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!

Little J Update (4/13/2013)

Hello Everyone, 

I didn't get a chance to fish opening day but my schedule cleared up Sunday to hit the streams for several hours.  BWO's were cruising around for most of the day but there wasn't the dry fly activity that my father and I witnessed the previous weekend.  

I had a lot of success fishing underneath with an assortment of nymph and larval patterns.  Throwing streamers and slump busters yielded fish as well.  Here are a few pictures from my time on the stream and I look forward to getting back out again to fish the optimal conditions once the Little J returns back to normal discharge levels. 

Hopefully everyone got a chance to hook into a few fish over the PA trout season opener!

Enjoy!

I had to add this because of its unique color on the pectoral fin.

Beautiful Colorado Brown Trout

We've had a bunch of photo submissions recently and this one comes to us from a good friend Adam Massaro, who lives in Colorado.  He caught this hefty brown trout on one of his recent adventures on the streams of Colorado.  He estimated that this beautiful fished weighed around 4 pounds.  Great catch Adam!

Make sure you hit the streams this weekend, the weather forecast in Central Pennsylvania looks beautiful!

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