evw659
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Time: 1030am - 8:30pm
Locations: 1) Below end of Tunnel Rd (1030-2) 2) Below Swift Run (3-6) 3) Upper Poe Paddy Area (630-830)
Weather: Partly cloudy early in the day then mostly cloudy later in the afternoon/evening. Air temps 63 late morning, 70ish afternoon, got chilly later in the evening, maybe 60 then.
Water: 440 cfs and a little brown, maybe 3' visibility. Water temp was 57 below end of Tunnel Rd around noon.
Hatches: There were some large spinner clouds of something around 16-18 below Tunnel Rd, blue quills is my best guess. Around Poe Paddy I saw some small sulphurs, assorted caddis, slates, cahills, and Gold Stones.
After 6pm: a lot of what I think were cream cahills (#14ish) came off, and some fish were on them. There was also a blackish colored spinner on the water (#14-16ish) that fish were taking. I couldn't identify it and I'd be curious to know what it was...Cornuta? blue quill?
some small olives and sulphurs were hatching as well.
The Fishing:
Below Tunnel Rd: Started out working the riffles and soft pockets on the far (shaded) bank with a #10 iso and bh pt variant. Missed several fish as I was working down, finally hooked and landed 1 in a shallow glide just a few feet from the bank, maybe 14" on the pt. Fished on down a good ways w/ no more hookups, missed a few. Didn't see any risers.
Below Swift Run: Nymphed the riffles and pocket water with a #8 gold stone above a bh pt variant and started to get into some fish, Biggest was about 15". My Brother caught a snag in some heavy pocket water that then started moving, then jumping, and I could see it was very nice one as I happened to be fishing very close. It jumped a couple more times and he lost it shortly after. Not a huge one, but it was heavy and 18" at least. Bummer. We fished down to the wire at the top of the c&r and decided to head back for a beer and regroup as many fisherman and a guide or 2 appeared. All fish took a gold stone.
Upper Poe Paddy: Found a nice, open pool with about 2 dozen fish rising. Rigged up the dry fly leader, crossed, and went upstream.Meanwhile, my brother stuck with nymphs and got a nice 16"er on a gold stone. I always try to just observe for a while prior to fishing dries. Spinners blanketed the water, cream cahills and I think small sulphurs and olives were coming off. The spinners had a blackish body, didn't have anything quite like that. I did have one spinner that I tied a while back and the abdomen was covered in mold, and it was black lol. Size was too big, but I tried that first, got a few refusals and 1 take.
Fish then seemed to key on either small Sulphur or Cahill emergers, or maybe olives, I really don't know. I'ts a little unfair to just blame the lack of what's in your box, but I really didn't have a good selection of dries/emergers. That's what happens when you tie day to day and don't tie anything prior to fishing hatches on Penn's I guess.
Ended up throwing on a #16 Sulphur emerger and picked up one small one. I may have done no better with a better selection of flies, but I don't mind that. Penn's is just a pleasure to observe and fish, even if you don't do that well.
Locations: 1) Below end of Tunnel Rd (1030-2) 2) Below Swift Run (3-6) 3) Upper Poe Paddy Area (630-830)
Weather: Partly cloudy early in the day then mostly cloudy later in the afternoon/evening. Air temps 63 late morning, 70ish afternoon, got chilly later in the evening, maybe 60 then.
Water: 440 cfs and a little brown, maybe 3' visibility. Water temp was 57 below end of Tunnel Rd around noon.
Hatches: There were some large spinner clouds of something around 16-18 below Tunnel Rd, blue quills is my best guess. Around Poe Paddy I saw some small sulphurs, assorted caddis, slates, cahills, and Gold Stones.
After 6pm: a lot of what I think were cream cahills (#14ish) came off, and some fish were on them. There was also a blackish colored spinner on the water (#14-16ish) that fish were taking. I couldn't identify it and I'd be curious to know what it was...Cornuta? blue quill?
some small olives and sulphurs were hatching as well.
The Fishing:
Below Tunnel Rd: Started out working the riffles and soft pockets on the far (shaded) bank with a #10 iso and bh pt variant. Missed several fish as I was working down, finally hooked and landed 1 in a shallow glide just a few feet from the bank, maybe 14" on the pt. Fished on down a good ways w/ no more hookups, missed a few. Didn't see any risers.
Below Swift Run: Nymphed the riffles and pocket water with a #8 gold stone above a bh pt variant and started to get into some fish, Biggest was about 15". My Brother caught a snag in some heavy pocket water that then started moving, then jumping, and I could see it was very nice one as I happened to be fishing very close. It jumped a couple more times and he lost it shortly after. Not a huge one, but it was heavy and 18" at least. Bummer. We fished down to the wire at the top of the c&r and decided to head back for a beer and regroup as many fisherman and a guide or 2 appeared. All fish took a gold stone.
Upper Poe Paddy: Found a nice, open pool with about 2 dozen fish rising. Rigged up the dry fly leader, crossed, and went upstream.Meanwhile, my brother stuck with nymphs and got a nice 16"er on a gold stone. I always try to just observe for a while prior to fishing dries. Spinners blanketed the water, cream cahills and I think small sulphurs and olives were coming off. The spinners had a blackish body, didn't have anything quite like that. I did have one spinner that I tied a while back and the abdomen was covered in mold, and it was black lol. Size was too big, but I tried that first, got a few refusals and 1 take.
Fish then seemed to key on either small Sulphur or Cahill emergers, or maybe olives, I really don't know. I'ts a little unfair to just blame the lack of what's in your box, but I really didn't have a good selection of dries/emergers. That's what happens when you tie day to day and don't tie anything prior to fishing hatches on Penn's I guess.
Ended up throwing on a #16 Sulphur emerger and picked up one small one. I may have done no better with a better selection of flies, but I don't mind that. Penn's is just a pleasure to observe and fish, even if you don't do that well.
