Lycoming creek, Lycoming county 5-10

[1hook]

Fished the delayed harvest around " Powys curve". The stream was clear and the water level was normal for this time of year. Didn't take a temp but felt cold, guessing the recent rains didn't help anything.

It was a dreary rainy afternoon. Saw a few random bugs( sulpher/ marchbrown/caddis)but nothing major. The fish were rising sporadically but I could never figure out exactly what they were taking. Did see a few bwo on the surface so maybe that was it.

I was able to land 2 on a march brown parachute, couldn't resist throwing some type of big bug at them. One was a particularly nice Brookie.

Picked a few others up on stone fly nymphs. Only fished from about 12-3 before the cold got to me, that's a tough area to fish without being up to your waste in water

 

[Reeder]

I fished Lycoming yesterday and today. The creek is in great shape. March Browns size 8-10 have been hatching from 3-8pm with the heaviest concentrations being from 5-730. I have caught some heavy trout on them. Size 14 Tan Caddis afternoon into the evening. And the first big sulphur hatch started tonight around 830. Size 14 and 16 in a wide range of colors...pink, red, bright yellow and a pale cream color. Stretches of water that appear dead throughout the day started boiling right at dark. I got a couple decent photos of them, and even managed to snatch an emerging sulphur off the water and get a short video of it fluttering its wings and trying to crawl out of its shuck. I will try to post a few pictures when I get a chance.

 

[1hook]

Good deal, I'd love to see that sulpher video, been tying last chance cripples for them lately

 

[troutbert]

Pink and red sulphurs?

There might be some other species mixed in there in addition to sulphurs.

Which is a good thing. It's nice to see a good diversity of insect life in the streams.

 

[Reeder]

I believe they were female spinners...

 

[Reeder]

I did some research and I think what I saw with along with the sulphurs were Epeorus vitreus. I came across a post from Krayfish on here from quite a while ago that explained the difference pretty well. I always just lumped them all together as sulphurs.