Wet flies work on the Delaware River. I found that out in my beginning days of fly fishing. Working an area of my local stream with nymphs and dries, an "old" guy came down the creek casting across and letting his line straighten out down the current.

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    The Hendrickson hatch is usually the first important hatch of the year. The weather is finally beginning to break, and trout that haven’t been fished over for six months or so, begin feeding freely. Not being fished to for this long the wild Delaware trout are for the time unsuspecting of the angler’s imitation. Making these highly selective trout a bit easier to fool with a good imitation.

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    The days begin to warm as winter finally starts to give way to early spring, a few warm sunny days and Epeorus pleuralis nymph begin to become active. The river is still running high and cold, but finally in mid April duns begin to appear. At first it begins slowly, in the middle of the afternoon and lasts for an hour or so.

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    One lesson that I learned a long time ago from fishing the upper Delaware River is "close isn't good enough". Oh yea it's good enough to have an artificial that may look close to the natural on the water at 30 feet away, but what about the up close view of the trout?

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