Checked out Spring Creek on Sunday and it was as good as it looked, nice BWO hatch in the normal spots from 12 to 3:30 PM not great yet but a dry fly tug at this time of year is just special. We had a mature Bald Eagle circle around us about 50' above, weird to see the shadow just pass over us a few times, the fish did not like it very much! I know that a few spots on Penn's have had midges going on BUT be very careful if you go below Coburn on the creek road, it's just ice covered because the sun really never hits it well in the winter. The section of Route 45W from Hairy John's area to almost the town of Woodward was also not nice Sunday morning because of the wet frozen surface not getting any sun on it from the snow that fell last week, just drive slow or take Rout 80 BUT not if there is any snow squalls in the forecast!
I still have been tying more flies this winter than ever, now working on a new supply of black beetles with imitation peacock dubbing and rubber legs, of course foam is the name of the game- you need a bunch of them because of what the brown trout teeth do to them. Don't be afraid to tie them in #12 & 14's bigger means a better plop which means more fish, also tie some up on longer shanked hooks because you see a lot of wood beetles in the early spring higher water, use some weight for these guys and no peacock for the body.
Still waiting for the total results of the redd count on Spring Creek! I wish the Fish Comm. would stop with their crowing about how good the stream is, if not from a chemical spill years ago they would have continued their put and take management style on it. Now with Spring Creek TU's improvements and FFF no kill of course the population is 4000+ per mile, same could be said for Penn's if they really tried to manage it better. The only real improvement the should make is get rid the three dams on Spring Creek that the Fish Comm. has- kind of an embarrassment for them?
Merry Christmas and if you can go fish!!
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