Fished Thursday and Friday of last week on Spring Creek, it and a 2 to 3 mile section of Bald Eagle are open with no or very little shore shelf ice. Spring has good water levels and the Eagle is running just a bit high for comfortable wading (it gets dam cold when your in up to your hips), both have been having fair midge actively in the afternoon and a some BWO's if you find the right spot. Both days I fished scuds in the later morning and if you found an inside corner with a dark bottom and slower water the fish hit hard but you have to get down and fish very slowly, a #16 grey scud did the trick, the attached picture is one of the better guys from Friday- he crushed it.
On both days the surface activity started about 10:30 and continued till 3:00 PM, midges were first on deck but the fish were picky, you had to change to find what each wanted, of course I took three fish fast on a Griff's Gnat and that was that no more on it! I moved to better BWO water and found a few fish feeding like little pigs on the #20 emerger took if it floated well. Both days were a welcome break form the weather we have been having, the little Hog just gave me good reason to want a few Groundhog tails. Get out there if only for a few hours or heck cast in the back yard just to shake the winter blues.
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