French 2-17, Big Spring 2-18, Letort 2-19

[SulphurKing]

Good morning.

I had a long weekend to myself. You young dads know that any results while fishing under these circumstances are good enough...

Fished French on 2-17. There were a few other guys around throughout the afternoon. No surface activity but ended up doing ok on a streamer. Talked to a couple other guys and nobody was doing much good.

Big Spring on 2-18. Fished from about noon to about 4 PM. Fished the ditch. I don't know why. That is a frustrating experience every time I do it but I can't seem to give it up. Around 2 some midges started popping off but not much surface activity. Avoided the skunk with a couple brookies and was toyed with by a couple more. I probably should have fished the other part of the stream. The wind was gusty making the perfect presentation required to fish the Ditch almost impossible.

Letort on 2-19. Easily the best day. Caught a few of those beautiful browns on dry BWO. So much for the snow storm of the year/decade/century. Though the sun seemed to be keeping the hatch and the rises down a bit.

Overall, more trout than diapers so that's pretty good.

 

[Fishidiot]

SK,
Where is "French Creek"? There are a bunch of streams with this name.

Normally, we ask that reports here in the Stream Reports forum cover only individual streams and note the stream/county/date format. It's not a big deal and we'll leave up your thread - in the future, please note the format for reports used in other threads.

 

[SulphurKing]

Sorry. I was trying to save paper - or postings space.

I fished French Creek in Chester County. The Letort is in County and Big Spring in County.

I should have also mentioned that I fished the fly-only stretches of French and Letort.

I'll do better next time...

 

[LoPan]

Nice to see you had some activity. Did they just stock French? That was always an April to early June stream. Too bad. Its pretty up in the Kimberton area.

 

[SulphurKing]

The Commission web site said that they stocked French late in the week before I fished it on Friday. There wasn't much evidence of it though. I didn't try the usual stockie strategies when it came to flies and so maybe I just wasn't offering what they were looking for. There was no (and I mean NO) surface activity. The one Brown trout that came to hand looked too good to be a fresh stockie so I'm thinking maybe he had been in the stream a while. Hopefully the fish they put in will settle in and provide better fishing over the next couple of months.