As I write this on the 4th of July we are blessed or cursed with a ton of water, no fishing for a few weeks will do the trout well. The other week I was to help the Big Brother & Sisters of Center County with a fish out at the Federal Hatchery in Lamar but due to a violent thunderstorm it was cancelled unit July 7th (no worry about high water all the fish are in a raceway), I drove back to State College to fish the afternoon. I have know Steve S. at Fly Fisher's Paradise for more than 40 years and always value our conversations, this time he was in a bad mood because of guys fishing Penns with the higher water temp's, ok we might do that but most of us stop fishing Penns in July & August because of low water and high temp's, ok that was solved. Steve also was adamant about anglers not using big tandem streamers for trout, might a new book by Geo. Daniel have something to do with this? Steve also once again told me to use wet black ants and this has not been the first time he has told me this, he even said it works well on Penns, ok I gave it a try on Spring that afternoon and it did work very well, I used a #16 black epoxy ant under a NZ wool indicator with "2" very small shot to get it down, not bad to cast and the trout ate it, next time your out give it a try! I have not used any streamers with tandem hooks and really do not know if it really hurts the fish as Steve thinks it does, all my streamers are single hooks and I am now just starting to do some tube and intruder style streamers for later in the year when I hunt for bigger browns in Bald Eagle!
Until the water goes down read or tie flies and give the trout a good rest because on Penns they really need it, if you see the amount of guys that fish below Cherry Run in the last 2 months you will understand why they need a rest period- where the hell do they all come from "Hoffman's cabin"?
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