The straight poop

Well pulled into altmar at 630am was a guy fishing off the bridge below the fly zone, why I dont know. Went down to ellis cove parking lot and it was empty, walked down to the muscrat hole saw two fish in the tail, swung my fly right in front of them three times before they took off. One came back after 5 or so minutes and I cast to him again, second cast found his tail, he took off up stream and I popped him off. Walked all the way down to the tressel seeing only three more fish. Walking back up a drift boat pulled in to muscrat and I headed straight back to the truck. Went down to pineville walked around glassing the water fo 30 minutes didnt see a thing. Trucked on down to the ballpark were there were 8 cars parked, 7 from pennsylvania and one from jersey, tried to talk to three guys by the stairs but they were real "tools", drinking beer at 830am, thats fishing? A local guy pulled up as I was takeing my wadders off for the hour trip home and said he saw a guy carry a fish out from the black hole two days ago that was 40lbs, my largest is about 30 and that was a big fish, cant imagine 40. So I fished 3 hours and saw 5, gonna wait till monday now then Ill sneak back up and see if the weather stirs something up cause right now the fisherman outnumber the fish about 20 to 1. Hold off if you have to drive far its not worth it yet.

feelin the fever boys

4 and a wake up and ill be there

never said the fishing was bad, never had a bad day fishing, just said that if you had a long drive id wait a while, my drive is only an hour, just throw some dead in the cd player and hammer down!

My trip is set up for the week of 18 Oct hope it gets better by then

The real deadheads I used to know wouldnt fish becouse  fish have feelings too, and they used to smell funny and not have jobs! As for fireing one up and driveing 15 under the speed limit let me just say, I drive fast!

im from pa and i will have a beer every once in a while ( i will have the beer and not let the beer have me) there is a time and place for a little brew but not to start the day out. that is just asking for trouble. you should check out some of the locals its not beer there smokeing.

i fish the lehigh a lot nice and quite but still like the salmon r fishing is good but time with my brother is well worth it i left when he was 10yrs old didnt get back untill he was almost 40 now we spend sept and oct together on the river as much as we can

now what you mean i have 2 boys/young men they grew up hunting and fishing with me when i was around i took my oldest up and hooked him up a few time and he said thats not for him my youngest lives in israel so i only get to see him every other year when i go over there. but got a grandson hes 2 but he will be going up with me in a couple of years (if im still around) good luck to you all hope to meet you all on the river some time (im the guy with the brown hat usmc emblem and white beard)

forgot to mention- my 10 year old grandson loves it there and has defintely 'hooked up"

There were a few salmon being lifted (just a glorified word for snagging) at the ball park. Upper river I noticed 2 trout around and spotted a few salmon.
My line never touched the water in 4 days..

Give it another 2 weeks and if the fish don't hit coolers the entire river should have plenty..
If you are looking for fish now, stay low.. Real low in the river..

hooked ten and landed 2 in douglaston today. alot of fish have entered the river in the past 2 days. and there are many mnore behind them. they are not turning around anymore either. they are running, and yes they are here...

ORIGINAL: 3fan

wont ever pay them to fish,  so ill wait till friday and catch them up top.

It's cool.. so is guiding.. we all do what we can , when we can ;)

Thats sweet DB :)
There were fish to be chased for sure.