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This fish almost got me into the coveted "20/20 club." It's a 20 inch brown caught on sulphur-flavored Galloup's Cripple tied on a size 18 3X-fine dry fly hook. It's also my biggest fish to date from the Catskills. From the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York. In this picture: Mayfly Genus Siphlonurus (Gray Drakes). From the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York. Many beetles of this species were jumping around the rocks like popcorn on a mid-April afternoon. I'm sure they end up in the water for the trout at times. From the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York. Brachycentrus appalachia (Apple Caddis) Caddisfly Adult from the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York From the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York.

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WbranchJanuary 26th, 2013, 12:21 am
York & Starlight PA

Posts: 2611		I have seen many instances on the middle West Branch (From Upper Game Lands to Hale Eddy Bridge) where there will be zillions of Trico spinner in the air, and later on the water, and not a single rising fish. Yet from Balls Eddy down to where West Branch enters the main stem you will often find fish rising steadily to the spinners in pods remeniscent of the Missouri river pods of the 1990's. I've never seen Tricos above the Hale eddy bridge.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
AFISHNJuly 15th, 2015, 4:15 pm
West Chester,PA

Posts: 8		The Delaware Main Stem ws my home water(Cochecton,NY).....I have only seen tricos above Hale's Eddy Bridge 2 times in 40 years
Tom
"..when i'm not AFISHN,I'm a huntin'... "

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