Numbers Games

A few posts ago I made mention of how many small rainbows that I caught in Bald Eagle and one of my friends some what made fun of me counting, well he just fished there on Friday and his total was 47. He took all his fish on soft hackle wets, his total could have been greater if he had stayed longer but a State TU meeting was at hand and time was running short. It's not the number that you catch but this fishery is noting short of wonderful, small rainbows are everywhere and I have not had any good explanations of where they come from, one source tells us it's a hatchery dump but that does not make sense, they have been there for years and their size never seems to increase? At the next Spring Creek TU meeting I'll ask the membership for their insight then maybe we can get some answers. In the mean time go give it a try and see for yourself what I'm talking about. Just below the Milesburg bridge it's all small browns then the rainbows will show up aprox. 50 yards below that, as the stream goes more East the number of rainbows seem to increase to about 1-2 miles below Curtin Bridge, oh yea there are some very large browns that seem to like to eat the rainbows and these guys are not everywhere but they are there no less. Just to take 8+ small rainbows from one small seam makes you smile, it's all about enjoyment in the outdoors, go experience it, see the Eagles and all the other birds that make this place their home no less the 13 miles where 100,000 people watch the Lion's play football!