Fishing Big Moore's Run-Potter Cty ??

[johncasper]

Can anyone tell me about fishing Big Moore's Run in Potter ?
Species, quality, hot spots, water depth, etc.
John

 

[chuckytown]

Google produced this at http://www.patrout.com/:

Big Moores Run is a secluded freestone stream in the mountains of North Central Pennsylvania. We have wonderful Mayfly and Stonefly hatches, and Caddis are present most of the year. These conditions allow natural reproduction of Brook, Brown and Kanmloops Rainbow trout.

Looks like they pull out some beautiful trout, but you'll have to pay 150.00 to fish for a day at the preserve.

 

[troutbert]

That info is for a commercial, pay to fish operation. They stock big fish in their lake and stretch of stream.

You can also fish Big Moores Run in a state forest section upstream of this operation.

 

[tomgamber]

Looking at its location I'd say its good water.. the class A section 50% open and Like most streams flowing into the first fork up there, it fishes pretty well much of the year. Worth a look.

 

[eggman]

Unfortunately the lower sections have two "pay to fish perserves" where they have made a bunch of stream improvements, stock the crap out it and is closed to public fishing. If you go upstream onto the state forest land, they actually stock about a mile of it. It doesn't get many fish, which I guess is a good thing because the stream can and does support wild fish. I haven't fished it in years, but a buddy of mine does and he does pretty well on native brookies, with an occasional stocker thrown in.

The stream can be jumped across in most places and a hole of 2 feet is a deep one. You don't even need waders to fish it. This should be left off the stocking list because it's a true native brookie stream.

If I was making a trip up here, I'd forget Moores and stick to the First Fork.

 

[BrookieBuster101]

chuckytown wrote:
Google produced this at http://www.patrout.com/:

Big Moores Run is a secluded freestone stream in the mountains of North Central Pennsylvania. We have wonderful Mayfly and Stonefly hatches, and Caddis are present most of the year. These conditions allow natural reproduction of Brook, Brown and Kanmloops Rainbow trout.

Looks like they pull out some beautiful trout, but you'll have to pay 150.00 to fish for a day at the preserve.

how is a Kanmloops Rainbow trout different than a regular rainbow??

 

[tomgamber]

BrookieBuster101 wrote:

chuckytown wrote:
Google produced this at http://www.patrout.com/:

Big Moores Run is a secluded freestone stream in the mountains of North Central Pennsylvania. We have wonderful Mayfly and Stonefly hatches, and Caddis are present most of the year. These conditions allow natural reproduction of Brook, Brown and Kanmloops Rainbow trout.

Looks like they pull out some beautiful trout, but you'll have to pay 150.00 to fish for a day at the preserve.

how is a Kanmloops Rainbow trout different than a regular rainbow??

For one thing they grow much faster and larger then other strains of rainbows. C'mon you have google. Look it up. Now of course in this case they are using the name purely for marketing sake. But at least your question has been answered.

 

[pcray1231]

I've fished it before. Brookies in the headwaters above the private section. I wouldn't be shocked to find a brown or two, but I didn't catch any there.

It's worth a look, but there are a ton of similar streams around that area....