Decided to fish Friday evening, read the stream gauge for Penns and at 850+ it seemed to be a fair idea. Hey the swarm guy has been down playing his exploits but still tells us that he fished till 2 AM- sure hope not in the FFF area? Stopped at a fly shop and heard "Do you want the good news or the bad news", told the callers that The Drake is coming off along with Sulphurs, PE Duns, Caddis, Drunella, Stone Flies and Crane Flies but did not tell anyone that none of these were strong enough to bring fish up. Questioned him about seeing Drunella and he admitted that they have seen "1" dun, to say it's a stretch is about all I want to say. Decided to fish an area that I have not fished for 20 years, checked the trees for duns and spinners- picture attached. Water was high and not safe to wade, all I did was look and saw dinks taking a few? There was nothing of merit to talk about, then the heard came 1st one guy then another and another, all wanting my spot- not so much. No Green Drake duns and no spinner clouds, nothing, stayed till 8:00 PM and walked up along the bank at Stan's pool and saw a huge brown take 2 duns? then he stopped, a good mark for a mouse later in the season, it is truly a giant fish. Long story short I do not see anyone telling the entire truth about the conditions and the hatch was a bust in Coburn Friday night. That said lets get on with the Slate Drakes and the Drunella spinner falls of June and say goodbye to the non fisherman that showed up that night.
Jim
ReplyDeleteFished Tues -Wed. caught 18 fish on the isonychia nymph.Creek was off color and high selective wading was in order.Be on the creek by 10:30 at the latest.Slate Drakes start coming off between then and 1:00.Only seen one fish rise but they were hammering the nymph on the swing.They hit for about 45- minutes to an hour and it was all over.I picked up a couple but when they hit they all hit at once.Caught a double on my commercial rig.