Oil Creek, Venango Co, 6-16-18

[Prospector]

Time Fished: 8am - 10am
Weather Conditions: started out cloudy & 55 but turned to sunny and 65
Water Conditions: Clear, 62 Degrees, 132 cfs which is very low
Insects: Sz 18 Tan Caddis were in the streamside brush in good numbers but none on the stream. I saw what appeared to be 2 sulphurs hatching

I fished the open water with an old friend. We walked quite a ways from the vehicle before starting to fish (maybe 3/4 of a mile). We both fished sub surface since there was no rising (saw only 8-10 rises in 2 hours). I caught a fish in the first 10 minutes and while I was fighting it 2 other fisherman came into the hole. One stood 30 feet above me and the other 30 feet below me.

So there we were, 4 guys standing within 30 yards of each other with 3/4 of a mile of stream devoid of people. Obviously this put a cramp in my style. Swinging wet flies when you can’t move is a challenge. So I changed flies and stayed put and had strikes on nearly everything I put on but not many strikes on any one fly.

I caught 2 on soft hackles and my buddy caught none but he had 2 break him off. We left a little premature so I guess maybe it pays to crowd people.

 

[salvelinus]

Obviously those two haven't read the etiquette thread in the general forum.

 

[CRB]

That stream always has those idiots.
I remember one year fishing petroleum center with my wife I caught 2 she 1 and then the guys fishing 1/4 mile up cam down to fish with in 30' of my wife and me. We left after she tangled lines I cut his fly off before leaving.

 

[SmoothOperator]

Every year I run into a couple ignorant jag offs up at Oil Creek.......... Usually from the outskirts of Titusville...... Got their license pinned to a beer hat and throwing door hinges with a spinning rod with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth....Unfortunately that's my "home "stream