Submitted by Brian Cowden on Thu, 2014-05-08 15:16 Groups audience South Branch Raritan Fishing Group Vote Up Down +17 + Hatches were uncharacteristically slow since the floods and yesterday evening was no exception. Our Hendricksons are nearly over and I have yet to see a March Brown, but I wasn't expecting to this early in the cold year we've had so far. The question that remains is how late our sulphurs (dorotheas and invarias) will show??? I found a few risers to spinners yesterday evening, but they didn't have many targets and quickly stopped rising. I managed to miss one and hook a second, a scrappy 13" rainbow. A lot of one-and-done rises and they were crusing, so casting to the rise form wasn't often productive. It wasn't on fire, but I was able to fish dry flies. Right at dark they began rising in a riffle and I think to small black caddis. We missed a few strikes blind fishing in the nearly pitch blackness as night came over us. There will always be tomorrow....