West Branch Sporting Gentleman Trip

Had a chance to fish the West Branch of the Delaware River with a few guys from the Sporting Gentleman and the Fantastic people from The Delaware River Club in Starlight Pa. The River is always a challenge and with high water and windy condition we expected the worse. We had been looking at the water levels for a few weeks trying to decide how to prepare for high water, and we really caught a break in the weather and the conditions peaked for us on the first day. The Hendricksons were out along with some Caddis and a glimpse  or two of the March Brown. After drifting the upper portion of the West Branch we found a spot and both boats anchored on a little island and the hatch broke mid afternoon. Marc from the store had two big fish on dries, one close to 20 inches; with myself managing to land two small but beautiful Brownies. Everyone hooked up with fish on dries and a few streamer fish on the drift. After lunch and what seemed like suspended animation with dry flies we headed to the Home pool for some more surface action. Not to long after hitting the Home pool the rain fell and the day was winding down, after the rain shower we caught a few more fish and even a Brook Trout fell for compardun for me. Great first day on the river, the guided Jeff and Steve were great and we headed in for dinner.
The second day the river decided that we had to much fun and decided to play hard to get. It rained pretty heavy through the night and the fish were very much like to fish i remember from past trips hard to get although it was a nice day the fish would not cooperate but we still managed to boat a few fish, We overall had a great trip with the first day being one of those you should of been here yesterday types of days. The second day panned out to still be an amazing day on the river, with a shore lunch with two great guides and a few good friend.

Have a great day and maybe next time i will see you on the run

steve