Someone Say Trout ?

What does a guide do after working all day(s) with clients ?
         Goes Fishing of course !!!
 
this spot look familiar ? except for the red head cigar smoking woman..
 

 
after awhile they all look the same 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
and now some dinner......
 

 

 
so glad the rain scared everyone away, the fish are already wet what do they care....

Nice Rj! I love a calm overcast day with a little mist falling fishin is usualy great on those days in summer.( huntin too)

nice! ausable?

great pics, would love to know what bugs you saw.
 
As far as pressure, Grew up fishing the dacks and the ausable and the pressure can't touch the catskills. Thats what keeps even the ausable great, it does get a lot of pressure compared to the other rivers up their, but nothing like the cats.
 
I used to do pressure counts for the state on the beaverkill (counting the number of people fishing, and it wasn't rare to count a couple of hundred people fishing a 2-3 mile stretch.
 
Great fish though, I am gearing up for a week on the west branch of the delaware, just hope the water comes down a little.

i know the drakes are hatching in the skills, I like fishing the march browns better but it is fun watching those big bugs.
 
The drakes should be starting next week in the dacks.

ORIGINAL: jkbugger

i know the drakes are hatching in the skills, I like fishing the march browns better but it is fun watching those big bugs.

The drakes should be starting next week in the dacks.

jk, i was up this tues till sat.in the cats, the hatches been just before dark (sulfurs mainly) the bait and big BT are surfacing the pepac but i never made it, was busy looking for those crappies along the upper canons..for me this canonsville fishing is relatively new waters..i understand the DEC is allowing public permits for kayaks and small boats so perfect for me next time for my cartops. man that canonsville is huge..i drove that thing all fri/sat checking out spots for the summer. have some pics of the dams spillway here.  RJ, nice pics by the way bro! you are absolutely right about the west branch /east br. del.. it was like an amusement park! Heading home from roughing it on the res, i ate a wendys in deposit i was going to stop but sooo many were fly fishing, i thought it was a joke.. i took my time going it the slow way along the penn.side..didn't stop until i hit the hancock junction pool where the water was just too high and seen no bug however.. i cheated and used what was left of crappie minnows and second float down in th murky water (water treatment lot) i nailed a native BT about 20inches..cheek hooked and released immediately for another day! sorry no pics just tale my word :) glad they put a sign only one trout over 15" allowed on premise daily there! i had a few nice crappie fillets in the cooler so was glad to let her go. Anyway, from there it was senseless to try flyfishing the high water imo..no bugs and was ready to come home for sunday... here is that pic of canons spillway

tuna,
My favorite hatch may be hendricksons as well. I don't mind saying it on this forum, but most people when I lived in the cats missed the first week of the hatch because they were waiting for other people to tell them it started. I was about the only time of year when big bugs would be hatching and there would be no people.
 
Isos are a very close second, in the cats you could blind fish those in the fast water to big wild bows and catch quite a few and on big water like the main delaware thats pretty sweet.
 
In the smaller dack streams though it seems most times all you need are some elk hair caddis.
 
The dacks still have great suclusion even on popular rivers, they don't get the hatches like the catskills and the delaware system in the catskill is incredible. the main delaware is as big as the mohawk and is a great trout river plus it has everything else even stripers.
 
I love em both, the bad thing about the dacks are is the length of the black fly season, the bad thing about the catskills are the number of people. I am lucky enough to know where to escape the people, but that gets tougher every time I go.

jk, I have found some secret remote places close to my site I keep off the internet too..i was privledged to witness some pellet feeding in a private trout pond holding huge RT/BT/BRT.. after that i went solo to my spot in the eb trying to fish up similiar size bruts i know are in there but that flood runoff didn't make good for the hatch ..best i did was about four hits switching from sulfur emerger to a marchbrown and back to a sulfur than lastly a beadhead wooly black to call it a night.. I had four hits in this pool but no hookups..best bugs seen was the sulfurs 8:30pm (right next to dark) but nodda.. heard the main and wb was good before the rain.. i just ordered rod holders for my sit on top kayak..i use to troll two brookie ponds with easy access but they get pressured and so i lose the urge to revisit them.. i heard of some decent hike in brookie ponds but i have yet to try em. jk you are right I love em both too, "the bad thing about the dacks are is the length of the black fly season, the bad thing about the catskills are the number of people. I am lucky enough to know where to escape the people, but that gets tougher every time I go. "  jk, alot of the public access is so limited now on the wb and recently along the eb,  i try to reserve time going weekdays to avoid the crowds. jk, the backwoods all around the pepac a nd canon can keep me busy all summer. the canon has huge lmb and as I found out crappies too in the shallows.

yeah man, i try keeping it weekdays especially for bk...i have a few small jobs to finish and i'm going up for flyfishing weather permitting... lots of wet is in the forecast though so we shall see. if the streams are too high, i'll boat it either  way, always fun  this time of year.