Fished on Saturday Feb 4, 2012 at Fishing Creek, Lamar, PA between the bridges at the Federal Hatchery, a very tought wading adventure! When the wading became difficult it was on to brush busting and briar bending. Given the fact the water was a bit on the high side and Fishing Creek is just plain tough to wade, fishing from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM was a great work out. Order of the day was tandem nymph rig with a flash back pheasant tail lead and plain PT on the dropper both in size 16, the browns took the top fly about 90% of the time, some very nice 12- 15" guys and a few of the smaller ones tossed in. This is not water for the faint of hearth, tough and fast with only a few defined holes to pick on, have never fished it in the season but could be a really good spot to go back to BUT getting out at night would be a big problem. Came up to the large hole below the top bridge (it has the dam on the bottom of it) and found a few rising to midges but in the bottom half of this pool if you wake em their down- well we waked them. This hole has been a pain in the ass for the past 35 years, have only ever had 3 good rising hatches on it in that time, twice early season olives and one late season olive other than that a big fat zero and it looks soo darn good.
Did see a ton of little black stoneflies, midges everywhere (size 28's) and a few 18 thin BWO's. After we stopped fishing we drove up the road and checked a few of the popular holes and they all contained rising fish, not a ton but enought to keep you busy. Most of the rising fish were midging but there were some defined olive risers there- if it's nice get there before the word gets out BUT the water is only 40 degrees so if you wade past your knees be prepared to get cold. Get out there.
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