July continues with great fishing

Cold water releases have been increased throughout the month of July so far.  These cold temperatures are keeping the trout of our Upper Delaware river active.

7/6/15   Gene had a nice evening of dry fly fishing.  Nice wild Rainbow trout!

7/7/15  Ed holding one of a few 18" Brown trout boated this day.

7/7/15  John caught this rare 20" Tiger trout!  Beautiful Fish!

7/10/15  Dan nails this beauty of a Bow on a big stick bait.

7/10/15  Guide Mike P. Holding a nice 20" Brown trout

7/10/15  Found 2 river Sunfish, and pulled them out of school.

1st week of July

This first week of July has brought rain and high water.  The reservoir's of our East and West branches of the Delaware are both spilling at over capacity.  This high water yields quality subsurface trout fishing on only a few sections of river.  The river is high and muddy and needs to settle down a bit to restore quality summer bass fishing and moderate flows.  The days we have been on the water recently have brought beautiful trout to the net.  Book a trip today!

7/3/15  Matt holding this beautiful 17" West Branch Brown trout!

7/3/15 Matt holding another cookie cutter 17"  West Branch Brown

7/3/15 Guide Evan P. connects with this mean looking 19" Brown trout

Second Half of June, Lotsa Fish!

The second half of June has brought some great fishing!  The releases were increased from the Cannonsville dam, and water is flowing cold through Lordville, NY.  Trout fishing has been on fire.  Early mornings have been great for subsurface fishing, and with the middle afternoon  bug hatches fish are opportune to be taken on the fly.   Schedule your July or August trip today!  Smallmouth Bass fishing in the evenings will be great throughout the summer! As well as weather permitting trout target float trips.  Book today!

Here are photos from our recent successful anglers!

Steve with one of many nice cookie cutter Brown trout!

Ian with a Fat 17" Brown trout in the net!

Ian slams this Wild Rainbow on a gold spinner.

Bill G. with a Nice Smallie!

Rich T. gets himself a nice Delaware river Smallmouth.

Beauty in the net!  Catch. Photograph. Release.

Double Brownie's ! #'s 16 and 17 on this day.

Steve with a nice 18" Brown trout!

Capt. Joey leggio and Guide Evan P. display this 19" Brown trout

June fishing has been great!

6/13/15 A great day for soft plastic smallmouth bass fishing!

6/14/15 Dave L. gets into some decent smallmouth on a nice day!

6/17/15 A first fish for a new Delaware river angler!

6/17/15  Brother and sister finding the smallmouth bass!

6/19/15  Ralph D.  caught this beauty of a 18" brown on an early A.M. float!

6/19/15  Guide Evan P. holding Steve's nice Brownie!

6/19/15  Ralph D. gets this wild Delaware river rainbow trout! Beauty!

6/19/15  Guide Mike P. getting the net!

6/19/15 Guide Mike P. holding Dan B's West branch trout!

6/20/15 Frank A. with his first Delaware River Brown trout!

6/20/15  Frank with a beautiful Wild Rainbow trout!

6/19/15 Bob L. hits this Rainbow on West Branch!

6/20/15 Junction pool Walleye on the Main stem!

6/20/15 Bob L. With a nice Main Stem Brown!

6/20/15 Bob L. with an average size Delaware river smallmouth.

6/20/15 Mark finds this Striped Bass 300 miles from the ocean!

6/21/15 Mark hits this beautiful 17" East branch Rainbow trout!

6/21/15 Beautiful Bow!

6/19/15 Another Striper 300 miles from the ocean!

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End of May brings more great fish!

5/21/15  Ultra Light tackle brings in the big ones! Nice 20" brown John!

5/26/15  John P. maiden voyage on the Delaware! 23" Walleye welcomes him.

5/31/15  Bob N. Second cast 19" Walleye on Surface Lure!

5/26.15  Tony strikes with a nice smallie!

5/26/15  Tony hit this nice 19" Walleye on a deep diving crankbait.

5/26/15  Bob N. with another keeper Walleye!

5/26/15  A grand slam day on the Delaware! A rare catch, 23" chain Pickerel.

5/28/15  Fresh feisty shad are still being caught daily!

Low Clear Water, Lots of Fish!

These past few weeks have remained dry and warm, with a  few cooler nights opening up opportunities for trout fishing.  Many nice Trout, Bass, Shad, and Walleye are being boated daily, as well as many of the other species we have in the Upper Delaware river! Come join us for a float this June! Book a trip today by emailing us at evan@sweetwaterguide.com or mike@sweetwaterguide.com

Here are some fish photos!

This 10lb Common Carp took a Husky Jerk in 10ft of water!

Beautiful Brown trout ready for relelase!

Feisty little Wild Rainbow from the Delaware River.

Still catching a few Shad

Skinny Spring Walleye

May Fishing!

The Month of May has been great fishing, low flows and varied water temperatures, have the fish a little out of whack, but the river temperatures are restoring order, and the fish seem happy and active.  Here are Photos from our past week of fishing!

Fresh 13" Wild Rainbow Trout!

15" Brown Trout

Nice American Shad!

Get the Net!

Little hard fighting Delaware river wild Rainbow trout!

Greg B. with a beautiful upper Delaware wild rainbow about to be released!

Greg B strikes again with a feisty oversized American Shad!

Shad fishing has been great!

