Midges!

The day after Christmas and Saturday past were the days to fish Spring Creek, Midges and warm temp's were the norm, Friday not many guys around but Saturday was different! Just find a place and wait till you saw the rise forms, in pools, tail outs and even the soft edges in the riffles, it was an epic two days. This coming week should be good till at least New Years day but what the heck make sure you have your 2015 license and go any way, nymphs, streamers or dry's just go. Happy New Year to all!

Money Talks!

OK most of you know that I do not like the present PA Fish Commission because they have no balls and will bend at the first sight of a storm, case in point now they want to pass a new department change in policy- "Stocking of Class A Trout Water", what the hell are they thinking? I know some of you hate TU but if not for them we would not know about this change, I have not seen any other organization telling anyone about this. If you read any of the current or older scientific studies that have been done on stocking of hatchery fish over wild fish populations you know what it does to the resident fish, hey wonder why Montana stopped stocking years ago- they believe in good science not this crap we have here, some rich ass hole or a gas company wants to stock fish to either cover up a kill or make sure some rich ass hole can catch a fish. What a shame our Fish Comm. has become a political toy and the director nothing but a figure head, I sure am glad I lived my life when I did, sad to say we have seem the best and it will not get any better from here on. Hell just look at the Susquehanna River no one wants to take any responsibility to help that body of water or better yet tell us what is going on with the bass population, hey guy's maybe you could just stock a shit load of bass and call it cured!
  I think that maybe you could send a e mail to the PA Fish and Boat Commission and tell them that stocking a Class A trout stream is a bad idea, I did and I have not gotten any reply, typical of any political organization the hell with the common people and coddle to the money guys- screw you! I for one have no respect for anything they do going forward but know if you have money you have power with them and the resource is not number one any more, it is money to survive.

Post Snow Storm

We got a healthy 7.4" at my house on Thursday and that blew the planned two day trip to State College now it was only to be Friday. Arrived to find nothing eating on top so it was to be the new dark olive caddis larvae, #2457 #16 with a black nickel tung. bead, it worked very well accounting for 8 nice browns in a few hours BUT if you did not get a strike within a few feet after placing it where you wanted it the fly & your shot would be covered with that dark green shit, what a pain in the ass to get off and clean your hands after, had that crap on the rod handle and my waders and oh how it stinks! After lunch at Sheetz I started to see rising fish and not just a few but a ton of them, they were in places that I have not seen them before, soft pockets on the edges of all the riffles, most of the times you see them in pools and not where they were today. OK tied on a #22 Grif's Gnat using 6x (if I use 6.5 or 7x I get a wonderful mess in a few casts because my stroke is a bit to fast) took a lot of fish from 5" to 14"what a trill to experience, no one else around! Would have loved to have been there on Thursday when it was snowing, I have fished in a storm before and the silence is just wonderful as is the tempo of the trout, I think they sense that they are a bit more protected and ten to feed with more gusto. If it is snowing go and experience it or if not go the next day BUT do not wear felt soles to walk in the snow because you will be wearing 4" heels.
  Oh never saw any Olives but really did not go looking for them, I had a 80 yard riffle to play in.

Not this week

No fishing this week because of PA deer season, with the color of our Simm's wader's it would be very easy for someone to mistake us for a deer- hey don't laugh they shoot cows! This week I have been tying experimental caddis larvae to use next week. If I fish Spring Creek in the area below Paradise it is a safe bet that I won't be shot for a deer but again one never knows. The month of December usually has the brown trout in a funk and not really aggressive in feeding but one would think they should be after expending all that energy spawning, it's just not a great month to fish. I'll post something after two days of fishing next week.
  A note about the fur I'm using, it is Aust. Opp. not beaver, all the beaver that I have really does not have the dark olive color that all the caddis have on Spring Creek, about every other time you had to clean your nymph off you would see a live larvae attached to your hook- OK let's tie some that imitate them!