Penn's Creek Centre County 4-27th-4-30th

[grobe33]

Just returned home from 4 tough day's of fishing on Penn's. The water is very low, temperature's didn't get past 50 degrees where we were fishing. The bug activity was OFF THE HOOK. Every day at 2:00pm the water was blanketed with Sulphurs. Add in tan caddis, Grey Fox, March Brown's, midges and lot's of spinners and you have yourself A LOT of bugs. We fished in the Catch and Release section for the most part. The nymph fishing was very challenging. Usually we pick up fish on stonefly patterns but on this trip that wasn't the case. A #14 Green Copper John was the fly of choice for my brothers and I. I found out today that I would of had more luck cruising around with a Big March Brown Dry Fly, I got into some decent action this morning blind casting into the pocket water. I didn't think the Spinner Fall was that good. The bugs were there, but the risers were not, at least not where we were. I have scene that stream go crazy and it was far from that the 4 nights we fished. It was very disappointing to see that many bugs hatch all day long and have limited top water action in the Catch and Release Section. I think my earlier trip to Penn's this year got my expectations to high, 4 day's of "normal fishing" put me back into my place real quick. More detail by day on the blog.

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[pcray1231]

Pretty sure I saw you guys. Was lookin for my buddy, and you informed me that he was fishing his fly out of a tree. I said "yep, that sounds like him." Later I was fishing a riffle above you and ended up fishing my fly out of a tree as well, probably looked pretty funny.

My trip and pics in a separate post above. Overall I was happy with the fishing. There were tough periods, and periods where you couldn't keep em off the hook. I figured out by the end that MB nymphs in the heavy pockets worked very good during the MB hatch, whereas you figured out the dries musta worked there too. The evenings were generally good for topwater action, not a ton of risers, but enough, and easy enough to catch when you found em.

 

[grobe33]

It's a small world! Yep I remember, I hope your buddy got his fly out lol. It sounds like we had similar experiences on Penn's. I know one thing for sure and you mentioned on your post, the fish in the 15+ inch class were very numerous, more so then in the past. I also think that each riffle and tailout fishes different throughout the day. I walked down one of the braids during the massive sulphur hatch and had a few fish rising. A couple 100 yards up stream in the Broadwater nothing was taking those duns. It seemed like the pocket water was ticket during the day, I would say a March Brown Dry Fly with a March Brown dropper would of been the ticket, too bad we didn't chat more along the stream to figure that out lol. My brothers will be up there till Sunday, I am anxious to hear how they do.

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