OMG how low can it go!

Just looked at the USGS and Penns is reading 45 cfs, that my friends will get us into some serious shit if the expected polar vortex comes to town next week, think anchor ice. If ice forms on the bottom and becomes even more widespread when the next shot of higher water comes we will have bottom scouring and some redds wiped out or the eggs that have been laid in the main stream will be frozen, not a good omen for natural reproduction. We will suffer for a few years of low populations of our brown trout due to the drought and the low reproduction rates we have seen, off course the PA Fish Comm. will have a magic solution, just stock a class "A" stream as they have now suggested as a quick fix- these guys will do anything to sell another license! We need to come to grips with the way our weather patterns have changed in the past years, seems as if the water turns off shortly after June is over and we do not recover our water table until very early Spring, yes we have short high water events but they are not long term solutions to our lack of water. Maybe we can talk someone into damming up the entire Poe Valley and making a huge hydro dam with a controlled bottom and top release, just a dream.
  Read and article in Southern Culture on The Fly about why a guy hates TU, interesting when you look at TU's stated values and their "wild trout" focus, his problem was with his local TU chapter and their focus on stocking of a delayed harvest stream and the members fishing the heck out of it just after stocking! Does this sound familiar, same stuff they have always done no new focus, no new ideas and no new young or female members with any influence in the chapter direction. Yes we all agree that the Trout in The Classroom could be considered stocking but the benefits that we see from young students being introduced to the wonders of the life of a trout give them a firm understanding of our natural world and how their actions have a direct influence on it. Look up the article and read it, makes for good thoughts.
  Another good read is "The Drake" magazine, short articles and off the cuff stuff- no me and Joe go fishing junk. Also now is the best time to tie flies, I have been filling my boxes with emergers, soft hackle emergers and "Big" streamers (but with no water they will not get wet)
Merry Christmas