The Egg is the word

Wass out on Spring Creek the other day and the "egg" did the trick much better than a "Walt's Worm' did. With so many eggs in the stream bottom it was no wonder that the trout keyed in on them. I use a soft egg pattern, Otter's Soft Egg or a yarn ball to get the eggs the correct color and size. Did not see any trout on redd's this time as I said befor the spawn is over except for a few late bloomers you might see, if you do do not fish to them. I did in fact see a small BWO hatch in the very late morning but not many trout rose to them, they may need to be on more before the trout look up. We only have a few weeks before our fish seek out the winter habit and become very hard to catch. If you do go becareful it deer hunting season and our brown wader do not help! Wear something big and orange.

2021 Spring Creek Redd Count

Sunday was the Spring Creek annual redd count, the weather was just great cold to start and sunny, it was almost warm! The event is put on by the Spring Creek Chapter of TU and this year it was just well organized from start to finish. All paper work was ready with clip boards and pens if you needed them, the food after we were done counting was wonderful, Wegman's just has top quality food and HOT coffee, hat's off the Fran and her husband, John Himes was in charge and did a great job. Our section is the same as always, from the Rock Road parking lot (just below the PFC dam) to Shilo Road at Benner Spring fish hatchery, water was up a bit 148 cfs and clear, we counted "186" redds in this section, only saw 3 fish on active redds but some of the redds were just huge. Looks as if when the rain came the other week it brought the fish up and the leaves out and they did their happy dance. I will post the total results as soon was we get the data from the PFC sites. There was a great midge hatch all day from 9:30 AM till we finished at 11:30 AM and I am sure well beyond that. THe only problem we had was that it was a Sunday hunting day with dsmall game and Bear on the target, we wore orange hats and that might have scared off some trout as we came down the stream. All in all a great count.

New fly from Europe

I am watching YouTube every night and have quite a few guys as my favorites, one is from Europe and has a great take on caddis larvae, here goes (I'll be posting tying video's as soon as I set up my Youbesize). Use a good heavy wet fly style hook and a larger standard bead, I have been using colored beads but it you only have black that would be ok, thread is "Glo Brite" any color you want, I use flour. green, flour orange, flur, pink and flour, white as an underbody that is quite bulky to this I add 1/4" x 25 yd. sheer organza ribbon that is cut in half and then cut down to about 1-3 mm in length. Make sure that you remove the horizantal fibers and that you only have vertical fibers left, cut a 3-4 mm close to the main ribbon fibe and tie that in, then wind the ribbon up in a spiral fashon to just behind the bead, finish with a small head of dubbing ( I use darker flashy dubbing). Whith your tying thread make a small band of flour. collar and whip finish, after your one tying a few, pick one up and put a drop of water on it and watch how it glows- a fish magnet. Fish the green one in Fishing Creek and the orage/pink one when the Chimera caddis are about to emerge. A fun quick pattern to tie and use.

Black Caddis

The other week on Spring Creek there was and I bet there still is a black caddis hatch that was getting fish up. The caddis are samll #16 black with a sooty black body, they are really hard to see but the trout are on them. Blind casting is the game with them unless you see any of the very sutle rise forms they leave, this is not a big number game but it is a nice slow mid morning to mid afernoon time frame fish. A black bubble back caddis using natural CDC as the bubble will work BUT tie a lot of them because they are hard to dry after each fish. Small streamers is also a good bet if your looking for horney male browns at this time of the year, I have seen males chasing each other but have not seen any females getting ready to spawn. The tem. is getting about right and the water levels are perfect, it will happen soon. Don't step on trout redds! Get ready for the next jucy insect for the trout to key in on, "The Spotted Lanternfly", it's already in the Harrisburg, Hummelstown area and heading north all the time. They are just a mess at the Hershey Medical Center fitness area and the Panera Bread in Hershey. They don't fly well but seem to be able to hop or just run away from you, they act like a stink bug does when you try to step on them. They will offer a trout a nice meal and it is a easy insect to imitate. Look it up and you'll see what they look like. They love grape vines and we all know how many wild grape vines we have on our trout streams.