Grannom's?

Looks as if this years Grannom hatch will be a brown water (high water) event due to the 1" plus rain we had last Friday, Penn's is still running close to 2000 cfs! When will we break this shitty weather pattern with all the moisture coming up from the South and not from the West as usual. I know it's good for our water table but really can we just wade a bit with out the fear of getting washed down stream.
  Look for Grey Fox, March Brown and yes Sulphurs soon but don't forget the Grannom spent adults in the early afternoon IF the water goes down.

A Perfect Day was a BUST

Thursday seemed to be the perfect day, cloudy and cool in the morning BUT turned out to be sunny, windy and a bit colder- a total bust except for the 4 trout that rose all afternoon just off the far bank just up from Johnson's cabin!!! Yes Little Black Stones, Quill Gordon's, Hendrickson's and some caddis were out but we had no players. Was nice to catch up with some old and new friends.
   The Grannom is a good week away based on the number of caddis covering the rocks near shore, when it's time for them to emerge the rocks will be covered and you know it is time. We just have to wait till it gets a bit warmer and a good cloudy day?

Check the flowers

Hey it's that time of the year when the forsythia are blooming (not in your back yard but in the mountain stream side) and that means Grannom's in the morning till noon then Hendrickson's emerging till about 3-4 PM then Grannom egg laying and then Hendickson spinner falls! A wonderful time of the year, this is about 4-5 days away. My favorite stream for this is Big Fishing Creek between Tylersville and Lamar in the narrows section.
  Hey what the hell's up with all the No Trespassing signs on Penn's now? Check it out just above AFREO cabin!!

Crowds!!

Yes there will be even bigger crowds on Johnson's this year due to the bridge replacement at Cherry Run, in order to get to the parking lot you'll need to use the mountain roads from Route 45! That is a long trek and not the best to drive at any speed. That means that more than a few guys will park on the road past Doc's place and of course fish Blue Rock and Johnson's, hell it was full last week. Two people were nymphing the lower fringes of the riffle and they did very well but were in water to their waist, they did better than Piffy! Dredging the bottom payed off for them. Two other guys just seemed to wander up and down with no clear direction, I just waited till something rose and went after it. Took a few really good fish before the wind came up and blew us off, the nymphers were still at it! Olives and some Quill Gordon's were coming off (not every years has a good hatch of QG's) some little black stones were also around, all my fish were on a emerger. This week look for Hendrickson's and yes little black caddis just before the Grannom! It just might be a good time to target another section of the stream till the bridge is finished, sometime in June!!