Spring Creek, Centre County, 4/25/2016

TYoung

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I fished Spring Creek behind the water treatment plant in Bellefonte. I fished from around 12PM to 3PM. I did well euro nymphing. Caught most of my fish on an olive nymph. I saw some tan caddis on the water, with the occasional splashy rise to them.

Even though the water level is statistically quite low, I though that the flow was good for nymphing. At normal flows, this section would be difficult to wade for some people. There was more people there than what I though there would be. When I took a break to eat lunch around 1PM, there was five cars in the small parking area.

I ended up catching my best ever Spring Creek Brown right in the whole that runs along the wall right near where you enter the creek. It was a 15 inch beaut. It fought real hard, and I had a hard time bringing the fish to the surface. At the end I ended up catching 7 or 8 brownies. Most of the fish were holding along the far bank in spots were there are bushes growing at the base of the stone bank.

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Nice report and great looking brown. I really like all the red on the bottom of the tail fin, and the rich coloration typical of larger Spring Creek Browns.
 
3wt7X wrote:
Nice report and great looking brown. I really like all the red on the bottom of the tail fin, and the rich coloration typical of larger Spring Creek Browns.

and the red spot on the adipose. how unusual !

nice fish.

 
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