The upper Delaware river has been at record high temperatures, and record low flows this May.  The FFMP (Flexible Flow Management Plan) implemented on our upper Delaware River needs to be revised.  With full reservoirs of water, the Delaware river needs some cold water to be released out of our dams.  This cold water will help sustain our trout habitat, and keep our usual spring patterns in order.  However despite these unusual flows and temperatures, Sweetwater Guide Service has still been finding some healthy fish in the Delaware.  The weather is forecasted to get colder and this should help our water temperatures. 

As you will see here, the Shad run is in full swing here on the Upper Delaware, the American Shad is a great fun to fight fish into the boat.  Come join us for a Shad fishing trip anytime in the next 4 weeks!

Reece M. connects with a nice Shad!

Jean Hooks into her first shad ever!  Hard fighting Shad are a blast to catch!

Guide Evan P. finds a nice Shad on the fly rod!

Steve D. with a nice Roe Shad!

Larry G. Nymphed up this beautiful 18" Bow!

Skein's of American Toad Eggs spotted near shore north of Callicoon, NY.

6 A.M. Dry fly fishing, yields some nice Delaware river Brown trout.

The Shad are here!

The past few days have brought warm temperatures, sunny skies, and dropping water levels.  The fishing has remained quite good with water temperatures hovering around 50 degrees through most of the upper Delaware River system.  Multiple trout have been boated every day, as well as Shad on the lower sections of river. Here are some photos from our past few trips!

Matt boats this Monster Brook trout! 

Craig N. the "go pro kid" lands this 18" Brown trout!

Bob D. boats this nice rainbow, Grand slam boated today.

Lauren D. boats her first Shad ever! Nice work Lauren!

The NYC couple boated 7 Shad today, nice work!

Update from the Past few days!

The weather has gotten nice again as of 4/28, the bugs are beginning to hatch,  the trout are in the riffles, the bass in the slack water, the shad are running, and the fish are biting!  Come join us for a float!

4/26/15  Tommy starts of the day with a 19" wild brown!

4/26/15 Bob D. stuck this fat 19" brownie!

4/27/15  Busmans holiday, Evan and Mike on a half day main stem float,  big Brown!

4/27/15  A healthy looking Smallmouth Bass!

4/28/15  Spencer found the first Shad of the season, Nice work buddy!

4/22/15 Float trip

A couple of Big Browns boated today!

Pete L. with a beautiful 21" Brown trout!

John J. holding a 20" Brown moments later!

4/19/15 Float trip

Mike P. Holding a 20" wild Rainbow taken on a Black hair jig, main stem.

Stan S. with an 18" main stem Brown trout!

David G. with a nice 17" Brown trout!

Jigmeister Andy! Big Brown trout!

Andy S. holding a chunky Delaware river Brown trout!

Guide Mike P. holding Andy's second picture worthy fish of the day!

4/16-4/18

These past few days have been high pressure, sunny, and windy.  Despite the less than ideal water and weather conditions, we have been on the water catching our target species daily.  pictured here are a few bass and trout that were caught this past week.  More photos soon to come!

A nice East Branch Smallmouth

Another slammer East Branch Smallmouth bass!

A beauty of a Main Stem Brown trout

This Main Stem Smallie crushed a Husky Jerk!

4/13/15 Float trip

Today was a windy day on the river!  After persistence on the water, we managed to boat trout, walleye, and fallfish.  Here are a some photos from the day!

A chunky 19" Brown trout for Guide Mike P.

A spring spawn walleye found its way into our net today.

4/11/15 Float Trip

Today was the first nice weather we have seen post Ice out on just about the entire river system.   Our friend Len, my father Mike ,of Sweetwater Guide, and I, hit the water in search of trout.   We found em'!  It took a bit of patience and hard work.  We managed to boat and release 4 healthy Brown trout from the West Branch of the Delaware river.   With a water temperature rising from 38-45 degrees throughout the day, the fish were moving slowly.  Key to hooking up was finesse, and a slow retrieve.  Here are some photos of the "happy to see spring" Brown Trout from our day!

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A feisty little Delaware river Brown trout! 

Healthy Brown trout on the Delaware!  Guide Evan P.

A smooth release of our beautiful catch!

First Float of the Year!

The Sweetwater Guides hit the water for the first time of the 2015 season today.  Despite the water temperature hovering around 40 degrees, we were able to find a few brown trout.  We found healthy brown trout holding in slack water on the West Branch.  Here is a photo of our first trout in the net for the season.  1st of many to come, the season has officially begun!

First Brown trout of the year, about 16 inches of a healthy beautiful trout.

Happy Easter, and Happy Ice out!

As of Easter sunday morning, the ice in Narrowsburg has broken up almost completely, and it is all melting and moving down river.  We have a little time before it settles this far down, but given steady temperatures, the upper sections of the river surrounding Hancock should be in good shape by the end of this week at the latest.   Here are some pics from April 4th and April 5th.

April 4th at 4:00 P.M. Narrowsburg bridge, down stream.

April 5th 10:00 A.M.  The Ice is flowing!

April 2nd river update!

Below the Cochecton/Damascus bridge was frozen solid yesterday morning, Today it is open with running water for a solid mile.  The Ice is breaking up and starting to move, all the tributaries are now flowing brown with snow melt, and a full swing ice out is about to happen.  With above freezing temperatures forecasted for the next two nights, we are hoping for a total ice out and flood here by this weekend.  Bring on the Spring!

Damascus, PA access area, the melt has begun!