Chester Creek, Delaware Co., 5/13/2010

[Van_Cleaver]

Mid morning til mid afternoon. Water tinged, and pushing, low fifties. Lots of tan caddis, and more midges; some fish stating to rise. Weather was sunny, and air temp 52-62. Fished the lower post contest stretch early on and had a nice chunk to myself for awhile. Caught a handful up to 15'' on caddis pupa and ants. Moved on when the chebbs and chum masters started appearing. On the third truck move, I parked, wondering while so many cars were already there. Locals who were waiting for the truck to arrive, informed me the stocking had been canceled. I didn't know or care, but informed them there were plenty of fish downstream near the "meat hole", and they all promptly left. The first riffle produce two rainbows in short order, and that was directly in front of where the cars had been parked. I missed a couple more from a shallow, fast run and worked downstream to find a gorgeous nymphing run. The top of it (really fast water) produced this likely holdover brown of 13'', a great fighter on the three wt.

Took several more twitching the flies slightly on the drift. Many of the fish had been hooked before, telling me someone else was likely protecting this spot, as well. On the way back up I took another rainbow from the shallow run where I had missed a few earlier. To top it off, two more from the first rifle, and three from the run above that, about 75' from my truck. The best fishing was from 1-2:30 PM under a bright sun! Another great day, and like almost everywhere I've fished in Del Co., another stream with plenty of trout.
A small but productive riffle:

 

[mute]

I need to hit up chester this week. Good report Fred.

 

[Fredrick]

mute wrote:
I need to hit up chester this week. Good report Fred.

Mute unless his name is Fred to this is not my report

But nice report Van........ Reading your reports almost makes me want to go hit up some stockies :-D

 

[Van_Cleaver]

LOL! My real name is Frederick Van Cleve Miller for the record. Oh, and I have a fly fishing problem!

 

[feathersnfins]

Fredricks name is fred but he has a lot more than just a fly fishing problem. Hitting up the brodhead and bushkill today. Hoping for lots o bugs. Will post.

 

[Fredrick]

For the record my Name is Fredrick Conrad Dewees IV and I also have a addiction to Fly Fishing 😛 Does anyone have a 12 step program that I can do because my girlfriend wants me to seek help.

 

[skiltonian]

step 1- admit you have a problem
step 2 - get engaged to your GF
step 3 - get married
step 4 - have a kid
step 5 - get no sleep and get sh!t on your hands
step 6 - relapse and fish until the wife #OOPS#es too much again
step 7 - spend more time with family
step 8 - work and be a Dad
step 9 - relapse and fish until the wife #OOPS#es too much again
step 10- - work and be a Dad
step 11 - relapse and fish until the wife #OOPS#es too much again
step 12 - find the right balance to work, be a Dad and husband, and fish


the alternative is to just go with it and move out west!

 

[skiltonian]

or you can call fishing and playing on the internet "research" :roll:

 

[Fredrick]

Well I already have steps 1,4 and 5 taken care off