Valley creek Chester county 1/4/2012

[mushumatt]

The holiday season is over and the chaos at the restaurant I work at has died down, so I decided to hit Valley. I got there around 8 and didnt start fishing till 9, worked my way from the covered bridge to the turnpike bridge. More a searching trip to scout out the stream a little more. But I was able to land 6 fish and the biggest being my guess around 16". Air temp was around 16 when i started and warmed up to around 30 by the time i left, Water temps 42. I didnt see any fish rising like the past few times ive been out. Fish the deep holes and watch your line. Very subtle hits, I probably missed alot of fish. Ive had success with sz18-22 zebra midges, sz 20-22 bwo.

Oh and may I saw LETS GO MOUNTAINEERS 😛int: 😛int:

 

[JohnPowers]

That's THE fish on valley, at least in my experience and if you were out there at 16 degrees you deserve every fish you caught. Well done.

 

[mushumatt]

Thanks man, i've been working alot at my job since it was the holiday season and i've had alot of thing to think about so it was very therapeutic. But I would rather have the 16degree weather and noone out then the weather like today and the creek swamped with other fisherman.

 

[PSUFishMenace]

Nice job. Gonna piggyback on your report. Fished Valley today from about 11-1:30. First trip of the year for me, beautiful day and once I figured things out the fishing was good too. In the last half hour I had 6 hits on a #16 BHHE. Flat-out missed the first four (one was about 12", bummer) but brought the last two to hand, both about 8". Guess I was a bit rusty, water was super clear and i could see exactly when they ate the fly and still missed those first hits. Speaking of clear water I could not believe the number of suckers I saw!

Thought the stream seemed in good shape overall, sure there were some changes but looked like a net positive to me.

There were lots of midges in the air, they were super tiny.
Saw a few risers.

Good start to the new year!