Monday, October 3, 2011

Will it ever stop raining?

OMG it just keeps coming down! When we catch a break from the rain, the water is either coming up or just starting to fall making for very diffuclt fishing conditions. I'm not opposed to using very large streamers at this time of year but it would be nice to be able to cross the creek, not something I would advise. If you want to fish ,Spring Creek would be my choice but what the hell are you going to do with all the othet guys who have the same idea? In a normal year we would be seeing Olives and flying ants at this time, if the levels return and the sun comes out- look for the ants, it is time for them to swarm and it normaly happens on the first or second day after a period of stormy weather. The only problem with the ants is that you never know wich one will fly around, Black (size 14 thru 18) Red (size 18 thru 22) or the Black front & Dark Tan rear (size 16) you need to have them all in a special box- remember they need spinner wings. If you forget the box and the fall occurs, you will spend a few hours just watching trout gorge themselfs and have no way to fool them, they are very selective during this occurance.
  I don't wnat to sould like an old fart but I can not remember a year like this, high water in the spring then very low water and finaly flood conditions, who woudl ever expect that we would be 25" above normal rain fall? Now we need to have the leaves change and fall then a shot of high water to flush the stream and signal the trout that the conditons are perfect for spawing. Every year the trout seem to hold off (not all but most) till we get that shot of high water to flush the leaves from the streams. Check it out, it is the time of year when I check the realitive health of our trout populations and the average size of the active spawners, just walk a stream and watch and you'll be suprised at what you see. Check Penns, Spring and Fishing Creek for active redds and some of the browns that are found there, no time fram but the end of Nov and the first two weeks of Dec. Be carefult the redds are in areas you normaly wade in, stay back and keep hidden.

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