OK was out on Thursday and did see a small increase in the flow on Penns but "0" on Fishing Creek! Wanted to see if the olives would make an appearance but decided to fish a tandem nymph rig. My set up was a large Oct. caddis pupa (orange body with a black & purple collar and a rather large black tung. bead with a size #18 bead head PT about 8" above (just in case the olives were moving), did ok but not the best- all smaller fish. Went back to the car and took out the 7 weight switch rod and set it up with a large black tandem streamer, fished this for about 45 min's and got a few follows but no takes, I downsized to a smaller bright single hook streamer and began to take some fish, they took hard and no short strikes like before, no idea why other than they seem not to be in the prespawn mood yet. The section of Penns just below Coburn has plenty of wood in the stream and I found them to be near or tight against it. The entire day I only saw but a few rises and no Oct. caddis fluttering around like you normally see in late fall but to be fair the weather was not great, caddis like sun and olives love crap- but no olives either. I used a varation of a steelhead spey single streamer fly tied on a 25 mm. shank with plenty of flash (gold and copper), the main hook is a Gama. hook and they are really sharp.
Just got word on some really neat hooks priced a $10.00 per a box of 50 from; www.fiireholeoutdoors.com they are called "Firesticks" some really neat types and really sharp and barbless, give them a try. Tried a few and wow "sharp"
We just might be in the midst of a weather change and may get some rain at regular intervals, if so I would expect to see some real good prespawn activity in the browns in the next few weeks. Spring Creek TU has their annual redd counting event on Nov 12, meeting at Spring Creek Park in Houserville between 9 and 10:00 AM hot food and coffee will be available to warm you up before and after the event, we can always use help!
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