Muddy Creek, York County 12/26/16

[McSneek]

Celebrated the feast day of my patron saint with a brief outing on Muddy Creek - FFO section. Air temp was 37 - 39. Cloudy with intermittent light drizzle/mist. Fished from about 12:00pm - 3:00pm.No surprise - the stream is very low. I had a pretty slow afternoon. Three stocked fish and a small wild brown to hand. All on a white woolly bugger. Talked to a fellow angler shortly after I started who had a good day.

There has always been plenty of evidence of beavers in the lower FFO stretch but man are they active right now. Have felled quite a number of large trees and are really cleaning out a section of the woods. Lots of trails in and out of the water and one pretty big dam under construction. I expect it to get wiped out if we ever have a high water event again.

 

[Maurice]

They tend to be bank beavers on a stream that size, meaning they pick a deep area and just pile up brush for the "lodge".

Might head down there and check it out.

Thanks for the report.

 

[pete41]

one sight I will always treasure was watching a beaver swim in the Gallatin river in Montana during maximum run-off in mid june-hard to believe any creature could get out in midcurrent and survive but it didn't seem to notice.lol