Wish for water and you get this

Gees Penn's is running well above flood stage and every other stream is also blown out now, had 3.6" here at the house the other day. We can only hope a lot of this soaked in the ground and will be released in the future. Ground water release is the way Spring Creek is fed, Spring Creek Chapter of TU has a great informative booklet that explains the internal working of the watershed, very interesting reading and something that makes you think just how fragile our water systems are. Now is the time to get your 6,7 & 8 weights rods in shape for the Fall streamer season when the water falls but don't wait till it's total back to normal catch in at the cloudy and high level. Start with smaller streamers first them progress to bigger ones, black, olive, brown first in cloudy or dark days and white yellow on bright days and clearer water. A length of 3-4" is fine to start and get bigger very early morning or just before dark to get those really big boys to eat. Make sure you try different presentions not just the downstream and strip back to you, try and get your fly to do some different movements both across and then downstream just vary it and take note if the fish tell you something. Don't just do the same stuff that you always have done in the past, the really good fishermen will try new ideas and thereby push the envelope to catch more and bigger fish.

About perfect

Gees after the rain we have been having our streams are about perfect, we had 7.6" the other week here at the house and last Monday Spring was just a tad high but really great looking. Still using beetles along the banks and if I see something flash at it I switch to a Black or cinn. ant and they eat it! No many guys at all around that day and I'm sure that tomorrow will be the same, maybe time to try that Euro nymphing game again, I see that I might need to have a bit heavier bead haed on just to be able to follow it well. It might also be agood time to throw some smaller streamers around. Last week I stopped to check out Bald Eagle and there was no way in heck I was going to set foot in it, high and very fast. By the way check out Spring Creek TU web sire there will be "2" really good Zoom sessions coming up and I'll post more info, one is one Musky on the Fly, we have some great locations to give it a try. Tying Musky flies involves using a ton of materials but the 5/0 -6/0 hooks are not hard to come by. If I had a boat I'd be down at the mouth of Penn's and the Susquehanna River and upstream in Penn's for a full day of hunting, not catching for that takes a long time to hook one.