Bugs are starting

[dc410]

Stopped to check out a stream in Central PA today. Saw a bunch of Little Brown stoneflies crawling all over the streamside rocks. I’m not totally sure on the big mayfly … it was a real solid size 12 bug. I am leaning real hard toward a slate drake but it seems about two months early to me?

 

[redietz]

Definitely not a slate drake. Maybe a quill gordon?

 

[dc410]

I don’t know much about Quill Gordons, could very well be.

 

[pcray1231]

Def not a slate drake. Wings aren't mottled.

Yes I think quill gordon.

 

[afishinado]

Def not a slate drake. Wings aren't mottled.

Yes I think quill gordon.

Yeah, I agree, Quill Gordon.

 

[krayfish2]

The forsythia bushes popped in the last 2 days. That typically coincides with the start of the Hendrickson hatch. I'm near the septic tank known as the state capitol.

If you are looking near state college latitude, you have to wait another 7-10 days and 15-20 up closer to the north border.

 

[Sylvaneous]

No hope of forsythia in the offing up in the Great White North (literally, white. Right now) So, a while yet. But yes, that is a Quill Gordon. Awfully early.

 

[dryflyguy]

I caught a few fish on grannoms on a central pa stream last week.
So not surprised to see a quill gordon

 

[troutbert]

I caught a few fish on grannoms on a central pa stream last week.
So not surprised to see a quill gordon

Did you see grannoms?

Or did you just catch trout on a grannom pattern?

 

[dryflyguy]

Did you see grannoms?

Or did you just catch trout on a grannom pattern?

A few were hatching in one certain section of a stream that I'm sure you know quite well.
Two years ago - after a very mild winter - I saw them hatching there on St Patricks Day

 

[troutbert]

A few were hatching in one certain section of a stream that I'm sure you know quite well.
Two years ago - after a very mild winter - I saw them hatching there on St Patricks Day

Dryflyguy, thanks for the info.

March madness!! The hatch charts are as busted as the NCAA tournament brackets.

The old hatch charts typically listed grannoms as about last week of April, first week of May.

 

[Millsertime]

Forsythia is starting in lower Pocono's already. Fished a local Class A on Friday afternoon and browns were already looking up and taking BWO's. Not a ton of BWO's floating down but enough to get them to surface and me to tie on a dry...

 

[falcon]

There were Quill Gordons on the Brodheads about a week ago during the warm spell. No rising fish however.

 

[dubthethorax]

BWOs were coming off the EB Perk in Perkasie for the past week or so. Even saw a few flying around Saturday afternoon in the cold.

 

[Classicriver]

Used to look for Grannoms on the Little J and then Penns starting about the middle of April. Best J hatch I ever enjoyed was something like April 17th. Flies hatching from 8 AM and still going at 5:30 PM! Wish it happened like that more often.

I do remember one crazy early spring better than ten years ago when the Hendricksons were full on on Penns Creek in something like the second or third week of March. I recall a lot of seventy-degree days in March that year down in the Cumberland Valley.

Catskill rivers are high and getting higher. Saw a few chimarras and early stones yesterday, and I saw stones in early March, so no doubt you should have some fishing in Central PA now. A friend was headed down to Penns Creek this week. Don't know if he is back yet.

 

[Mike]

Hendricksons were out in force and the fish were taking on Sunday afternoon in SE Pa.

 

[DGC]

Still rather spotty for bugs yesterday on LJ. More midges than olives. A few lonely Hendricksons, but the risers I worked wanted little stuff. Not that many risers, really. Have to search. But now LJ is 1K cfs after rain last night.

 

[fritz]

BWOs and Hendricksons on the Yellow Breeches yesterday. They overlapped for about a half hour.

 

[JeffP]

I saw a bunch of craneflies on lower Middle Creek in Lancaster County.

 

[TimS]