Bald Eagle Trico Fishing 08/07/2013

Decided to fish Bald Eagle to check out the Trico's, at 8:00 AM the fish were rising and the ducks were eating a very good sign. Of course there were bait chuckers above and under the bridge at Milesburg just as the always are. When you fish there what you look for is fish both on the road side and the North side of the creek, sometime you'll find a few goof one in the mid stream but normaly not, this is dink ville,  did not see any good fish on the road side but the North side had some really good guys up and feeding, this side has wood and a lot of it, most of the fish use the cover and take up lies that make it hard to get a good float over them. The Trico's were falling and the big guys were in a rythm, all is good the fish few fish were very good fish but you could see they have been worked over by the bait guys,, these fish are spooky. Spotted a very large brown rising just above a small branch that was sticking above the water, I'm gussing it hid more cover below the surface. I was using a #24 big eye olive Trico spinner, I use 8/0 Uni thread for the body and cover it with cement to get the darker olive I'm looking for, two split tails stiff poly wings and a olive beaver thorax. Terminal tackl was a 10" 6X Trout Hunter leader with 16" of 6.5X Trout Hunter tippet, this stuff looks stiff in hand but reall give you a great float over the fish and it's strong very strong. One thing you want to make sure of is do not screw the first float up, if any thing make the first one short the guage your distance and then do not pull a float off till it gets past the fish. I counted and it took 10 casts/floats to get this guy to eat and when he did all hell broke loose when I set the hook, this is one fish I could not handle on a 2 wt rod, you'll note my look on video #2- Oh Shit. Took at leat 7 more fish on spinners but I think that if I had a small tan caddis emerger the would have eaten that.

  Looked up above the brige and saw the troops assembling for a full assult on the water, 50+ kids with guides and adults were about to embark on a float thrip, I few boats will not put the fish down but 50 will put them down! Reeled up and climbed the bank for the walk to the car, there is not a good place to park here so it does take a bit of walking., if my cold and cough were better I'd go again and try for him and another one that I hooked but also could not stop, if they are still there.