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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Phenomenal Fishing this past Week!

This past week offered amazing nymphing and dry fly fishing on the streams.  To top it off, it ended on Sunday with us getting some much needed rainfall (The heaviest rainfall happened well after the hatches were over).  Sure the stream levels on Penns, the Little J and Spruce are flowing above normal, but it will all pay off throughout the summer months.  

The Sulphurs continue to be heavy on most of the streams and I am seeing a varying number of Light Cahills on Spring Creek on a nightly basis.  I caught close to 35 fish using a parachute Light Cahill and the following night in Milesburg I caught a majority of the fish on a yellow Sulphur comparadun.  Sunday night there was a larger spinner fall and I switched to using an orange Sparkle Dun.  It's been a lot of fun tying a variety of Sulphur/Light Cahill/Crane Fly patterns and putting them to use the following fishing trips.  If you have a variety of those flies tied you should have adequate ammo to cast to a majority of the rising trout.  

It looks like the rainfall is to continue through Wednesday and let up on Thursday so you can have some luck throwing cone head Olive Slumpbusters depending on the water levels.  Either way a rainy day on the streams beats a bad day at the office!

Tight lines! 





It was raining, sorry for the blurriness!

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3 comments:

  1. Passinthru OutdoorsMay 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM

    nice report, keep them coming. I will be making a trip to the area for some penns creek fishing but after looking at the stream report today it might not even be fishable by Wednesday. ARGHHHH.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  2. UnknownMay 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM

    Thanks! Stay tuned later this week to get a full update on what to expect on all the streams in that area. As of this morning Penns looked (USGS streamflow) good and very fishable and I think you will see a fairly sizable Drake hatch that day, should the water maintain it's fishability.

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  3. Kirk HooverMay 16, 2012 at 12:43 AM

    One of the streams that did not get hit as hard as the others is the Little J. Usually the Little J is at 388cfs and right now it is reading 571cfs. I went by Spring Creek today and it was up and flowing fast, Penns is up to 2510 cfs when it is usually 619 cfs. If you are driving from far away the Little J is your best bet as of Tuesday evening.

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