2023 Late Summer and Fall Update

Late summer and fall brought mild weather and stable river conditions. We did not receive many rainstorms that blew the river out for too long of a time. This had the fish in a holding pattern for most of the last few months, making them a breeze to find and battle into the net.

Mike and Evan want to give a big Thanks to all of our clients and friends who keep us busy, on and off the water. You prove the successes of our hard work , and we Thank you. Here are photos of many of our successful Sweetwater anglers. Enjoy the gallery and give us a shout at 570-647-7030 to get on the water for the 2024 season.

Summer Fishing at its finest.

It has been a very productive summer with average to above average water flows. We have caught Striped Bass throughout the summer and are catching Smallmouth Bass regularly at high numbers and catch rates. Poppers and streamers on fly rods have been productive, and 2.5”- 4” soft plastic baits on 1/8 oz jig heads have been the bread and butter for the spinning rods. We have also had a few good trout days, fly fishing early in the AM or late in the PM has been productive. Here are a bunch of photos from the past few weeks!

Bob G. with a Slammer smallmouth bass!

Alex lands a Nice Brown trout.

Adam catches an incredible Tiger trout.

Alex with a monster Male 21” Brown trout.

Adam with his first ever Walleye.

Another Walleye for the boat.

17” Smallie for Brandon.

a 22” Striper for Guide Evan.

Beautiful colors on these Sunfish.

And the Smallmouth too.

Striper for Brandon!

Guide Evan catches a 22” Striper

Nice Perch!

Al with the Al and Al double display of bass.

Father Al learning how to fly fish.

The kiddos crushing it!

Russ with a nice Bass.

Wyatt with the double.

Wyatt and his dad with a nice Walleye.

More stripers for the kids.

Scott Joins the fun with a Striper.

Fly fishing for Bass, Always fun.

Keith with as nice bass on the fly.

Night time Brown trout.

Slammer 17” Smallmouth bass

Jim with one of his 3 Stripers.

A big one for Jim.

Late Spring and early Summer update.

This season has granted us with great conditions day in and day out. We are hoping for a some rain to bump up the early summer flows or raise up the reservoirs enough to get a significant release bump. Rain is in the forecast, but often goes around us, or drops less rain than expected in the Delaware watershed. keep your fingers crossed. Otherwise, the Isonychia hatch has been great, with periodic days of Blue Winged Olives and Caddis regularly. Sulphurs are heaviest on the West Branch this time of year, and we must keep an eye on the water temperatures on the Main Stem. This spring showed us a very healthy class of Rainbow trout.

Our Mixed bag spin fishing trips have been incredible, with many 18-25” Striped bass making the Upper Delaware their temporary home, they hit hard and fight hard, and are being caught almost daily during June. Some 12-16” Smallmouth bass have been around with plenty of cookie cutters daily, and the Walleye come to the net on cloudy days too.

Check out these photos of our successful anglers.

Hard fighting rainbow trout.

Herb lands a sunny day Brown trout.

20.5” Rainbow for Evan on a Stimulator.

Cookie cutter Brown trout.

Charley’s personal best Rainbow at 19.5”

Slammer 18” bow for Mark.

Arthur with an 18” bow on an Isonychia.

Arthur with a post spawn American Shad on a dry fly.

Mark with a Walleye.

Arthur with another Bow on an Isonychia.

Healthy Rainbows!

Hard fighting Rainbows!

American Shad on the Fly rod for Dave.

Slammer bow in the net.

David Gurda with a 18” Bow.

Stan with a nice Bow.

Beginner fly guy John connects.

Jim showing us the colors of the Delaware.

Another Rainbow trout for Jim.

A March Brown mayfly.

Wading for a fish.

Incredible Sulphur Hatch

Fat Rainbows in the net.

Cherene Padua hooked up on a Rainbow.

Cherene with a feisty bow.

Quality Smallmouth bass

Matty with a Slammer Channel Catfish

Feisty Rainbow trout.

A Common Loon spotted on the Upper Delaware.

