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.
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