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On Saturday, after some creative planning, Spectorfly and Slay12345 made plans with me to fish the Upper Tully and Wyomissing Creek on Sunday. Spectorfly wouldnt be able to make the Upper Tully.
Slay picked me up around 6 am and we headed off to the Upper Tully. We arrived around 6:30 and i was nervous because of how much i talked this stream up. But this stream always produces some fish and i know it very well.
In the parking area i gave Slay a beautiful wooden carved fly box full of dry flies. (Box not included). ;-) I told him that nymphs and scuds will catch fish and thats what we were going to use. There was a thread on nymphing by Evanmart recently. My answer to that is what i told Slay. In my experience, if your fishing for less pressured wild trout, there is NO wrong way to nymph fish. Dead drift it off or on the bottom, swing it and then twitch it upstream back to you slowly but with fast little twitches of the rod tip. When its over Letort trout, my answers way different. The above Technique is what we were going to use.
Once down at the stream i caught 3 wild browns in the first 5 casts. The water was off color and just slightly high. The fish didnt rise much but a few here and there. Slay didnt catch one in the first big hole and neither did I. But just around the bend he started to gain confidence in the scud. Our rig was:
weight-------(bhhares ear or copper john)-----weight-----scud
There was about 10 inches between the 2 flies and the weights right in the middle. I was using a BH FB Copperjohn with RubberLegs and a Gray FB Scud and Slay was using a BH FB Hares Ear and a Green Epoxy Back Scud. He was concerned that it was too much weight but we wanted the bottom and if you were catching it ....just lift the rod tip.
Quickly Slay and I were catching fish. We did a fast stream temp of the stream, it was 58 degrees and it had rained heavy hours before. Im sure it is normally cooler than that. We also saw tricos in the spider webs 🙂 Im excited about that! In all we caught about 20-22 trout. All wild browns except for 2 rainbows. Nothing of real big size. All but a few fish took the scuds. Though in one hole i had a fished hooked for 3 seconds that looked every bit as big as 17 inches. We caught 7 fish out of that hole all together and missed 4 One of the bows I think was wild and one stocked. We were dead even in fish. For a guy that said " Im not much of a nymph fisherman.", He did just fine ;-)
Welcome to the club Slay! That section of stream is amazing even though its short. It normally does even better than we did. I promise to go up there with ya on a day they are rising in clear water.....Its something to see!
Of this trip i mostly only snapped fish pics and i didnt take pics of every one. I have these streams will photoed so i didnt bother. Slay and Spectorfly had a camera at the next stop: Wyomissing Creek.......im sure they got tons for the next stream report.Enjoy!
One of Slays browns.
Slay brown2
Wild Bow?
Nice wild brown Slay caught
P.S. Slay keep those 2 flies too ;-)
Slay picked me up around 6 am and we headed off to the Upper Tully. We arrived around 6:30 and i was nervous because of how much i talked this stream up. But this stream always produces some fish and i know it very well.
In the parking area i gave Slay a beautiful wooden carved fly box full of dry flies. (Box not included). ;-) I told him that nymphs and scuds will catch fish and thats what we were going to use. There was a thread on nymphing by Evanmart recently. My answer to that is what i told Slay. In my experience, if your fishing for less pressured wild trout, there is NO wrong way to nymph fish. Dead drift it off or on the bottom, swing it and then twitch it upstream back to you slowly but with fast little twitches of the rod tip. When its over Letort trout, my answers way different. The above Technique is what we were going to use.
Once down at the stream i caught 3 wild browns in the first 5 casts. The water was off color and just slightly high. The fish didnt rise much but a few here and there. Slay didnt catch one in the first big hole and neither did I. But just around the bend he started to gain confidence in the scud. Our rig was:
weight-------(bhhares ear or copper john)-----weight-----scud
There was about 10 inches between the 2 flies and the weights right in the middle. I was using a BH FB Copperjohn with RubberLegs and a Gray FB Scud and Slay was using a BH FB Hares Ear and a Green Epoxy Back Scud. He was concerned that it was too much weight but we wanted the bottom and if you were catching it ....just lift the rod tip.
Quickly Slay and I were catching fish. We did a fast stream temp of the stream, it was 58 degrees and it had rained heavy hours before. Im sure it is normally cooler than that. We also saw tricos in the spider webs 🙂 Im excited about that! In all we caught about 20-22 trout. All wild browns except for 2 rainbows. Nothing of real big size. All but a few fish took the scuds. Though in one hole i had a fished hooked for 3 seconds that looked every bit as big as 17 inches. We caught 7 fish out of that hole all together and missed 4 One of the bows I think was wild and one stocked. We were dead even in fish. For a guy that said " Im not much of a nymph fisherman.", He did just fine ;-)
Welcome to the club Slay! That section of stream is amazing even though its short. It normally does even better than we did. I promise to go up there with ya on a day they are rising in clear water.....Its something to see!
Of this trip i mostly only snapped fish pics and i didnt take pics of every one. I have these streams will photoed so i didnt bother. Slay and Spectorfly had a camera at the next stop: Wyomissing Creek.......im sure they got tons for the next stream report.Enjoy!
One of Slays browns.
Slay brown2
Wild Bow?
Nice wild brown Slay caught
P.S. Slay keep those 2 flies too ;-)