Slammer Redbreast Sunfish.

Smokey days brought some nice bass to the surface.

Mikol finds a Striper.

Quality smallmouth for Jon.

Mark with a 22” Walleye

Mark with a Striper.

A nice image of a Walleye.

Matt with a slammer Striper.

Cameron with 1 of 3 Stripers for himself on this day.

Jeff with a 23” Striper.

Kennedy with a 24” Striper!

Kennedy with a good Smallmouth bass.

Two young eagles sitting in a tree.

Spring fishing has been incredible!

This mild weathered Spring has brought great trout fishing and earlier than expected bug hatches. Overall the weather and fishing have both been great with above average water flows. The flows are scheduled to be above average all summer, due to the maintenance on the Delaware River Aqueduct. These higher flows will allow great floating conditions and good trout fishing through most of the summer.

Brown trout beauty

Kevin with a Slammer Rainbow trout for his Birthday

Slammer 23” brown for Christian on his first Delaware river float.

Roger always on the fish.

Lynn with a Beauty of a Brown trout

When the river blew out after significant rain, we were forced to hit a local farm pond. Crappie on the line for Hans.

Colorful Perch on the line also.

Largemouth came to play too.

Ethan locked up on an Beaverkill wade fishing mission.

Ethans Brown trout from the Beaverkill.

Nice rainbow trout in the net.

Beautifully colored Fallfish.

Chrissy with nice Brown trout to start the day.

Guide Evan out wade fishing one day.

Colin with one of many slammers on this day.

Colin and his 21.5” Brown trout.

Colin with his second 20+ inch fish of the day.

not often, but sometimes we catch small trout too. haha

Colin gave Guide Evan a turn at a 20” fish.

First American Shad of the year, above Callicoon caught on May 10th

White Suckers hit the Nymph set up once in a while too.

Fellow Guide Nick Jones, captures the shot of Evan netting a nice one for Sean.

Getting the Spring Started, and check our Updated braggin’ Board!

Here are some Great photos from spring 2023, this is the most mild weathered spring we have had in 10 years.

Ryan with a beauty 18” on the Nymph rig.

Ethan with the first dry fly fish of the year on April 8th.

The triple Sweetwater fleet.

Beauty of a Brown Trout

Male Fallfish lookin colored up for the spring spawn.

Bill with a nice 18” Brown trout.

A White Sucker to get the schneid off the boat this day.

Matty, the Walleye Whisperer. He willed this 30” Walleye to the boat. Late March.

An Awesome Spring and Summer Season

Here are a ton of photos from the spring and summer! Big thanks to all of our customers and now fishing buddies. This season was fantastic with fish, people, and weather. Many dry sunny days led to a busy summer, and great fishing conditions. We are now gearing up for fall and winter walleye fishing, some bass and trout are still biting as well. Give us a call if you want to get on the schedule. 570-647-7030

Spring Fishing at its finest!

A high water and healthy fish kind of spring. These brown trout got a conveyor belt buffet of Alewives out of the Cannonsville Reservoir and it has led to some Fat spring fish. We have had many successful anglers, here are some of them. Please call 570-647-7030 to get on our summer schedule.

Mike getting them on the fly rod!

Mike setting hooks on beautiful brown trout.

Roger with a Slammer 20” brown trout.

Rich with a nice morning brown trout!

Sam knows how to fish and caught more than 10 browns like this.

Sam and her dad Mike doubled up!

Mark with an early AM 21’ brownie.

Colin and his 19” streamer eater.

Colin with a Nice fish taken on a dry fly as well.

Sean is on the board with a beautiful hard fighting fish.

Sean gets another one!

Sean with a dry fly fish.

Joe with one of his first trout ever!

Joe with another nice brown!

Happy Spring!

Brown trout and Shad are our main target species for the next two months. Now booking June- Sept trips! call now to get on the schedule!

Matty with a 22” to start of 2022

Len with a 23” Walleye

A 25” Pickerel for Evan P.

