Spring Creek Before the Storm!

Jeff Scipione and I hit up the streams today before all of the rainfall arrived in Central PA.  We fished Spring Creek and had a lot of activity fishing sub-surface.  Initially the morning started off slower then what we thought but we ended up hooking into a bunch of healthy trout.

We started off taking fish on inch worms and sow bugs and then the rainfall started to drizzle.  I quickly switched to an aquatic worm and fish destroyed the pattern.  Several of the initial takes from the fish almost took the rod out of my hand and made the hook ups very easy to land the trout.  As the rain started to pour down on us the fishing picked up and we were slamming into trout.  Soon after, the grumbles of thunder and the realization of the two-inches of precipitation that was on its way forced us to call it a day.  If only it could've held off for a few more hours, but we always need the rain this time of year to keep the streams healthy for the remainder of the summer months.    

Shown below are only a couple of the larger fish that we caught, but stay tuned for the rest of the fish that are on Jeff's camera!

Enjoy!

  

A Morning on Spring Creek!

The summer is almost officially here and in full swing and Spring Creek is in great condition.  I took the opportunity to fish several sections of Spring Creek and had a great day of subsurface fishing.  The patterns I fished was a wet ant, inch worm and a variety of Czech nymphs.  All flies yielding nice fish and the only thing I had to worry about was the constant stare from the adult ducks tending to their young in the slower moving water.  

Attached are a few of the pictures of some nice trout that I picked up throughout the morning and afternoon.  I haven't uploaded a few of the underwater shots that I took, so stay tuned to see how they turned out.

Enjoy!

March Browns on Pine Creek

My father and I had one of the most memorable afternoons on the stream this past weekend fishing Pine Creek.  We stopped into the Slate Run Fly Shop and Wolfe's General Store to get one of the best homemade sandwiches money can buy to eat for dinner after fishing.  If you ever fish Pine Creek, stop into their shop and make sure to get a sandwich and check out their fly shop downstairs.  

After we got our dinner, we headed straight to Pine Creek and had a lot of fun fishing some bigger water.  Both of us got into nice fish and once the March Browns started popping I switched to a dry pattern and started picking up fish after fish.  It was an amazing afternoon on the stream and what was even more fun was that I had the chance to share this experience with my father.  Even afterwards a fisherman came up to us and said you guys put on a clinic and this unnamed fisherman enjoyed my response, saying "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile."

Below is just a snippet of some of the beautiful brown trout that Pine Creek has to offer.  There are certainly a lot larger trout lurking and there was one trout that I hooked into earlier in the day that I never got to see but it snapped me off within seconds of hooking into it.  Reason enough to go back and see if we can get into that trout again!

Enjoy a few of the photographs from our trip to Pine Creek!