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Just wondered if anyone did well on the green drake hatch the water seemed like it was high and muddy most of it.
Posted on: 2012/6/1 12:15
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I didn't fair to well, but I know others who had some good fishing. just had to be in the right place at the right time.
Posted on: 2012/6/2 6:28
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Penns fished well earlier in the spring with the low water levels but it has been blown out before and since the GDs hatched, and it's back over it's banks with more downpours right now. I'm sure some guys that stuck to it got some decent fishing with drakes, but for the most part, it was pretty tough with the high, off-colored water. Tough break for Jonas at the Feathered Hook with Penns being blown out at prime time for two seasons in a row.
Posted on: 2012/6/2 6:51
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2009/6/17 20:11 From central pa
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My GD fishing this year was very limited due to the high water. Didn't fish the hatch at all and fished the spinners two evenings. Did well the first evening and got skunked the second evening. It seemed like the fish were just swatting at the flies and I couldn't hook them.
Some of my friends who stuck with it did well fishing along the banks of the high muddy waters.
Posted on: 2012/6/2 8:05
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2007/7/3 16:22 From Downingtown, PA
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Poe Paddy was good when I was there from 5/20 - 21. The water was right at the limit for safe wading IMO, but fishing the edges was productive both at night and during the day. Monday (5/21) was cloudy with drizzle / showers / rain and there was a steady stream of Drakes popping off all day. The trout spent pretty much the whole day looking up, which is nice!
EG
Posted on: 2012/6/2 8:28
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the early part of the hatch before the high water was excellent
Posted on: 2012/6/4 4:55
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My GD fishing was great, but I don't get motivated to fish Penns, so I don't fish it, but everywhere else I met GD's the fishing was great.
Posted on: 2012/6/4 7:27
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I stuck with it as much as I could...only caught it one night....Went to the same spot the second night and the spinner was was huge but nothing was rising!
Posted on: 2012/6/4 10:40
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shoulda been here yesterday!
Posted on: 2012/6/4 21:51
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Yeah its back up high and muddy. Anyone see all those downed trees by ingleby one was on a cabin. I was away last weekend didn't know if it was that storm that went thru that sunday.
Posted on: 2012/6/5 12:20
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i have not been up there lately....yesterday i floated the little j and trees are down everywhere
Posted on: 2012/6/6 9:27
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I was there Friday night for work and it rained close to 5 inches, according to others, we were at the boy scout camp down by Laurelton. It was pushing banks and beginning to rain again when I left Sunday around noon.
Posted on: 2012/6/6 12:38
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2007/5/29 14:32 From SE PA - Montgomery County
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I don't know about Penns, but Fishing creek had awesome hatches this year. No fish for me to speak of, but friends caught a few on duns and spinners.
Posted on: 2012/6/6 14:08
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penns did jump really fast when we got all the rain....I live close to the boyscout camp. It rose over 2200 cfs in less than an hour!!
Posted on: 2012/6/6 17:54
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2009/1/11 23:54 From Pittsburgh
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The fishing for Green Drakes for me was good but after the jam and not on the Penn.
I have tie first time my own G Drakes (they worked on the first cast). Awesome. Attach file:  Fishing_Creek_Narrows_5-22-2012.jpg (196.84 KB) Brown_on_Green_Drake_Fishing_Creek_May22_2012.jpg (135.58 KB) Green_Drakes_trout_stomach_content_Fishing_Creek_May2012.jpg (99.05 KB)
Posted on: 2012/6/7 14:02
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