17'“ Cookie cutter brown trout

A 21” Chunker brown trout for guide Evan P.

More Photos of successful anglers!

Call 570-647-7030 for a 2022 fishing trip! Big Thanks to all our Clients!

What a Great Season!

Pictured here are successful anglers from our spring, summer, and fall seasons. More photos coming soon. We are now steadily filling up the calendar for spring 2022. To get your select date for spring 2022 call Evan at 570-647-7030. Thanks to all of our fantastic clients for making our world go round.

Carol with her first Walleye ever!

Benjamin knows how to slam the Walleye

Another Big Walleye for Benjamin

Biggest Fallfish of the year. 18.5”

A Slammer Pickerel for John

Craig from Fat Guys Fishing soft plastics puts his bait in the fishes mouth.

A Nice Smallmouth for Stephen.

Roberto and his Rainbow trout

Roberto with a Walleye

Roberto had a great day with 2 bass him and Stephen landed.

Double Walleye for Troy and his Son.

Late Spring and Summer 2021

It has been a beautiful spring and summer on the Upper Delaware. we have been having a lot of great days on the water. Here are photos of our successful anglers! Please contact Evan at 570-647-7030 to schedule your fall fishing trips!

Happy Spring 2021!

We have been busy slammin’ brown trout on most days. The river has been good to us this spring with a lot of 20” class fish and plenty of healthy fish. Here are some photos of our successful 2021 anglers!

Jack with the first Brown of 2021, measuring 21”! Yeehaw!

John Shea with a hard fighting Brown.

Dan B. with his first 20+” Brown. nice Kype jaw on this one. measuring 21”.

Gary with a Slammer 19” Brown trout.

Ralphs beauty of a 19” Brown.

Ralph Strikes again with another 20” Brownie.

Guide Mike P. with another 20” Brown

Gary with a beautiful Smallmouth bass. caught on a Chasing Trophy Fish EOC 4.5” stickbait.

Matty with a Spring smallmouth.

Rich R. with his first ever trout! Nice work Rich. We hooked Browns, Rainbows and Brook trout this day.

Ralphs sweet 18” Rainbow came aboard for a quick photo

Happy New Year!

Happy 2021 to all of our clients and first time visitors! We are excited to be planning and scheduling trips for our 2021 fishing season on the Upper Delaware. Please email mike@sweetwaterguide.com or evan@sweetwaterguide.com for schedule and booking information. Please stay warm and healthy this winter. We are excited to fish with all of you this spring!

A beautiful brown trout from the Gunnison river on Evan’s Honeymoon trip this fall.

May and June 2020

The fishing season has been fantastic. It was a great spring for trout and we are now transitioning into mostly bass trips and evening/late night trout trips until more water is released from Cannonsville dam. Please call Mike at 570-224-4747 or Evan at 570-647-7030 to schedule a trip for mid to late July. Here are pictures of our successful anglers!

19” Walleye for Matt

21” Striper for Greg

21” striper for Matt

22” Striper for Mikol

21” Striper for Mark

23” Striper

26” Striper for Len

22” Striper for Ralph

18” Striper for Andy

19” Rainbow for Guide Mike P.

15” Brook trout for Andy

20.5” rainbow for David

Same fish in the net

Ken’s 15” bow on the dry fly

Lens 33” 18+lb Common Carp

Pete L with a beautiful 19” Brown

Pete’s 21” Brown

Colin with a Slammer 19” Brown

Colin with another nice Brown

a Nice rainbow trout taken on the fly

Gabe went 2 for 2 on 18” Browns in the first 10 minutes of the day.

Carl with a large Common Carp

Covid 19 Update!

It is with much sadness that we at Sweetwater Guide Service have said goodbye to the month of April with no guiding operations having taken place. We are hoping to restart our business in moderation with some new protocols once we are cleared to reopen by the state of Pennsylvania. This time is tough on all of us, and specifically those who cannot work and earn their living. We appreciate your cooperation with bookings and deposits for this season, and are hoping to get you on the water as soon as possible.

