streamerguy
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Fished the Shenango River yesterday morning from around 7ish to noon and then again today from I want to say around 10:30 to 2. Great fishing both days.
Yesterday started off abnormal. I arrived at the river to see a pretty good caddis hatch(nothing out of the ordinary) but the fish were rising everywhere! For some reason the fish on the Shenango don't really take advantage of the hatches there but yesterday they did. Lost track of how many trout I caught I dries, I think around 10. Tan caddis sz 16-14ish. I left my main dry fly box at home so I didn't have a good selection, and I eventually lost both of my flies(one to a fish, one to a tree) that I was having action on. The next fly I tried the color and size was off a little and I barely got any to rise. Frustrating. I then tied on a dropper with a sz 16 cased caddis larvae and picked up a few more. Also stopped by Cool Spring Creek for a half an hour(didn't have much time) and picked up one bow on a streamer. Also ran into fishingnoob there which was nice.
Today the caddis were still hatching but I saw very few rises, although there were a few. Nothing on dries, but got a few more trout on streamers.
Oh and I caught a LOT of natives both days. They attacked streamers aggressively, but I even got one on a dry and one on a nymph! Trout were a nice by-catch though ;-)
Water conditions were good both days(as always there usually) and a good amount of other people but not a whole lot of catching by others. Great two days on the water!
Yesterday started off abnormal. I arrived at the river to see a pretty good caddis hatch(nothing out of the ordinary) but the fish were rising everywhere! For some reason the fish on the Shenango don't really take advantage of the hatches there but yesterday they did. Lost track of how many trout I caught I dries, I think around 10. Tan caddis sz 16-14ish. I left my main dry fly box at home so I didn't have a good selection, and I eventually lost both of my flies(one to a fish, one to a tree) that I was having action on. The next fly I tried the color and size was off a little and I barely got any to rise. Frustrating. I then tied on a dropper with a sz 16 cased caddis larvae and picked up a few more. Also stopped by Cool Spring Creek for a half an hour(didn't have much time) and picked up one bow on a streamer. Also ran into fishingnoob there which was nice.
Today the caddis were still hatching but I saw very few rises, although there were a few. Nothing on dries, but got a few more trout on streamers.
Oh and I caught a LOT of natives both days. They attacked streamers aggressively, but I even got one on a dry and one on a nymph! Trout were a nice by-catch though ;-)
Water conditions were good both days(as always there usually) and a good amount of other people but not a whole lot of catching by others. Great two days on the water!
