Upper Delaware river float trip 4/4/19:

[AndyS]

Since I have been stinking it up so bad in N.J. trying to catch a fish I had to drive to N.Y. just to catch one !

The1 and I got blown out of the Wednesday trip so opted for the Thursday trip. Unfortunately time restraints held us to a half day float trip on the West branch of the Delaware river. Fishing was on the slow side but it felt good to be in a drift boat again. I didn't go up last fall due to the enormous amounts of rain, so it had been close to a year since my last trip. The fish are still there ! The tough part of the float was all the "schmutz" in the water. Lots of chunks of weeds and all kinds of other stuff. The bottom was matted in a thick algae which seemed rare. We both managed a few fish, I had at least 3 follows, and lost a nice fish at the boat due to line failure at the knot. Breezy at times and a high temperature near 50* reminded us it was early April.

Pretty much that's it in a nut shell. In a month it will be packed hotels and bumper boats on the river up there. Interested to see how the video comes out