Stopped at a shop on Penns and heard doom and gloom from one of the guides, he looked like Opie with a tight fitting hat, he was wrong. Told me not to fish Spring Creek or Bald Eagle (it is Spring Creek below Milesburg) but he fished it that morning- go figure. Above Bellefonte please check the water temp but below town the temp was 59.1 @ 11:30 AM!
The Trico spinner fall was short but very good, tried something new today, I used a poorly tied fly shop spinner #22 on 6x and by dam they took it but all down stream and across presentations, so much for my flies. The tan Caddis was among the Trico spinners and after the main fall I used a Iris X caddis and had a dropper on it but I soon took it off because no one took it but they did eat the Iris big time. Ended the morning with 25 trout from 5" rainbows that were fat up to a few browns that were at 12-14" (all bankers) BUT they ate the caddis maybe not the first float but by the 4th float the killed it. Three of the browns were tight to the bank and just rolled on the fly, nice to see. I'm not telling everyone to fish but if you must go and have a ball but land the fish fast, no GP death fight! This year has been a typical Trico year, not what it used to be, maybe some water problem because the numbers are not there.
No GP death fight not with those little fish your catching.Skip em across the watwer like bass masters when landing them
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