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Originally Posted by Broad Bill
Looks like the Milford / Montague bridge in the back drop. If so, nice float, very productive and beautiful stretch of the Delaware. Nice seeing the smallies population flourishing again, the Big D can at times be a tough river to fish but at the same time is one gem of a diversified fishery and a beautiful part of the state. Sounds like you guys hit it right and had a great float, couldn't ask for a better day on the water.
Were most fish caught on artificials or hellgrammites and crayfish for the smallmouths. We're they concentrated in the rapids, deeper pools or spread out?
Did you see any signs of this year's juvenile shad fry on the river during your drift? September and October they typically start skipping their way on the surface down the river, curious if you saw indications of their presence during your trip.
Fantastic report.
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Hey Bill... We fished Ned Rigs with the TRD PBJ color almost exclusively and that's what they seemed keyed in on... I started with a different plastic on the Ned which was not working and quickly switched over when we saw Jake nailing them on the PBJ.
Most of the fish were caught in the deeper water after rapids and the most productive areas seemed to below the rapids in pockets close to the bank. Cast upstream let the Ned float downstream twitching through the ripples and you were on. Stopped several places that looked fishy, anchored up pulled a dozen and moved on to the next.
We did see a few big schools of small bait twitching up top but not sure what they were.
Between our larger group we also caught 2 Walleye and probably a half a dozen Fall fish. First half of the float where there were more rapids was best and deeper long lazy stretches it slowed down a lot.
The float boat was the way to go. Mikey would row us into casting distance in a fishy looking spot, drop the anchor with the special anchoring system he has and we'd go to work. Other times he'd row up stream into the current to slow the drift down so we could work the Neds better and that was productive too.
Jake commented several times during the trip, shaking his head in disbelief, how did I not know about this fishery? It's unbelievable!
All in all one of my most memorable fishing trips and I plan to do this a lot more. So peaceful, so productive and so relaxing, especially with Mikey doing all the work for us
