September 6, 2010 - Upper D

Slow fishing on the West Branch and Upper D! Overall there was a lack of bugs though the entire weekend, and the color on the West Branch was not the best. On Friday, the color was very bad due to a large slug of very cold water that was needed to satisfy the Montague target since Wallenpaupack was not generating. Not only was the water muddy on Friday, it had a lot of suspended weed in it. As the weekend wore on, the clarity on the West Branch did improve some, but really the visibility only ever did get to a couple of feet.

With this being the case, along with the lack of bugs, streamers were the name of the game. While we did move quite a few fish over the course of a couple of days of fishing, we only landed one smaller fish. Some of the fish moved were bigguns, but as the case seems to be lately, they just were not that committed in eating. Following and swirling on the fly was the norm.

As far as the main stem goes. A brief stop at Stockport provided very little action. Blind fishing an iso in the riffs yielded no results, and no bugs were observed. The water had that Penns Creek limestone green tint to it. Which might be a good thing on Penns, but not so that look is good for the Upper D.