Best answer to mystery

Fished Spring Creek this week and found the water to be just a bit high but still caught fish on scuds. If your not bouncing off the bottom you will not be in the zone. I was thinking about fishing Paradise and wanted to check out the outflow pipe, found an employee and we had a long discussion of where all the fish have gone from the outflow, he told me that the new scrubber (the one they wasted money on) is doing a great job and that no midge pupa or other food particles are getting dumped in to the outflow, this coupled with the fact that no fish are lost has had an effect on the population below, gone are the large school of fish that were present and gave us so much fun. We used to have a great time casting #26/28 midge pupa to these guys and spending an entire afternoon catching them but they have moved on in order to find food. This is about the same thing that has happened to the "Sipping Pool" on Fishing Creek but the water quality has not improved to the extent that Spring Creek has. I have seen great midge and BWO hatches in Fishing Creek but no fish, maybe the escape accounted for the hight population, just do not know that for a fact. The fish at Paradise were very large guys and we believe they grew that way from the constant food but Fishing Creek is still a mystery.

Jan. 2013 Browns & Rainbows

Fished Spring Creek last Tuesday ,the flow was about perfect at 100 cfs. (before the rain). Fished a few good runs at the old West Penn power plant in Milesburg and took browns, using scuds and new pink scuds, no rainbows here or I just did not hit them. Pretty tough wading conditions because of the new gradient after they removed the old power dam. Did not want to wade up and fish the flat water so I decided to move to the Shit plant in Bellefonte, a good walk and wade to get there after parking in the snow but worth the trip. At this spot you have to be ver mindful of where and how far downstream you wade because it will get very deep and you will have to wade upstream in heavy water- not an easy time. Started to take rainbows of all sizes on the new tungsten bead head pink scud #16 2487 Tiemco after 6 fish I set the hook on a fish and it took off down stream then up and out of the water, I could not believe the size of this bow- 20+ and heavy. She slugged it out downstream and just pounded and shook till the 5x parted- dam! Took more bows on the shit plant side in the soft seams and got to the point of no return and made it to the bank. All for today.

   Wed found me below the old pink trailer location above the 550 bridge fishing for browns using a brown/olive #18 scud and they were there, all in the soft seams and dead water off the flow, even took some in the tail outs, this is a nice easy section to fish. Decided to fish below Bellefont angain and picked the old McCoy's Dam site, rigged up for rainbows and they were there big time. If you have ever tried this section you know how hard it is to wade and even walk. Hit a nice bow and saw that my line needed to be retied but did not take the time to do it, a big mistake, I hooked another very large bow and after 3 out of the water jumps the 4x parted, I guess I did not save any time not retying my leader. Here are two videos of the days action.