Hammer Creek Lancaster County 5/21/08

[salvelinusfontinalis]

Hammer Creek is one of the better wild brook trout streams in the County but not the best. It also is stocked from 322 upstream. The day i fished it, it was off color due to the recent rains but had cleared up quickly from the day before when it was a muddy fast flowing wreck. Sulphurs where coming off in the early morning into the afternoon and i did see a few fish rising. Unfortunatly those fish were browns and were also aware of my presence around them. I did catch a few stocked rainbows and a few fat wild brook trout. I also fished down in to the preserve and had missed a few stockers downthere. Seems that alot of the ATW still have tons of stockers in them in Lancaster County. Go gettem and help those wildies!

 

[Wmass]

Hey SALVE I fished Hammer last week, Tuesday I think and it was good. At hammer I hooked up two fish, one wild brookie and a stockie but they were long releases. I also fished "the secret" and caught three beautiful wild brookies and spooked alot more, good to know that the population is still healthy. Thanks again for sharing your local knowledge.

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

Sweet Wmass :-D Ya me and Spector fished the secret about 4-5 days ago and caught 3 brookies in the 10 inch range and he caught one that was about 12 inches :-o That stream is doing very well. They sure are pretty. No problem on the info Wmass anytime you want to pick my brain about streams over here just ask bro. :-D