Sharknado5
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I stayed in a cabin near Ross Run, it was supposed to be a mostly fishing week but turned out to be more of a family vacation week. Pine was raging the week before I got there but was down to about 1000 CFS (2.5 feet)on Monday and dropped to 500 CFS by Saturday. Weather was great for vacationing, swimming, kayaking but a bit too much for fishing with bluebird clear days, mostly with temps from mid to hi 80s. Water temps high 50s to almost 70 in the later afternoons the last couple days.
The big story was no bugs. I fished for an hour in one or two places per day different times of day from Slate Run down to below Ross Run. The fly shop guys said there were March Browns and Gray Foxes around but I saw very few. Maybe one Fox and a sulfur about every hour. And almost no rising fish. A few here and there in the mid day faster water. But there were a lot of fishermen especially the last few days. Various theories were proposed about the lack of bugs mostly about the drought last fall.
But spin fishermen seemed to be cleaning up, some with lures and some with mealworms I was told.
Driving home Sunday along First Fork in Potter county I saw a few trout rise in the fly project below Wharton and a few what looked like sulfurs taking off. So I fished open water above Wharton from 6:30 till 7:30 PM and was encouraged by pretty regular appearance of yellow sulfurs about size 14 and another light-colored fly a bit bigger. And I'm pretty sure some Green Drakes. They were big with greenish tint to the wings and bodies. Only saw them in the air, the couple flies I saw floating took off immediately. A few trout were rising, they seemed smallish and I caught 2, both brookies about 8 inches. They were quite colorful and I wonder if they were natives. They seemed kinda big for natives, but I don't think the fish commission stocks brookies in FF. The stream had a pretty good flow, I was surprised the gauge only reads 100 CFS. I'll try to get back to FF later this week.
The big story was no bugs. I fished for an hour in one or two places per day different times of day from Slate Run down to below Ross Run. The fly shop guys said there were March Browns and Gray Foxes around but I saw very few. Maybe one Fox and a sulfur about every hour. And almost no rising fish. A few here and there in the mid day faster water. But there were a lot of fishermen especially the last few days. Various theories were proposed about the lack of bugs mostly about the drought last fall.
But spin fishermen seemed to be cleaning up, some with lures and some with mealworms I was told.
Driving home Sunday along First Fork in Potter county I saw a few trout rise in the fly project below Wharton and a few what looked like sulfurs taking off. So I fished open water above Wharton from 6:30 till 7:30 PM and was encouraged by pretty regular appearance of yellow sulfurs about size 14 and another light-colored fly a bit bigger. And I'm pretty sure some Green Drakes. They were big with greenish tint to the wings and bodies. Only saw them in the air, the couple flies I saw floating took off immediately. A few trout were rising, they seemed smallish and I caught 2, both brookies about 8 inches. They were quite colorful and I wonder if they were natives. They seemed kinda big for natives, but I don't think the fish commission stocks brookies in FF. The stream had a pretty good flow, I was surprised the gauge only reads 100 CFS. I'll try to get back to FF later this week.
