2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

Floated the Upper Big D from Long Eddy to Callicoon on 4/22.
Water was gin clean and very low. Fishing was ok, Wilson got a few small brown trout right away. We fished the fast water and deep dropped in the slower sections. All totaled I think there were half a dozen walleye, half a dozen brown trout, lost count on cookie cutter smallmouth, a handful of fallfish and 1 rock bass.
At times you could look down into the crystal clear water and see small pods of shad swimming around. Lost a real nice rainbow trout that had some shoulders, a real heartbreaker. Nothing spectacular except watching a juvenile bald eagle swooping down and trying to pick off a merganser, that was pretty crazy. No rain at all, at least the wind was calm and we had a little bit of cloud cover.
Post float was steak and beers at Lydia's in town, then sitting outside the hotel room watching drift boats come down through junction pool.

4/23: No rain at all overnite, but the wind was cranking !! Breakfast at Circle E. Decided not to up to the Beaverkill or the West branch in Deposit, not much of a fan for fishing dirt (no water up there) so we looked at junction pool, wing was howling !! Scratched that plan and went down river to Kellhams Bridge, we both rolled a few fish there. Then we hit Hankins, Wilson got a walleye !! Stopped in at Callicoon and there were 3 people in the good spot, so I just BS'd with them, the guy had a huge Tiger trout on the stringer and said he just released a brown and a rainbow.
Gin clear water, windy, bright sunshine by noon, tucked and turned, headed for home. probably wont get back up that way till October now. Pray for RAIN !!

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

Nice brown trouts & bass also. Great pics looked like a blast!

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

The Merganser attack was the highlight of the day for me ...here's Andy's:p Thank goodness for decent weather on Friday, as Saturday was too blowy.

The first picture of the Brown that Andy posted is beautiful! I took that one with my 5 year old flip phone!!

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Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

Sounds like a great trip under nice conditions, thanks for the pics!

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

Sounds and looks like a good trip. Rough seeing that tiger on a stringer.

Those wild fish are so damn pretty!

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

nice fish Andy,glad you had a good trip.

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

I'd love to do a trip like that. Any info you could give me would be great like drop in locations. Is there a place to camp? Where did you store you canoe when at the hotel. I'd like to go in September. Thanks in advance

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

http://fishandboat.com/water/rivers/...ware_in_pa.pdf

Here is a good article...drop in locations are easy to find based on where they are marked on the map. There is a campground just upstream from the narrowsburg ramp, and I think they have their own launch. Don't try to navigate through skinners falls, I'd launch at narrowsburg and pull out at an unmarked ramp called ten mile River on the NY side maybe 6 miles down. Though if you're after trout you're better off further upstream than narrowsburg (calicoon and up). If that's your target, there is another campground (called landers) just above skinners falls with their own launch as well.

Re: 2 days Upper Big D float & fish 4/22-4/23:
 

what kind of photo editing program are you guys using? you made those tires look flawlessly like beautiful trout! We all know you're too busy cleaning our rivers and don't have time to go fishing!

gorgeous fish and always happy to see you take a break from cleaning up to catch some fish, well deserved!!