moosekid
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What are your plans for 2016 trips??
My 2016 is gonna look something like this.
Once the snow and ice is melted enough for me to get down into the gorge, I'm gonna focus on getting my Tipi camp completely setup. It will be in a new location this year, within a 15 minute walk of my favorite pool. Last year, it took me 3 weekends to chop down the 30 odd trees necessary and transport them down into the Gorge from Jersey. Because I spent the first month of Spring working, I almost completely missed the Caddis hatch. This year, I hope to have the tipi pretty much finished by the time the caddis start popping so I can take some time off work and fish it hard.
My Dad, Brother-in-law, and a family friend will hopefully be coming out in Mid-May for a long weekend. Probably do a day in the Gorge and a day on the Upper D.
In late June i'll be going back to MN to try to hit the Hex hatch on the straight river. This river is short drive from my cabin (in walleye country where nobody gives a shit about a trout, a river, or a fly rod). I've done a few scouting missions there, but I've only caught chubs (these missions have all been in August when the fish are likely all hunkered down on a cold spring somewhere). The river is not your typical trout stream. It is like a swamp. The banks are all cattails and wild rice, but it is spring fed and runs cold(ish). 20+ fish are commonly caught during the Hex.
Once it gets hot, I'm just gonna try to acquaint myself with the Upper Delaware system a little better.
My 2016 is gonna look something like this.
Once the snow and ice is melted enough for me to get down into the gorge, I'm gonna focus on getting my Tipi camp completely setup. It will be in a new location this year, within a 15 minute walk of my favorite pool. Last year, it took me 3 weekends to chop down the 30 odd trees necessary and transport them down into the Gorge from Jersey. Because I spent the first month of Spring working, I almost completely missed the Caddis hatch. This year, I hope to have the tipi pretty much finished by the time the caddis start popping so I can take some time off work and fish it hard.
My Dad, Brother-in-law, and a family friend will hopefully be coming out in Mid-May for a long weekend. Probably do a day in the Gorge and a day on the Upper D.
In late June i'll be going back to MN to try to hit the Hex hatch on the straight river. This river is short drive from my cabin (in walleye country where nobody gives a shit about a trout, a river, or a fly rod). I've done a few scouting missions there, but I've only caught chubs (these missions have all been in August when the fish are likely all hunkered down on a cold spring somewhere). The river is not your typical trout stream. It is like a swamp. The banks are all cattails and wild rice, but it is spring fed and runs cold(ish). 20+ fish are commonly caught during the Hex.
Once it gets hot, I'm just gonna try to acquaint myself with the Upper Delaware system a little better.
