Fishing Creek

At Fishing Creek the other day and not too many others around? Got geared up and walked to the first pool, did the line and leader streatch and put on a #18 very slim BWO emerger and waited to see the rise forms. There was a really good fish in the tail out just eating like a little piggy BUT low and behold just to my side there was a looped stick just above the waters surface, no room to get a cast in below or above but he just kept on eating, tried a cast and got a good float till the leader hit the stick and pulled the fly downstream and into the stick- lost one fly and the fish never came back up. Yes there were others rishing and eating but this guy was a good one. Worked up to the head of the pool and decided to walk up to the next pool. Fish rising to the BOW's and again another good fish deep under the trees and at least a good chance to get a drift over it. Worked into position and made the cast and he took and bolted out of there upstream into a pile of drift wood all at supersonic speed, well not a good fish for the day. It was a very good day with the smaller guys eating the BWO's and not having company. There were Grannom's and a very small amount of Hendrickson's but they were on the BWO's. Penn's seems to be coming into it's own now and with the March Brown's and Grey Fox's it is a wonderful time to get out there and start at the tail end of a pool and work your way upstream casting to both sides as you move upstream, emergers is the name of the game now. Spring Creek has Sulphur's and a fisherman's hatch- that means it crowded, gt there early and get a position and stay late!