Thursday March 22, Fishing Creek, tried the area below the bottom concrete bridge (totaly not legal!) took one really big brown on a #18 Olive emerger before I got the heck out of there- not the project water, it starts above the bridge.
Drove upstream and found a entire pool of rising fish, at first glance I thought it was black stones or olives- NOT it was Grannom's, about 2 to 3 weeks early. They came for the next 2 hours in waves and the fish ate them well. No it was not Chimara (the little black early caddis), they were all over the underside of the bridge. The funny thing about the hatch is that there were no mass cases along the shallows to give them away. The body is about a 16 or a 15 on length, black with a shiny green hue to it, the winds are a strong size 14 with very distance mottled markings. I used a Sid Neff style caddis with a black bead head emerger as a dropper but the key to any caddis hatch is persistence- keep hitting the same fish over and over till you either miss or catch them. Your drift is the key, if it doesn't float like a natural they simply will not eat. I was using 6x Trout Hunter tippet material and a Winston 8' 2 wt rod, thinking that the smaller fish will provide good sport, I was under prepared by the size of the fish that were up, I counted 19 in the pool I was fishing, all but 1 that I landed were 12" plus fish, fat and in great shape, that proves that Fishing Creek still holds good fish it also proves that they are not easy to catch unless there is a good hatch! Attached is a GoPro video of one of the browns that were typical of the day. As is normal a caddis hatch it was over by 12:30- 12:45 PM, I'll bet the spinner fall was good as well last night! Expect this to go for about a solid week, none on Penns yet?
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