pcray1231
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Well, it's been a summer of very few outings. But what I've had have been awesome. A few great spring trips around PA, then Switzerland, a charter trip on the ocean, etc.
Got back out there today in good old eastern PA with a local friend I haven't fished with since the jam. SE PA but north of Blue Mountain. Not exactly an unknown stream, it's an ATW with a class A section. But it was new to both me and my buddy despite being in a general area we've fished often. Always just seemed to go somewhere else. Guess it's that ATW tag that turned us off. We fished both the ATW section and the class A. The latter was really small and tight but had some brookies. The ATW section fished really well.
We shouldn't have passed it by. We had a great day. If you count every single fish, we probably topped 100 between us. That said, over half were pinky sized yearlings we were trying to avoid, they hit like every cast and were a bit annoying. Not counting those, we still had 40+ respectable fish between us. Bout half were browns in the 7-10" range and half brookies in the 4-9" range. I also caught a single stocker, a rainbow around 11 or 12".
Pictures don't do it justice. I wasn't good with the camera today. Didn't take scenery pics, only took fish pics early in the day before it got hot, then I was too busy! But here they are anyway. Get past the pinky sized ones at the beginning, I was thinking they might fit in the next "smallest fish" thread, then realized there were a billion of them, lol. Most of the "respectable" fish were in the same class as the bigger browns and brookies you see here. Only took pics of a few of those.
http://s58.photobucket.com/user/pcray1231/media/8-25-2013/IMG_0442_zpsaff22558.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0
Not bad for late August!!! And looks like the next generation is doing fine in this one.
Got back out there today in good old eastern PA with a local friend I haven't fished with since the jam. SE PA but north of Blue Mountain. Not exactly an unknown stream, it's an ATW with a class A section. But it was new to both me and my buddy despite being in a general area we've fished often. Always just seemed to go somewhere else. Guess it's that ATW tag that turned us off. We fished both the ATW section and the class A. The latter was really small and tight but had some brookies. The ATW section fished really well.
We shouldn't have passed it by. We had a great day. If you count every single fish, we probably topped 100 between us. That said, over half were pinky sized yearlings we were trying to avoid, they hit like every cast and were a bit annoying. Not counting those, we still had 40+ respectable fish between us. Bout half were browns in the 7-10" range and half brookies in the 4-9" range. I also caught a single stocker, a rainbow around 11 or 12".
Pictures don't do it justice. I wasn't good with the camera today. Didn't take scenery pics, only took fish pics early in the day before it got hot, then I was too busy! But here they are anyway. Get past the pinky sized ones at the beginning, I was thinking they might fit in the next "smallest fish" thread, then realized there were a billion of them, lol. Most of the "respectable" fish were in the same class as the bigger browns and brookies you see here. Only took pics of a few of those.
http://s58.photobucket.com/user/pcray1231/media/8-25-2013/IMG_0442_zpsaff22558.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0
Not bad for late August!!! And looks like the next generation is doing fine in this one.