Spring Creek; Centre County, April 03 & 04

wbranch

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Started fishing at noon on Wednesday. First left turn off of Buffalo Run Road. Extremely windy. Very strong gusts. White caps on the creek. Landed five on #14 Frenchie and #14 Pink SS. Caught two big suckers, one was so big I had to measure it. It was just under 23". Quit at 6:00. When I took my waders off my right foot was wet. Today started at Benner area at 9:00. Tight line nymphed from about 150' below the bridge below the hatchery all the way down to the start of that long flat pool. Very slow. Only took one 10" brown on a #16 BH Hares Ear.

Walked down to the slow pool and saw fish rising. Put on a piece of 5X and 3' of 6X and a #18 Baetis. Guy sbove me was in the head of the pool where there still riffles. He smoked them. Maybe he landed over a dozen. Me not so good. The fish in the flat water rose sporadically. Landed just four. Saw a couple good rises that should of been at least 12" trout. Also saw a spattering of Grannoms. Guy above me was down where Spring empties onto BEC and he said there were tons of Granoms and dozens of rising fish. Nicer day until about 3:00 when the wind picked up and it got cooler.
 
Going there tomorrow for a few days - first time for me - so thanks for the details in the report - very timely, although its going to rain all day!
 
wednesday. Fished 1:30-3 off Spring creek road. BWOs were heavy. Fish were on them. Rising in the usual places. Long flat pools only have smallish fish. The better fish were in and off of the broken water. They are starting to get picky compared to last week, keying in on movement and presentation and pattern needs to be just right. Even the large fish were feeding. Its been a good olive season for me. Bring on the grannoms!
 
giggy,

I have found that if you nymph in the conventional manner with one or two flies and split shot, or some other weight, above the flies the flies seem to pickup a lot of algae and other organic matter from the rocks. I run a drop shot rig with two flies in tandem and a piece of leader tied to the bend of the bottom fly on which I put my split shot. I make a simple overhand knot towards the end of the tippet so when roll casting you aren't flicking off the split shot. I get far less gunk on my flies when set up this way.
 
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