Ramblings of a Catskill Flyfisher

Bug Week

As fly fishing anglers, we all wait for spring, the beginning of a new trout season and the many insect hatches that will follow. When I taught at the Wulff school, one of my responsibilities was to …

Dusk on the Delaware

I began fishing the main stem Delaware River while still in high school. That was in the late 1950s. I learned about the rainbow trout fishery the river had to offer when my friend Ted Boeglin called …

Fishing the pale evening dun hatch

I didn’t learn about these pale little mayflies until one late afternoon at our camp on the upper river. I had not intended to fish until later, after the sun left the water, but instead set …

Aquatic insect decline: An update

In this year’s Fish magazine (River Reporter, April 4), my article regarding the decline of aquatic insect communities in the western United States was reprinted from the Big Sky Journal. In …

Fishing spinner falls

By the time this piece appears in the River Reporter , the season’s first mayfly hatches, including Hendricksons, should be well underway. That means that mayflies in the spinner or imago …

Hendrickson revisited

Looking back in the archives of the River Reporter, I found that I first wrote about the Hendrickson mayfly in the May 3, 2017 edition. I believe that was my first column for the paper. That, my …