I fished Big Fishing Creek the other day and a great comparison is due because I was on Penns this morning. Penns was alive with tons of insects hatching, caddis, stoneflies, craneflies and Drakes but the real difference is the trout in Penns came up and took bugs off the surface. I arrived just after 7:00 AM and it took a while to get going but when the Coffin Fly began to fly around and mate and hit the water the little guys began to take them with splashy rises followed by the bigger guys sucking them down like a toilet flushing, not great but if you waited you saw them and that's a far cry from Big Fishing Creek. When I finished fishing BFC I saw Steve S. from Fly Fisher's Paradise walking along the road, I stopped and he and I compared notes on Fishing Creek, he has had the same experience that I have had not much happens hatch wide till just about dark and it's not what it used to be and neither is the overall trout population, don't know why but that's our observations- any one else have the same experience? Be aware Penns is very busy and you'll really not enjoy the evening fishing because of overcrowding but if you like to see tons of bugs and rising fish get there soon.
The olives will be on in a week and they last for a solid 3 weeks, oh the spinner falls every night between 6:30 - 8:00 PM BUT not every pool will have them, you need a really good riffle feeding the pool for them to like to mate over it. Remember stay away from the riffles because these guys flap their wings to expel their egg mass and the trout key on that action, if your fly does not move it's wings their not interested in it, go mid or to the bottom of the pool, yea it's harder but they are taking non moving spinners- think Drunella.
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