Allenberry Resort To Host Discussion on Yellow Breeches & Stream Bred Trout

[wildbrownyb245]

I've said it before many times...

I never fished the Run as a destination, but it was a FUN place to kill a few hours when I was in the area and either didn't feel like getting suited up or serious and going elsewhere.

It was a also a great "in-between" spot when I was fishing morning & evening "sessions" at the Letort or when it was freezing cold and fishing was the last thing on most folk's minds. It was always nice to know I could hop over to the Run, have a beer or two and a cigar and catch a few fish with a Tenkara rod before going out to dinner at a local restaurant.

It also provided a short session opportunity during weekends when other activities left little time to fish and it was a great Aberdeen Proving Ground for new flies. For example, I field tested and I caught a duck there on my newly created "French Fry Fly." 😉

For those reasons to me, it is a damn shame everything got screwed up at the Run. I'll really miss the fun I had there during my lifetime of fishing Southcentral PA.

Hey Bam

Sometime you hit the Letort swing into Carlisle for a George’s sub or the Hamilton Restaurant for a Hot Chee hot dog and gravy fries its yum yum

 

[Bamboozle]

Hey Bam

Sometime you hit the Letort swing into Carlisle for a George’s sub or the Hamilton Restaurant for a Hot Chee hot dog and gravy fries its yum yum

It may be before your time, but at one time there was a sub shop on 4th Street (or maybe it was 3rd Street?) between Front & Walnut in Boiling Springs. Maybe not as good as George's or the Hamilton, but it sure was convenient for lunch in those days when killing time at the Run between Letort "sessions.

I'd head over, grab a sandwich, park by the RR tracks at Mountain Road, eat lunch and tie flies while watching trains. After a while I'd take a nap, hit the Run for an hour and head back to the Letort and fish at least until 10:00 pm, then go out to eat.

In those days, about the only restaurant in town that would serve anything on the menu that late was called the "St. Charles Restaurant" on Pitt Street located where Cafe Bruges is today. You could walk in at close to 11:00 pm, order a steak dinner and they would make it for you like it was 5:00 pm... 👍

I guess it is somewhat coincidental that my favorite restaurant in town today is Cafe Bruges.

Good days & fun times!!

 

[wildbrownyb245]

It may be before your time, but at one time there was a sub shop on 4th Street (or maybe it was 3rd Street?) between Front & Walnut in Boiling Springs. Maybe not as good as George's or the Hamilton, but it sure was convenient for lunch in those days when killing time at the Run between Letort "sessions.

I'd head over, grab a sandwich, park by the RR tracks at Mountain Road, eat lunch and tie flies while watching trains. After a while I'd take a nap, hit the Run for an hour and head back to the Letort and fish at least until 10:00 pm, then go out to eat.

In those days, about the only restaurant in town that would serve anything on the menu that late was called the "St. Charles Restaurant" on Pitt Street located where Cafe Bruges is today. You could walk in at close to 11:00 pm, order a steak dinner and they would make it for you like it was 5:00 pm... 👍

I guess it is somewhat coincidental that my favorite restaurant in town today is Cafe Bruges.

Good days & fun times!!

That sounds like one hell of a day, let me guess the year was 1988.

 

[Bamboozle]

That sounds like one hell of a day, let me guess the year was 1988.

Close but probably in the 1990's...

 

[Nymph-wristed]

Oregon,
Sadly, the Little Lehigh no longer has the wild brown trout population that you may be recalling in Section 07upstream from the Heritage Area. I doubt that the Heritage stretch, Section 08, which wasn’t surveyed recently, has escaped this change. I never surveyed the Breeches or even saw the A-berry stretch.

+ 1 Little Lehigh is no longer a good example, more an analogue to what happens when a cold creek silts up and widens from development in the area.

 

[Bamboozle]

+ 1 Little Lehigh is no longer a good example, more an analogue to what happens when a cold creek silts up and widens from development in the area.

As I live in that area, I take particular pleasure in blaming Upper & Lower Macungie Townships, the Jaindl Family and Wawa for all of the sprawl in the area and the subsequent demise of the Little Lehigh wild trout fishery....

 

[TimMurphy]

Oregon,
Sadly, the Little Lehigh no longer has the wild brown trout population that you may be recalling in Section 07upstream from the Heritage Area. I doubt that the Heritage stretch, Section 08, which wasn’t surveyed recently, has escaped this change. I never surveyed the Breeches or even saw the A-berry stretch.

Dear Mike,

I was about 11 or 12 when close friends of my family moved from the apartment complex where we all grew up in Feasterville, to the wilds of Macungie, PA.

It, the housing developemnt, may very well have been the beginning of the end of the Lehigh Valley, but as a kid from Street Road in the "Ville it was paradise. We could walk out of the development down to the Little Lehigh and see nothing but fields and moo cows.

You could walk across a rickety old wooden bridge onto an active dairy farm and go right up to the milking pens. The farmer would let us city slickers pet the cows and calves and feed them hay by hand. Good times!

I still remember fishing there late May evenings when yellow bugs were buzzing around my head and fish were jumping everywhere but nothing I had with me and my Zebco 202 would interest them.

Our family friends eventually moved and bought a bar and made it a going place. Bob and Peggy's Country Tavern was the name. I could drive to it today on a dare, but back then it was at a crossroads of corn fields and just up from a concrete plant where we would go to play with their dog. It was the only building on the road besides the concrete plant!

Now, it's just some old stone building amidst 1000 acres of warehouses and townhomes, if it even exists at all.

Regards,

Tim Murphy , it's a wry 🙂