Just off River Road are five covered bridges carrying smaller roads over the Delaware's feeder streams.
The heat is up, the water is down and the trout are holding in cooler areas where feeder streams enter the river.
In the Adirondacks and Catskills, the lakes and rivers with contaminated fish are either acidic or have acidic water entering them from feeder streams.
A persistent drought had greatly reduced the river's flow and some of its feeder streams, among them Merrill and Horne Brooks, were either bone dry or stagnant pools.
Mahay said that the river would not be clear until September, but we could fish where feeder streams washed the water clear.
The Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, a keystone in Governor McGreevey's environmental initiative, would severely restrict development near reservoirs and feeder streams in half of 800,000 acres across the northern tier of the state.
Ms. Filippone said the state should concentrate on curbing housing development in rural parts of the Wanaque watershed to conserve water and stop depletion of aquifers that help supply the reservoir's feeder streams.
We visited the river in summer, and during the day the water temperature was in the mid-70's, too warm for the trout that we often saw congregated at the mouths of cold feeder streams.
In the 20th century, logging operations on its feeder streams, which include the Péribonca, Mistassini, Chamouchouane, and Ouiatchouane rivers, led to the establishment of large paper mills on the lake.
Western European history records the rise of 13 national capitals on sizable rivers, exclusive of seawater inlets; three of them, Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade, lie on the Danube, with two others, Sofia and Bucharest, on feeder streams above stem floodplain level.
