Steve Piatt: Time for a rematch with the West Branch of the Delaware River

It wouldn’t be accurate to say I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the West Branch of the Delaware River because I’ve never really loved it.
That’s more of an indictment of my fly-fishing ability than it is the river itself, which has a well-earned reputation as arguably the best trout water east of the Mississippi. But “best” doesn’t equate to easy, and so many times I’ve stomped off the water after a frustrating evening casting to scores of rising fish, none of them rising to my flies.

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