Come join us

If your free this Sunday Oct. 20th come join us in the annual Spring Creek redd count, we meet at 10:00 Am at the Spring Creek Park in Houserville, PA. We are in need of a few new bodies to help, just show up and ask to work! Hot coffee and food will be available for all of us. You can get a real good look at the amount of brown trout that do in fact spawn in the creek. In some years we might see active redd's and in some not many active redd's but the clear evidence of them. This year we have just had a really good amount of rain last weekend and the fish should be on the spawn. Come out and join us. An update to the Spotted Lantern Fly- they are here in Sunbury! I was sitting on the garage steps with my Lab's and saw a strange insect fly by and land in the flower garden, went looking for it and finaly found it and it was really hard to pick up, it's like they have a brain and know what your trying to do, got it and they have claws that help them crawl on anything and are great for getting out of your grip. They are just beautiful and will present a large meal for our fish population. I really don't see them becoming a factor in our mountain streams but do see them in our urban setting, "The Tree of Heaven" is their prefered host but they also love friut trees and grape vines, any tree that has athin barke is a target. we have killed a ton of them along the edges of the cemetary in Sunbury amd destroyed their egg mass', the eggs look like a smear of mud. Be on the lookout for them next year. Olives are still on the menue!

Coming

If you have been out you know just how low the water is on all our streams, at least 50% of the good gravel bars are covered with leaves! As I have said many times before a flush needs to happen to remove those leaves and cover the really good gravel bars, well it's coming Friday thru Saturday morning- yea! This is welcome news for the natural spawing that occurs in our better streams and gets us some much needed small fry. Our streams have the wood on the margins to keep the little guys salfe after they hatch. As long as the rain stops before the PSU game. Still seeing BWO's on cloudy days and smaller caddis in the later afternoon's, also if you wish any egg patterns is just a killer at this time of year.