French Ck & Valley Ck, Chester County, 3/26/2010

skiltonian

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Started off this morning at French Creek at Pughtown & Shedder and worked my way upstream to the beginning of the FFO section. Flows were at about 150 CFS with light rain and windy where air temps were in the middle 40s. Fished nymphs under an indicator and wound up with eight fish from 8:30 am to 11:00 am.
Biggest fish in picture below.

Got to Valley around 11:30 and fished from the turnpike bridge down to the covered bridge within the park.
Started off drifting and swinging nymphs, picking up three, until I got past the iron bridge where I switched to dry flies to go after the risers. BWO’s size 18-22 were randomly coming off and there was some mayflys the fish were also targeting (either quill gordon or dark Hendrickson) . Got two more on drys and called it a day, after meeting a fellow site member, Bam. Flows were dropping from the upper 60s cfs and air temps got up to the upper 40s and partly cloudy.
 

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sounds like a fun time, and nice fish!
 
Caught up with Skiltonian on the stream today. I arrived at Valley around noon and covered a lot of water throwing streamers. Picked up 3 and missed a few. Around 2 or 3 the sun came out and small BWOs started coming off. I ended up with double digit fish on top over the next couple hours. Not prepared to fish dries due to wind and cold air temps this morning, I ended up forcing 6lb fishing line through a size 18 parachute... luckily they were rising in broken water and weren't too turned off from the line. I ended the day with two more nymphing near the iron bridge. One of my most productive days on Valley.

A few cell phone pics
 

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I hit Valley as well today from 3pm to 4pm. There was a light olive hatch happening as well as some caddis comming off in the riffles. I fished dries and picked up 2.
 
Is that second fish foul hooked with the dropper fly? Not a criticism...just curious. Beautiful markings on it.
 
It is Steve. I was stripping fast so I'm not sure if he missed the bugger or was off on the dropper.
 
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