Recent Rain

Jeez. Boo hoo. Your dry fly fishing hasn't been great this year due to the rain. Life goes on. We were experiencing a severe drought in Pennsylvania and we still are in Berks County where I live even after all this rain.

There were wildfires a few miles from my house in the fall. I was worried about my well drying up. The recent rain has helped and I am not as worried anymore. It's nice not having to worry that the woods behind my house could burn down. The rain has been much needed in Pennsylvania. But.... the Green Drake hatch might be a bust this year. Boy this rain sucks.
Guess I should be more considerate of all the crazy rain were getting now, because the southeast part of the state had some wildfires 6 months ago? (which is typically drought season anyway)

Severe weather has spawned 7 tornados in PA so far this spring, causing lots of damage
One of which just happened today in Butler county, north of the city
Several areas getting hit with 2-3 inches of rain, causing major flooding.
Not to mention the heavy rains that caused severe flooding last week in Meyersdale PA, and much of Maryland.
Perhaps you should be more considerate of what all this "blessed" rain has been doing a lot more recently - to a much wider swath of the area
 
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Southeast PA has been in a drought for over a year now. We are still in a drought even after this rain. It isn't a "seasonal drought". If we didn't get much rain and we headed into summer as dry as we were there would have been a lot more fires. As I said, I had one very close to where I live and the drought got worse since.

Tornadoes are seasonal. They happen every year and are not the product of too much rain. Poor example.

I never would wish destruction on anything or anyone.

And your comments about the rain ( which have been many) are all about you and the hatches you are missing. It was never about flooding and destruction. I wouldn't have said anything if you were worried about that type of thing. That is understandable.

The waters of PA and the fish of PA have had some low water to deal with the last couple years. This rain makes them happy too.
 
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I live in Berks. This is as of last week. I'm sure it has improved more after the rain the last couple days. We didn't get any other rain since this came out other than yesterday and today. I guess I'm just CRAZY wanting rain.

I truly am done now with this. Everyone wants what benefits them. I understand too much rain is not good. I also understand too little is no good. It seems like it's just extreme either way lately. Wish it would just be normal for once.

I hope trout season gets better for everyone. It at least should help June fishing. Good luck!
 
I did 30 minutes of looking on the 'net and made a couple phone calls and found 2 good places out of state to go fishing for trout and bass. Good weather and water conditions. Will be spending 10 days or so enjoying the weather and fishing, just not in PA.
 
What the **** are you talking about? Having a fire close to your house is not living in fear. It is called reality. A little different than worrying about a tree that "could" fall on your house.

I'm done now. I personally am very happy it rained. I hope it rains more.
Neversink Mountain fire?
 
Southeast PA has been in a drought for over a year now. We are still in a drought even after this rain. It isn't a "seasonal drought". If we didn't get much rain and we headed into summer as dry as we were there would have been a lot more fires. As I said, I had one very close to where I live and the drought got worse since.

Tornadoes are seasonal. They happen every year and are not the product of too much rain. Poor example.

I never would wish destruction on anything or anyone.

And your comments about the rain ( which have been many) are all about you and the hatches you are missing. It was never about flooding and destruction. I wouldn't have said anything if you were worried about that type of thing. That is understandable.

The waters of PA and the fish of PA have had some low water to deal with the last couple years. This rain makes them happy too.
One more thing I do want to add here, then I'll be done with it too

Again, this is a fly fishing site
And there is nothing wrong with wishing for good conditions during the peak of the hatching activity for the year IMO
I take exception to your statement that its all about it ME, and my dry fly preference

I've got to know and fish with many of the good fishermen on this site over the years
And the majority of them also want to fish dry flies to rising trout.
I've got a nice circle of friends on here, that I share information with.
And likewise, them with me.
Lots of communication going on behind the scenes, trying to help each other to find the best fishing conditions that we all enjoy
And I think that is what Dave intended to do when he started this site.

Peace....
 
2 things can be true at the same time. This is a flyfishing discussion board, I don’t think anyone is going onto the paclimatechange forums complaining about the green drake hatch
I tried to find a paclimatechange forum to complain about Green Drakes. It didn't exist 😞
 
I was able to find a PA Stormfront website, but they seem to want to talk about white drakes a lot more than green drakes. Very odd bunch.



High temperature is in the 40s here in NY today. Definitely a weird May.
 
Is Penns at flood stage yet?
if not already it will be headed that way soon. maybe not technical flood stage but its starting the up and to the right curve
 

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We about to do some differential calculus on the USGS charts now?
Now that you mention it, it’s going up slower than I expected and the curve is flattened a bit. It seems that areas to the west got way more rain and the other stoner is above 4k due to it. I kinda expected penns to follow suit but it seems to have gotten less
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