Fact or Ficton

If you read the two guys who post about Penns "The Crook and Cousin Brucie" every thing in the world is coming off and you just have to visit their shops and buy their special flies or take their guides out if you wan to catch fish, bull shit! This has been a long cold winter and I think that our streams are having a hard time waking up, hatches are delayed and the trout are just not looking up like they have in the past warm years. I talked to a friend who was at Penns last week and spent most of the day and early evening at the Station 22 pool and riffle coming into it, yes their were caddis Hendrickson and Red Quill spinners on the water in good numbers but only a very few dinks came up to eat, if you know the area there is always a few really good fish on the bank in front of the Fish Comm. cabin but not so much this night, but cousin Brucie was going on about the 100 trout his buddy took, really?
  I fished Penns after spending a few hours on Big Fishing creek just sitting on the bank waiting for anything to come up, a big fat "0", no one wanted to eat on top because there was just not flies to temp them. I drove to Penns below Coburn and talked to few guys who told me that The Crook told them it was just wonderful that morning, of course that's before they got there? The talk was that the parking lot might be closed and most guys just wanted to check it out, well if they soon don't clean it up it might be closed. I took a bag and began to clean all the trash up around the parking area all the while 3 guys just looked at me as if I was nuts, well if the owner does close it just might your inaction have something to do with it, look it's in your best interest to keep the areas free of trash, OK you didn't put it there but you sure can take it with you to keep an area open, to the guy in the Mercedes from Maryland you are a lazy ass.
  Now to the fishing yes there was Caddis, Hendrickson's and Crane flies on the water with the Crane's the dominate species but nothing in mass to get the trout up and in rhythm, Wed was overcast all afternoon so it was not the sun or wind or rain. When I found a fish rise all you had to do was wait till he came again and most time he would eat one of the flies #16 bubble back caddis, #14 2xl Hendrickson emerger or a #18 Yellow Crane fly, never any pattern only change the fly 30 times. Most of the fish were typical of the area but there was a few stocked browns mixed in (the left pectoral fin was damaged on them) I tried for the two really good corner fish but made two bad floats on them and they both swirled under the emerger never to come back again. Did take one good fish of about 17" in a weird place but most of the good fish spots no one was looking up. The entire time I fished there was a constant parade of cars and truck coming and going on the road never stopping but just driving? I'm not saying the two guys are wrong but lets just tell the facts it's nice to be on the stream and if your in the right spot you might see the blanket hatches they talk about but if your not what they don't understand is that there customers will remember how much bull shit they were feed and go somewhere else where the truth is spoken or where they don't look weird.