evw659
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Made it up to the state college area for a couple nights camping with family, and we headed to fishing creek on saturday.( We also struggled on penns one afternoon, and fished the ljr on the way home in the snow). We fished fishing creek about noon till 5pm or so. We also checked out the Logan branch after.
Weather/water conditions: air temp was about 55-60 or so when we were fishing. Strong front came in during the afternoon with brief heavy showers. Winds were light and variable. flow appeared a little on the low side and was fairly clear, but overall at a pretty nice level for Nymphing or throwing dries. I didn't take a water temp, but it felt like about 52 or so.
Hatches: not much overall. I spotted a few sulphurs coming off and midges but that's about it. I'm sure there was much more hatch activity later in the evening though.
The fishing: overall it was tough. I started out with a couple nymphs, but I found it difficult to get close enough to a lot of the holding water to tight line, so I ended up fishing a dry dropper rig most of the time. I caught about 5 or 6 small native brookies and 1 small brown on a sz 14 dark nymph when it was raining, but that was about it. We moved to another stretch with a lot of great pocket water where I tight lined. I made contact with a lot of fish in this stretch, but the takes were very subtle and quick. In the productive pocket water that is so prevalent on this stream, it seemed like you really needed to have a perfect drift as well as a tight connection to your flies to receive and detect strikes. I found that when I missed one fish in a great run, it was kind of game over, move on to the next run. To me, this is about as technical as it gets when it comes to tight line nymphing. Over about 2/3 of a mile, my brothers landed I think 1 a piece and I got 0. Interesting experience on an absolutely beautiful stream.
Weather/water conditions: air temp was about 55-60 or so when we were fishing. Strong front came in during the afternoon with brief heavy showers. Winds were light and variable. flow appeared a little on the low side and was fairly clear, but overall at a pretty nice level for Nymphing or throwing dries. I didn't take a water temp, but it felt like about 52 or so.
Hatches: not much overall. I spotted a few sulphurs coming off and midges but that's about it. I'm sure there was much more hatch activity later in the evening though.
The fishing: overall it was tough. I started out with a couple nymphs, but I found it difficult to get close enough to a lot of the holding water to tight line, so I ended up fishing a dry dropper rig most of the time. I caught about 5 or 6 small native brookies and 1 small brown on a sz 14 dark nymph when it was raining, but that was about it. We moved to another stretch with a lot of great pocket water where I tight lined. I made contact with a lot of fish in this stretch, but the takes were very subtle and quick. In the productive pocket water that is so prevalent on this stream, it seemed like you really needed to have a perfect drift as well as a tight connection to your flies to receive and detect strikes. I found that when I missed one fish in a great run, it was kind of game over, move on to the next run. To me, this is about as technical as it gets when it comes to tight line nymphing. Over about 2/3 of a mile, my brothers landed I think 1 a piece and I got 0. Interesting experience on an absolutely beautiful stream.
