Calm Before the Storm (Little J)

Jeff Scipione and I made another run at the Little Juniata before the heavy rainfall started last night.  We got there around 4:30PM and the Sulphur's were starting to come out in full force along with a fair amount of tan caddis.  

After the rainfall we received last evening and this morning the streams have elevated water levels but we needed the rain to support the trout/aquatic insects at later points this summer.  

It was a crazy few hours of fishing and we hooked into some beautiful brown and a healthy rainbow trout!  Below are a few of the better trout we took on a variety of dry fly sulphur patterns.  

Photos from the Little J

Recently I've made a bunch of trips to the Little J and there have been some very memorable trips angling for "river trout."  Jeff Scipione, Doc Scipione and I had an extraordinary evening on the stream using a myriad of crane fly, sulphur, caddis and BWO dry fly patterns.  The stream has literally been flooded with insects. 

I've been seizing every opportunity to make the trip to the Little Juniata because every time I go there, there is either a good fish is caught, landed or lost and put into my mental log for the next trip!  

Spring Creek has sulphurs, so does the Little J and Penns has reported some good march brown activity.  All of the local streams are heating up and anywhere you go, I'm sure it will result in great fishing!

Kevin Best at Nomad nets would enjoy the amount of use that his incredible hand net is getting.  There have been several occasions where we had multiple fish in the net at one time from numerous "doubles."

Here are a few photos of recent adventures on the Little J, enjoy! There were plenty of other trout caught and not photographed because things were crazy and we were into a ton of fish.