Friday the 13th is to be a bad luck day, ok it was cold in the morning,-2 on a bank clock in State College, just have another cup of coffee and wait till 10 or 11:00 AM. At 10:30 I checked Bald Eagle just below the Milesburg bridge and they were up en mass but with the recent influx of water it was a bit high to get to the major pod of rising fish and with the deep wading and the need to wade up the left bank and not fall into the very deep water I decided not to try it. Checked out some favorite pools and riffles on Spring Creek and found them up big time, all you had to do was look at the seams as they took midge after midge! Hartles bridge downstream and upstream had fish to keep you busy till mid afternoon all with no one around, where can you get that! Under the bridge I found a really nice brown just eating everything in sight, he took my Grif's Gnat, nice really nice. This is the same bridge where Jim Leathers would spend hours fishing to the pod of fish that hang out there, the size of them now is not what they were then. I think that Steve S. from Flyfishers Paradis is correct in his assesment of the population of Spring Creek, overpopulation has reduced the overall size of the fish and maybe we need to see some reduction in them?
My Griff's Gnat is tied with smaller peacock hearl and sparse undersized grizzle hackle to combat the tendancy of leader twish with light tippets but I do also fish a buzzball when mating swarms are on the water, nothing but a very small body with a lot of hackle, fish this on a 6 or 6.5x tippet or you have a cork screw on you leader!
Have a great Christmas and be safe if you wade, it's cold and you will not last long if you get soaked.
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