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dryflyguy
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I spent this past beautiful, indian summer weekend on the little juniata river with a buddy. The water was still very low and clear, and the fishing was pretty tough. We did always manage to find just enough fish rising to play with though.
We also had a rather interesting experience.
My buddy Mark was wading in one of the larger pools, looking for risers, and seeing very few. Then a train came roaring past, and right as it did, some fish started rising very splashily along the far bank, - which was very close to the train tracks. As he waded over to get into casting range, he was able to see some small specks falling out of the trees along the bank. Apparently, the train was shaking things up enough there to knock some kind of insects off those trees, and into the stream, where the hungry fish feasted.
He cast a beetle among the splashes, and was quickly into a nice fish. By the time he got it in and released, the train was gone, and the rises quit. He kept casting there, but the fish pretty much ignored his offering now.
About 20 minutes later though, another train came by, and the fish went nuts again, and Mark caught another one
After spending a few hours there, Mark ended up catching 5-6 fish on these train induced fish. But things were pretty dead in between train passings. And around 4pm, when the sun went behind the mountain, and the air got noticably cooler, the rising quit there altogether. I guess what ever was crawling around on those trees, got less active also.
I can't recall ever fishing to a train hatch before, and am wondering if this was a fluke.
Just wondering if any of you guys have seen this along streams with train tracks?
We also had a rather interesting experience.
My buddy Mark was wading in one of the larger pools, looking for risers, and seeing very few. Then a train came roaring past, and right as it did, some fish started rising very splashily along the far bank, - which was very close to the train tracks. As he waded over to get into casting range, he was able to see some small specks falling out of the trees along the bank. Apparently, the train was shaking things up enough there to knock some kind of insects off those trees, and into the stream, where the hungry fish feasted.
He cast a beetle among the splashes, and was quickly into a nice fish. By the time he got it in and released, the train was gone, and the rises quit. He kept casting there, but the fish pretty much ignored his offering now.
About 20 minutes later though, another train came by, and the fish went nuts again, and Mark caught another one
After spending a few hours there, Mark ended up catching 5-6 fish on these train induced fish. But things were pretty dead in between train passings. And around 4pm, when the sun went behind the mountain, and the air got noticably cooler, the rising quit there altogether. I guess what ever was crawling around on those trees, got less active also.
I can't recall ever fishing to a train hatch before, and am wondering if this was a fluke.
Just wondering if any of you guys have seen this along streams with train tracks?