Tuesday, April 9, 2019

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!!

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