The Other Night

Fishing Creek was the name of the game the other night as Penns was just too high and full of people. FC was on the high side and a bit off color but my main reason for going there was that I had a lot of Yellow Water Iris plants that I harvested from my back yard pond and I knew that with the high water Penns was not going to give me the area to plant. I have tried for years to get a good amount of Iris to grow on FC with very little to show for it. I had over 50 plants to put in to the shore areas and also found that some of the seeds that I put in 2021 have grown and in addition one really good bunch has taken hold and grown! I have planted Iris on Spring Creek, Bald Eagle, Penns and FC, you might ask why well the answer is simple- they look great and hold the banks really well. I fished black jig leaches with good sucess but need to tie some more that have much more weight in the bodies, the ones that I used were just a bit too light to get down fast and be slowly jigged back but they did work. All night I saw March Brown's emerge (not that many) and caddis around but the big attraction was the larger Sulphurs, they were out in force BUT no takers, again remember the water was high and off color. If I was a traveling man I would beat it to FC tonight and relish int ehfact that there will be rising fish to cast to and water Iris to look at.