"asadi" wrote in message
m...
Yes, I believe what Mike was saying is that the first clave was welcomed
in
by spring rains that started a month before the first clave, and that
since
that time the spring rains have NOT started a month before the
clave....the
rains in other years besides this and the first - have started in
conjunction with the clave....

soo..mayhap the weather will be closer to what it was like for the first
clave, if not better.

I really enjoyed that first clave, it was like a cram course in fly
fishing....saw my first bona fide hatch and such..

john

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:zbR2e.72545$7z6.24322@lakeread04...
Mike Makela wrote:



Seems to be just about a month before the first clave it started
raining,
and hasn't started since..

huh???



We always need the rain, it's good that we get it, just not as much as we
have been getting the past few years. The one plus in the drought years is
that the hatches seemed to be more concentrated, if you caught them, they
were the best you could expect. With all this rain, it throws everything
off. Last year I saw a few Hendricksons around when the sulphurs started
to show up, that's messed up...it's hard enough with 5 or 6 larger flies
coming off, none-the-less the rest of the early season mayflies.

We're in for a doozy tonight into Sunday, looks like the worst of it will be
passing North and West of here, which doesn't fare well for Penn's. They
make take on some water in Coburn this weekend. They're battening down the
hatches on the Delaware too.

Good news is next week looks dry most of the week, at least that's what they
think..

The Finn