Cold Sept. Trip

Fished Wed Sept. 18 and it was cold as heck, air temp was in the low 50's and Penns water temp. was 53.4 , that my friend is great but we could really use some water. The early morning was filled with Iso's emerging and most fish took a floating nymph with gusto, I say most but some gave me a snoot and would not come back for a second look. I had the entire Johnson's pool to myself and fished from the top to the bottom, cold wading in the lower big deep water. Took a break to plant 20 yellow water iris for bank stabilization then had lunch before going back to find that big fish I missed the other week, it's not home? At about 12:30 most of the fish in the top half of the pool began to feed and I mean big time, #18 Yellow/Tan Crane flies, no problem I packed my box with them in it- NO I DID NOT, oh well time to go home! If you go remember to take your crane flies with you I didn't. All in all it was a wonderful Fall day and to be there with no one else around is just special, I did end up with over 15 trout and one really big white fish (Penns Creek tarpon) and I did let it go back without teaching it how to fly.