West Branch of the Perkiomen 5/5/07 & Little Lehigh 5/6/07

[fly_flinger]

I fished the West Branch from about 3pm-7pm on Saturday. Caught 5 little wild browns. They were from 4"-9". Caught them on an adams, BWO and a small march brown. There were fish rising everywhere and I managed to missed a bunch of them. Two bait/spinner fisherman showed up and started fishing the same hole I was. The whole stream was empty but they choose the hole I was fishing. Why do people do that?

On Sunday I fished the Little Lehigh from 11am-3pm. There were several flies hatching. Caddis and 2 or 3 types of mayflies. There weren't many rising fish though. I only saw one section with more than 1 riser. I fished nymphs all day and ended up with 5 browns and 1 rainbow. The browns were caught on a BH PT and the rainbow was on a BH baetis. I didn't see one other angler.

 

[RRR]

Oh no. The two bait/spinner fishermen you had the displeasure of running into are probably the same two that nearly cleaned the stream out a couple years ago. Came there every day for a couple weeks and kept every large fish they caught. Didn't see them last year but I fished the stream the other day and didn't catch anything over about 8 inches. Only had six total, and most were 4-5 inches. Thought something was wrong. Now I know what.

 

[LouM]

When that happens to me I usually ask them if they know what stream courtesy is. The results vary from ignoring the remark to moving.

 

[Fredrick]

When that happens to me they usualy get hit with my back cast a couple of times until they get the point :-x