Took Drake to Penns on Saturday for a bit of off lease training and a long walk along the stream. As I arrived at Johnson's Pool the sheer lack of water hit me square in the face, this is just not good, yes it might be cool but with the extreme low water the fish are sitting targets for the birds of prey , mink, ducks and anything else that can get to them. We walked over Cherry Run to get to the Blue Rock hole and a fish has to be very little and able to fly in order to swim upstream to spawn, we just better get some rain before the urge to reproduce becomes strong. Blue Rock is a sad looking site as is the tree root hole just below the riffle before the stream hits White Mtn. and makes the turn.
We then walked up the road to the Fish Comm. Cabin, while there is a little water in the Cabin pool it is moving slow and if you stepped in to get in casting range of the two rising fish you'll send waves to the opposite side putting any rising fish down for good. Best medicine for Penn is just stay away and if you can dance- do a rain dance or pray for rain- we need it badly. The rain will have to be a good one in order to flush the debris from the gravel beds in order to clean them before any fish attempts to spawn.
Might be best if we tie some flies and get ready for the Winter Midge & Olive hatches that will be here soon, usually October is a good month for both but not so much this year, November & December are typically not great either. We get back to good rising fish in Jan, Feb and March for the Midges and Olives- so get tying or go bird hunting.
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