Little Lehigh Creek, 12-2-14, Lehigh co.

[DrNymph]

Initially headed back to Tully, quickly hooked into two nice browns then they released water...Still being early in the day, decided to find somewhere else to fish.

Headed to the Little Lehigh around 10:30am, air temp was 35, water was low 40's, and it was snowing. Needless to say, I was the only one out there, which was great. Flows were just a bit above the mean.

Fished the FFO section and tossed the streamer first but only got some chasing fish, no strikes. Put the streamer rod away and fished a sz 18 frenchie under a small yarn indicator and hooked into brown that was about 14" in a small pocket. Hooked another slightly upstream but wasn't able to land it.

Saw a few palominos hanging around and decided to waste my time sight fishing to them. Casted upstream to them to watch them stare at my entire nymph arsenal and never take. Saw one sporadically rise and decided to throw some small dries without even an inspection. Decided to go crazy and throw a small hopper and to my surprise...it followed and took! My first palomino...on a hopper on the surface in the snow. Haha.

Anyway, that was the last fish of the day...headed home at 2:30p.

 

[salmonoid]

Love it - sometimes going with the most illogical offering results in a successful capture of a trout. Lightning trout on a hopper in a late fall snow shower is definitely memorable. I was up that way today but was stuck in meetings and had to leave right after they were done so I could be home tonight so the wife could go out. Otherwise, I would have been prospecting somewhere in the Lehigh Valley.

 

[thebassman]

Good to hear you had some luck. I was there the day before and like you could not get them to take anything I threw at them. It was not until I tied on a size 22 Griffiths Gnat that I found success.

 

[DrNymph]

Wow, how did I forget about a griffiths gnat?...

 

[albud1962]

I fished the ATW below the heritage section sunday by other means, otherwise i would have posted a detailed report. Decent number of stockies to be had in the lower water as Mike indicated.

 

[Chaz]

Don't ever think that the trout in the LL are smart, they will often take a big fly when all the little crap fails. Some of my biggest fish at LL over the years have been caught on big flies.

 

[CathyG]

3 summers in a row I've managed to get a paly at the LL, each time the fly had some orange in it.

Of course I never remember that and throw at least a dozen different flies before I hook one.

 

[Nympho]

I hit the FFO section of the Little Lehigh this afternoon and caught 5 rainbows on a #20 Al's Rat. I saw a surprising number of fish rising and think I could have caught fish on a Griffith Gnat as well but I was getting bites on the Rat consistently so I never switched.