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!

Blue Winged Olive fun on Spring Creek!

Hello everyone!

With the continuation of the blue winged olive hatch, I thought I would post and tell everyone how exciting the fishing has been on Spring Creek the last few weeks!  

On Sunday, I had an always entertaining and exciting opportunity to fish with my father.  We started around 1:00PM and didn't end until around 5:30PM.  The first step I took into the water I saw fish rising to take blue winged olives and it remained constant for the next several hours.  After that the fish holding along the seems in the heart of the stream fed more irregularly while their counterparts were still taking insects in eddies and slower moving pools along the side channels with ferocity.  This would eventually diminish as well and I packed it in and met dad at the car to debrief our day on the stream.  

Flies that worked: sucker spawn, blue winged olive nymphs, emergers, klinkhammers and duns. 

Below are a selection of photos of a few fish that I caught, enjoy!  

Spring Creek (08/12/2012)

Spring Creek has continued to fish very well in the early morning hours between 6:00AM - 11:00AM.  I've been having a lot of success using Elk-Hair Ants, Inch Worms, Olive Scuds and a variety of other terrestrial patterns.  The key spots to fish have been shaded areas and deep cuts along riffles or a combination of the two.  Setting the hook has been extremely easy because the trout will go out of their way to destroy any of the patterns listed above.  

If you are going to go out, make sure to set the alarm early or find a fishing buddy and do some night fishing after dark!  I have a most wanted trout that I'm going after this morning (probably as you're reading this post)!  Hopefully it agrees again today as I had a mishap the first time I had it on the line, but that's another story for a later post!

Enjoy!

Destination: State College, PA Spring Creek

Spring Creek is what I would consider my "home creek."  The great thing about Spring Creek is that there are so many different spots to fish.  Specific spots will remain untold but the insects, and other inhabitants of this beautiful creek make it a sought after location to fish before you die.  

Notable hatches to fish include an incredible Sulphur, Blue-Winged Olive, Caddis, and Light Cahill hatches, just to name a few.  When the insects aren't on top of the water, a fisherman can usually go subsurface and produce large fish.  If the water is up or off colored Spring Creek can be incredible area to sling big sculpins, slumpbusters, wooly buggers and any other type of big meaty fly.  I spend countless number of hours fishing this creek in pursuit of big brown and rainbow trout.  I even managed to catch a 14" tiger trout that I think escaped from one of the hatcheries during a flood.  

This is the stream that taught me how to fly fish and for that I consider myself incredibly fortunate. I am lucky to have the opportunity to fish it for hundreds of hours each year.  One thing that is unfortunate is that up until this year, I never carried any type of camera on the stream.  I've caught a bunch of fish over twenty inches and at this point all I can do is think about some of the insanely large trout that I've had on the end of my line on one of my favorite streams in the world.  But you know what, I can recollect every single one of those fish in my mind! 

Enjoy!