Valley Creek/Valley Forge Park 5/10/2010

[giantsjim]

Fished above and below the iron bridge from 2-6 PM. Water clarity was good with excellent flow on this partly cloudy day. Air temps low to mid 60's. Water temp, I am guessing, was high 50's.
I was surprised to see no other cars as I pulled down to the bridge around 2 PM. I started upstream and landed two fish with first 3 casts. I got strikes or landed fish from every pool, riffle and run I cast into; usually within the first few attempts. The fish were very active hitting my CDC caddis emergers- gray and emerald. There were caddis coming off though heavier downstream and later around 5 PM. There were also midges and another mayfly like a crane fly coming off throughout the afternoon. I ended up landing double digit fish most in the 6-7" range with several over 10".

 

[greenlander]

Was out yesterday as well, from around 3pm till 7:30 or so.

Didn't do quite as well as you did, but brought a half a dozen or so to hand. Had the biggest trout I've ever had hooked up on VC for all of 10 seconds only to have him shake my hook.

It was the all caddis show for me as well, picked up 3 on a caddis larvae nymphs and 3 or 4 on split-wing elk hair caddis on top, I think size 16.

Unfortunately I didn't have any emergers. I definitely need to get more emergers in my box.

 

[greenlander]

Oh, speaking of big trout in VC, I forgot to mention...

I saw a monster (for VC) pushing suckers out of his way in the big sucker pool. Had to have been 18"+.

That stream definitely holds a few hogs, despite the overwhelming majority of 4-7 inchers.

 

[marcq]

what the fishing like further up from the iron bridge. i'v hit it once but only got up to the highway bridge and didnt really check out the spots further up.

 

[troutrageous1]

I saw much of the same on Sunday the 9th. Only noticed two other anglers the whole afternoon (I was fishing around the covered bridge) from about 2 to 4:30. Maybe the wind scared them off...

Trout were really quite active, was fishing a bh prince nymphs beneath an elk hair caddis indicator with a 11' tenkara rod.

This guy was pretty typical of the afternoon's haul.

 

[eroc144]

Looks like a bunch of us were out on Mon, and none of us saw anyone else!

I was fishing below the covered bridge from 5pm - dark. Saw a few caddis and a few sulphurs, and a few #18 spinners with the longest tails I've ever seen - easily an inch!

I stayed on top with a sulphur comparadun and took half-a-dozen, the largest around 11".

EG