Do Not Fish

Just checked the USGS site this morning and Penns is running at 71 cfs at the recording station in Penns Creek! That my friends is just to dam low to do anything but maybe go look, even Spring Creek above Bellefonte is very low, we need a good amount of rain and we need it now. The heat the last few days has been bad and it will not let up till Thursday of this week and we are to get very little rain with the cold front that is on the way. It is even too hot to tie flies at this time. I have looked at the river below the dam in Sunbury and they are doing repairs to both end bags this fall, it is easy to wade out and fish bur you need to do it very early or really late in the evening ( but it is hard to wade back in the dark), the single worse thing about it this year has been that the cormorants are still there and they play havoc with the bait fish and the small fry of our game fish but it is time for the annual walleye night fishing to start and they do eat flies very well, think streamers. I have also seen rising fish at the Marina on the island between Sunbury and Northumberland, just go to the rail that separates the walking path and the river and look, not sure how the conservation officers will react to you wading around, I guess ok if you don't try and go down the concrete wall? Have seen rising fish near the shore on the Isle of Que in Selinsgrove. Penns near New Berlin and Selinsgrove is also a good choice if smallmouth are your game, throw in some big chubs and it would be fun. Hey a nice diversion is- go to Middleburg and fish for the resident carp in the town pond near the potato chip factory BUT watch the ducks and most of all the eagles!! Tie a bread fly and throw some real bread in and hold on but do not let the ducks take it, saw Vince Maranio hook a duck on a Trico years ago and it was funny but would not be funny if it were your rig.
   There are options for all of us but we really need to let our trout alone now, this weather and low water conditions really puts a severe stress on them and they are just to valuable to hurt.