Wanted to fish Penns on Friday with the cloudy conditions but the weather report said they expected late day clearing and that would push the Cornuta spinner fall later in the evening, so I decided to go about 10:00 AM. I checked various pools and runs but could not find any rising fish and really did not want to fish nymphs, then I stopped at the Junction pool in Coburn and it was alive with rising fish! Got dressed and in the stream just above the water was clouds of small spinners- the same we see all summer on Fishing Creek, tied on a #20 dark rusty spent wing and did not even get a look- what the heck? Above me there were at least 8 fish rising well, so I put my nose on the water and it did not take long to see what they were taking- #20 Olives (dark bodies and large slate wings) so on went a #20 Olive emerger and Wow what an afternoon I had. There were fish up everywhere in the pool, fish from 7" to 17" and willing to take if the float was a good one, if not you would not even get a look. The fish that reside on the North bank that normally hide in the overhangs were out and about and ready and willing to eat but as with typical olives they come in waves and the fish rise in waves- strong for a while then very few then strong again. I think the reason the hatch was strong there is because of the influence that Pine Creek has on it, I did notice that they were good rising fish on Pine as I drove in along side of it. Before stopping to check I did look at all the other spots below Coburn and found "0", just saying look at specific locations and don't think this is everywhere. I did see some tan caddis (few) and a few summer Cahills (lt. yellow) but we are about 1 to 2 weeks away from a strong caddis emergence, check out the raspberries, when they are ripe the caddis are on. Birds everywhere and the Eagles were on the dead trees at the tail out talking to me perhaps telling me to leave? A nice afternoon came to an end when the clouds disappeared and the sun came out strong, think about the next cloudy day and head out looking for a strong olive hatch. I did have one of the escaped big boys on for a few moments but just could not hold it, these guys come down stream from Donnie Beaver's place and seem to stay for a while or till someone takes them out.
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