Brodhead Creek, PA, 12/13/20

[dennisl]

This is for the C&R section by Analomink.

110 CFS @ Analomink
Water temp in the mid 40s
Air temp in the low 50s

Overcast
Gin-clear water, waist to chest deep in spots

Fished from 9am til just before sunset. No luck. I saw one guy catch a small fish in some fast riffles. There were a handful of other fishermen around.

Midges and what looked like tricos (is that possible this time of year?) were hatching late morning but no rises.

Turning over rocks revealed a bunch of sz 14-16 mayfly nymphs and some tiny tiny cased caddis.

I tried pheasant tails, caddis, isos, streamers. Nothing did the trick. Perhaps my bulky indicator scared the fish away. Next time I'll throw a midge on...

110 CFS in this part of the stream actually feels pretty fast. I had trouble getting my flies down to the bottom in the deep parts.

 

[Rainier42]

Was there a couple of weeks ago and same. also tried below the bridge and caught 1 Brown in the large pool below the RR bridge; spent time below the big pool boulder hopping and didn't catch anything or have any hits.

 

[dennisl]

Rainier42 wrote:
Was there a couple of weeks ago and same. also tried below the bridge and caught 1 Brown in the large pool below the RR bridge; spent time below the big pool boulder hopping and didn't catch anything or have any hits.

I wonder where they're at...

 

[Millsertime]

Rainier42 wrote:
spent time below the big pool boulder hopping and didn't catch anything or have any hits.

#Metoo about 2 weeks ago. Fished prime conditions below RR bridge in all the pocket water. Not one strike! Blew my mind.

 

[supervdl]

easy answer it gets an insane amount of pressure

 

[Nymph-wristed]

Probably water temp and post spawn general malaise.... The water temp was mid-40s when I had a good couple of days in mid-November. I have a hard time believing it was mid-40s on 12/13, but I was not there, of course 😉

 

[dennisl]

Nymph-wristed wrote:
Probably water temp and post spawn general malaise.... The water temp was mid-40s when I had a good couple of days in mid-November. I have a hard time believing it was mid-40s on 12/13, but I was not there, of course 😉

I didn't measure it myself, went by the USGS meter in Analomink

 

[Nymph-wristed]

Yeah, I saw that after I posted! It was day two or three of a relative warm up also, so in theory something should have been awake. I guess the wild fish just wanted to be difficult....