Saturday July 2 found me fishing on Spring Creek, looking for the Beetle & Ant time of the year. Stream levels are getting at the stange on Penns that it is just not advisable to continue to fish, same conditions as all the other years, too much water then not eounght! I checked Bald Eagle and if there was any rising fish you would be hard pressed to wade it, it's just a bit high and a few weeks early for the Trico'sbut it will come down.
Checked a few spots on Spring and no rising fish, tried nymphs but sometimes you want to fish dries and that's what is in your head and you might as well just do it. Tried caddis and olives but only dinks were looking at them. Tried a trusty #12 black beetle and no takes. Tied on a red foam ant found it was the ticket. Dead drift was the key, slow easy takes were the norm, a few of the fish were decient but it was just nice to lay a nice cast and follow the drift and see the take, it's want we want some times, not numbers just the thrill of the take. I would try Tony Delong's dry with a black wet ant dropper the next time, he has told me time and time again about how great a combination it can be during summer terrestrial time. We are not officialy in the zone till Trico's come on, ant, beetles and maybe a black cricket fished early in the morning. I'll post an experiment we did many years ago on Penns about crickets vs. hoppers and how the fish take them, the crickets won out big time. This is the time out the years you get ants in your pants to fish them.
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