Little Juniata, Blair County, 5/12/11

JoeB27

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Fished the Little J from the first trestle in Rothrock State Forest up to the second trestle with pretty good success. The J was down to a nice level but still running fast so had to be careful wading.

Caught a couple browns on a black sparkle pupa then after examining a couple of rocks found a good bit of small dark brown mayfly nymphs, March Browns I suspect and a couple of the tan sulphur nymphs. Switched to a size 14 beadhead pheasant tail and a size 14 tan sulphur nymph with a brown wing case. Immediately, hooked into four browns in the back channel where the first island is. Thought I had the killer fly for the day but things slowed down for awhile. Caught a few more during the course of the day. Finished with a nice size rainbow. All took the sulphur nymph.

Fished from 10:30am till 6pm. Tan caddis were coming off sporatically throughout the day with a few Grey Foxes, I think, mixed in here and there.

Saw a few fish raise in the pool just below the 2nd trestle. Thru a tan caddis at them but no luck.

Couldn't stay till dark this time but hopefully next trip.
 
Joe,
Good report - thanks. And welcome to the PAFF forums. Maybe you've got some future fishing buddies there in that avatar?
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Thanks. Those "attack" pugs are afraid of water so I think fishing buddies isn't the cards. ;-)
 
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