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Stopped by to check water temp. at 4 PM Sat.6/30. Air temp. 92 and water temp. was 72.7 in the shade. Sat on the bank for a few minutes, just below the rock weir and saw 2 small fish jump and rise in the the riffles below. Heard a loud splash in the calm stretch above and as I turned to go check it out, an osprey came flying by me, about 15′ over the stream. It had a squirming $5 Rainbow in it’s talons. Wish I could have taken a picture. Asbury has given up many wildlife adventures over the years for me.
John, those Ospreys put on quite the show along with the Herons, Eagles and Mergansers. Those trout have to have their ‘A’ game 24/7. Unfortunate the water temp came up so quick. Beautiful place to sit and watch nature take its course though!
Water was 68.3 in Warren Glen on Sat 6/30 @ 8:30am, so according to John’s reading at 4:00, it went up 4 degrees before the real heat wave even started. Had a mature eagle glide through low under the canopy heading for Bloomsbury. I froze to see how close he’d get. Felt like a B-17 coming past. A short while later the heron came in at the riffle below the falls hole, until I purposely spooked him. Managed one brown on a soft hackle, missed another then the heat started to get to me. Stopped by the local liquor store on the way home, almost ran over John Miller in the parking lot, grabbing some cold beer. We were on the same page; water too warm to trout fish now. Time to think about hitting the big D or the salt. We need that WG stretch excavated sooner than later. Some deeper holes with riffles will help keep it cooler and keep those avian invaders at bay. Swine. Happy Independence Day gang.
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