Feel free to call Mike at 570-224-4747 or Evan at 570-647-7030 to discuss your reservations or schedule a trip for the future. we appreciate all of our customers continued support through these tough times.

Here is a pair of Covid 19” Brown trout caught by the father and son team of Sweetwater Guide Service LLC.

Mike with his Covid 19'“ brown near Frisbee Island.

Evan with his Covid 19” Brown near Damascus.

Schedule a Spring 2020 fishing trip!

We are scheduling April-July fishing trips and dates are going fast. If you have a date in mind call Evan at 570-647-7030 or Mike at 570-224-4747 to get in the book. We are planning on a productive spring and are excited for the 2020 fishing season.

Happy Holidays! 2020 Gift Certificates available now!

Mike and Evan are already booking spring and summer float trips for 2020. If you want to reserve a prime date for the 2020 season, please call Evan at 570-647-7030 or Mike at 570-647-6069. We can get you on the schedule. And as usual, we have Gift Certificates available which make a great gift for any occasion.

Here are some photos from our successful anglers of 2019.

Here comes Summer!

Spring was fantastic, we saw a very healthy Brown and Rainbow trout season. The high water from the past few years has provided ample living conditions for these cold water species. We are now booking summer fishing trips, late June through September is a great time to spend a nice day on the water. Call 570-647-7030 to schedule your summer trip. Here are some photos of our successful anglers.

Steve D. with his slammer PB 23'“ brown trout.

Roger with a nice Brown trout

Roger with another good one

Matt K. with a gorgeous Brown trout

Lard Almighty doing what he does best.

Here is one of many for Tom on this day

Enzo with a good Smallmouth Bass

Enzo hooked and landed this Shad like a champ!

Adam with a rare Largemouth bass in a familiar spot

Adam rocked the multi specie day on the Delaware, Walleye

Adam caps off the day with a hefty Roe Shad.

Roger S. with a nice rainbow.

Dick S. with a fat 21” brown trout.

Lynn holding a slender Brownie

John with a nice Brown.

Ron N. holding a beautiful spring brown.

Brian holding a rare catch of a Mirror Carp this fish weighed 12lbs.

Spring is here!

April has come with mild weather for the most part, and yielded some nice days on the water. We are hoping to see some warming water temps as a multiple inch rain event passed through on 4/14. The fishing has been good, and we have had some nice brown trout, walleye, and smallmouth finding the net. There are still openings in June-Sept. Call Evan at 570-647-7030 or Mike at 570-647-6069 to schedule a summer trip. Here are some of our successful anglers.

3/31/19 Steve with a slammer 20” brown.

3/31/19 Chris holding a nice brown trout.

4/2/19 Miker holding an absolute HOG Walleye! 29.5” weighing 9lbs

4/5/19 Steve with a beauty brownie.

4/5/19 Ed with a fat Chain Pickerel.

4/13/19 Guide Mike P. displays a slammer 20.5” brown trout caught by Roger S.

4/3/19 Lucas with his debut Delaware river brown trout.

4/9/19 Steve D. with a nice Rainbow trout.

4/9/19 Steve D. with a slender and beautiful 20” Brown trout.

4/9/19 Kyle T. with a beauty on the dry fly.

3/27/19 Len with a slammer 21” early season brown trout.

4/6/19 Gary M. slams a Smallmouth Bass.

4/12/19 Anthony with a healthy West Branch brown trout.

4/13/19 Brian G. enjoying the river in the A.M.

4/1/19 Guys working the Spring shoreline

Winter fishing and booking Spring trips

We have gotten out on the water with WNEP’s Pennsylvania outdoor life. We were walleye fishing into January this year, and Don and Brian called us up to do a Winter Walleye segment. Check it out here.

https://wnep.com/2019/01/20/winter-fishing-with-sweetwater-guide-service/

https://wnep.com/2019/01/20/sweetwater-guide-service-grand-slam/

Call 570-224-4747 to schedule a spring fishing trip!