Lodging on the West Branch of the Delaware

The sulphur hatch is on!

Two days ago, on 7/11, the hatch was on! the action reminded me of last summer after the big flood, when the action was phenomenal. I stood in one spot for two hours and casted to fish in every direction, rising rythmically. I looked in the water for some indication of their targeted food source, and saw small sulphur duns emerging, and lots of spinners, some rusty. The prvious Sunday, Ed had hooked two on a rusty spinner, so I thought that would be the key. But nothing seemed to work—standard sulphurs, parachutes, spinners, Cahills, etc. Finally I caught a nice 14" brown on the swing!, and missed two other takes. Based on the swing strike, I wondered, Were they feeding on caddis? The rise forms were not as dramatic as a caddis emergence might indicate.