The 6th of July

Decided to go fish on Sunday evening, hoping that the hoards might have all gone home from the holiday, they did! There are just too many really nice fish in Penns not to go there. Arrived and no one in sight, the fish just below the soft riffle were feeding and this small spot holds at least 4 to 5 very good fish but they are not stupid. Well the first fish came up for a #18 BWO spinner and I had the rod in a position in front of me and off to the left, well try to set the hook when the rod hits your hat brim, no fish, OK try the others, they all gave me "1" look and not another till I change flies to a #18 BWO emerger then they ate it. I have not seen the very large fish that I stalked last year in this location but will keep and eye out for her. Took quite a few fish and at least 5 chubs that I gave flying lessons to but sadly they all failed their flight test and crashed into the bank above the water line- so sad. I looked down and saw the large fish in the slower section of the pool begin to rise and that's were I like to fish, the were all taking late season light Cahill type emergers and duns, some were easy to time but others were a bitch and some were in the most difficult currents in the pool, just watch your fly do things that it's not to do. Well the video that is attached is of one of the four good fish that I took aside from the others that I screwed up, some I just was late and others I'm sure were those last second refusals that we suffer. One fish in particular was rising in a good rhythm and I lined my emerger up and just really never set the hook, don't know why just froze up, well that was all for her!

  I left at 7:45 because I was satisfied and I really had enough, I never saw any Iso's to amount to a hatch but did see some spent nymph shucks floating in the water and to me they all seemed a bit on the small side maybe I'm fishing Iso's that are to large. There is a very good article in the new edition of Fly Fisherman Mag and we all were under the impression that the Fall Iso's were a different species well it turns out it's the 2nd. gen of our Summer Iso's! Seems that there are still some Drunella spinners falling later as I saw a bunch of them as I was leaving, I took one more look for that big brown in front of Doc's and saw them on the water as the fish began to feed on them.
  There was also a great article last week on Gink and Gasoline, "Fishing Buddy" and "Fly Fishing with Stealth" give them a read and it will help with your enjoyment of our sport.