beaverkill drainage and some other spots with significant short lived flooding.

Trout have been steadily feeding on sulphur dry flies on the west branch, but the bass have been taking up most of our time these days. A few walleye finding the net as well.

Enjoying the Summer daze

Summer has been full of nice weather with high quantity days and a few quality fish here and there.

These hard fighting smallmouth are sure to put a bend in your rod.

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Smallmouth on the fly rods

These guys hit em hard all day with streamers and poppers on their fly rods.

Beautiful days on the river.

WallEYE

Brandon with the double.

Hooked. Thank fully not my finger.

Immature eagles

Green Heron

Keeping the rods bent as summer rolls in.

We have had some very quality smallmouth bass fishing lately. And we are getting to the upper west branch once in a while to target fish on dry flies.

Here are photos of our successful anglers.

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Jake with a nice smallie!

Max with an 18” smallmouth. Biggest of the year so far.

Roger with his birthday 20” brown on a dry fly.

Keeping the rods bent as summer rolls in.

We have had some very quality smallmouth bass fishing lately. And we are getting to the upper west branch once in a while to target fish on dry flies.

Here are photos of our successful anglers.

Give us a shout to get on the water! 570-647-7030

Jake with a nice smallie!

Max with an 18” smallmouth. Biggest of the year so far.

Roger with his birthday 20” brown on a dry fly.

We’ve been having some really nice days out there.

A few firsts this week. First trips on the Delaware for a few anglers, first dry fly fish and some stripers on light tackle.

Give us a call at 570-647-7030 to get out this summer for bass or dry fly for trout.

Summer is trending.

We’ve been racking up the bass numbers. And enjoying the beauty of nature and our surroundings.

This mink caught one!

This rock bass has the vibrant red eyes.

Bass one day and trout the next.

We had Herb and Deanna out for some smallmouth fishing on Saturday.

Then Monday after some rain Jim and Brian hit the west branch for some trout fishing.

We adapt to the conditions everyday and put you in the best place to catch fish! Call us at 570-647-7030 to get on the water!

The last few days were beautiful.

We had warm temps and active fish.

Picky dry fly fish on the west branch, and some high number days on the lower main. Stripers are here for the summer in certain pools. We fish to them when the conditions are good.

Mark had a good day.

A rare moment of solitude on the West Branch. Shared only with the ducks, and Kieran.

The Novick’s

Scott and Joe are the direct descendants of Harold Novick who once owned the infamous IHOP house on the upper Delaware. If you know, you know. Harold once wrote an outdoor fishing column in the river reporter newspaper. Now I, (Evan) have taken that role alongside another writer Tony Bonavist.

I am writing an outdoor column called “step outside” which prints biweekly for the river reporter newspaper.

Scott and Joe do a day or two on the upper Delaware with me every year. Harold often blesses them with good fishing. This year, good weather and okay fishing.

We had a nice day with smallmouth, walleye, rock bass, and fallfish to the net.

Steve on the Delaware.

A nice morning with Steve, he caught some nice stripers and walleye early. And we chipped away through the hot sun at a few more fish throughout the day. We saw another Loon, and enjoyed our day on the water.

Black vultures abound.

Under water rock that has pot holes from pebbles rattling around inside for ages.

A nice day on the West Branch.

Dry fly targets most of the day. And some nymphing success kept Dom busy all day.

A sunny day with the Gurda’s.

Finally got some nice weather. We took the day to learn some fly fishing tactics. And beat up on walleye and a Striper. We saw a doe teach her fawn how to swim across the river. It was a nice day to be out there!

The last hoorah for spring trout fishing.

Summer temps are here and the water is warming. We will still be able to target trout on the upper reaches of the river. But our favorite main stem areas will now be too warm to target trout for most of the remainder of the summer.

The last few days provided great hatches and awesome dry fly fishing. We did well on nymphs in the mornings and dry flies in the evenings.

A few light spin tackle trips have also been producing great numbers and a variety of species. We had our first Palomino trout or golden rainbow trout in over twenty years.

Give us a call to join us on a summer dry fly float, or a summer time bass fishing float.

Roger and Lynn had a nice morning.

With warming water temperatures the mornings are sometimes a better option. We went spin fishing with light tackle and caught 7 species of fish with few real nice ones.

Our first tiger trout of the year, and another striper in the 9th inning. A great time was had.

First Striper of the year.

8 species made it to the net today. Dan Bias Jr. slammed a shad and landed it in 11 seconds. We also caught rainbows, browns, a brook trout, smallmouth bass, walleye, a sunfish, and a falllfish.

We also saw an adult Loon.

A good day with Steve and Dan.

Another sunny windy day.

We chipped away at them all day. And had a few heart throbs, missing some opportunities at the larger size class fish. But that’s all part of the game. A nice day had by all.

40” of rainbow trout in two fish.

A beautiful night out with Ed. A near full moon and lots of insect life. These fish are “brutes” as Ed referred to them. Each one jumped multiple times in an out of control manor. We kept the line tight and landed two of them. Hooked a few more, but there feisty selves spit the hook on multiple occasions.