On the Delaware - it's not just about the fishing...
My son Scott and I fished the Delaware River this weekend. We fished the Main Stem on Saturday and the West Branch on Sunday. This trip had a little bit of everything. Saturday it was cold and windy with rain on and off making for some difficult fishing with only a few bugs hatching. BWO's, Sulphers and some dark brown caddis were all that I saw in very small numbers and zero Isonychia's on this trip. Later in the evening, just before dark we were able to catch a few and lose a few on Wiese's Coachman Clacka Caddis and some dark brown Korn's Spent Wing Caddis flies. But the highlight of the day for me was seeing a bald eagle flying low, down the river towards us with a fish in it's talons. It landed on the bank right behind us and started tearing and eating it... very cool. A Bald Eagle and his fish... Later in the day we watched a Heron as it hunted not 10 yards from Scott. It caught a mouse, killed it and the...