It is Sept. 10 and has been raining for the past 24 hours, Penn's is at 3000 cfs and Spring is at 367 cfs @ Axeman (normal is 68 cfs), that my friends means we will have plenty of water for the Fall and early Winter. The silver lining to all this moisture is that spawning will be very good this year, the leaf drop should wash out and the brown's should find plenty of open gravel to do their thing in good flows.
A note to a new product- Hoffman CDL Tailing Pack, Pardo will take the place of the small and very expensive Coq De Leon packs ( 4-5 feathers in a pack for $8.95) vs. the Hoffman very large chunk at $15.00, quite a good deal. I have never been a fan of the small packs and the realitive soft nature of the feathers, I know everyone uses them for tails on nymphs and dry's but I have found them not be that stiff for dry fly applications. I have used the Hoffman CDL for a few weeks and found them to be perfectly marked as the imported birds are, also quite a bit stiffer. If you want to learn more about what Hoffman is doing with these birds, check You Tube Fly Fish Food channel and find the tour of the hatchery facility, you will not believe what he is working on. When Dr. Whiting talks about the CDL birds that he is working on, they have speckle on both sides of their feathers you get a sense he will deliver superior products to us fly tyers!
Take this time to tie more flies and wait this crap out, it might just be a banner Winter season for us, think Olives on top and really "Big" streamers to hunt the big guys.
As I write this on 9/11/18 Spring is over 1300 cfs @ Axeman, can not even imagine what that must look like, over the road below the bridge down from Fisherman's Paradise!!
Remember our fallen hero's from 9/11
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