What Creek gave YOU the best Stocked Trout Experience?

[JG63]

The Run in Boiling Springs - I applied all my imitation Marinaro skills in presentation, observation, and line management in the shadow of dozens of anglers flailing about during the sulphur spinner falls back in the ‘80’s - it was crowded and had some downright dour stockers - contrary to popular opinion, these fish were (and still are) quite educated by the dozens of wrong sized/wrong color imitations day in and day out - I was just there last week for a (successful) currency evaluation - first angling foray in nearly two years

 

[tomgamber]

When I do fish camp Cooks, upstream of the left turn off or Kettle above Leidy bridge are good fun with little effort.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

The Run in Boiling Springs

Several years ago, I was a hero to my youngest son and a nephew of the same age. The nephew caught his very first fish - a chub - on the YB near the run. They both caught trout in the Children's Lake outfall. One of the locals talked up their success (and pulled me aside to let me know the stocking truck dropped the chute right into the spot they were catching fish the evening before).

 

[Oregon_OwlII]

About 2000 years ago, I read an an article in the PA Angler magazine titled, "My Dyberry" (attached below).

As a clueless, suburban former Philadelphia angler, I was memorized with this story and thoughts of "far away" and exotic places in PA like the mystical "Dyberry Creek" and I never forgot the article.

Fast forward to the mid 2000's and a now much more worldly & experienced Bamboozle decided to "experience" the Dyberry I read about those many years ago. I emailed the PA Angler & Boater Magazine and asked if they could provide me with a copy of that article. The PFBC obliged and I was super excited to realize my dream and include MY Dyberry in an upcoming Pocono fishing trip...

When we arrived, I dashed upstream to the upper end of Section 03 so I could have as much of the secluded parts of this special stream to fish alone. My two buddies stayed further downstream, right by the Dug Road bridge.

The stream was beautiful and I fished intensely on pretty much ALL of Section 03 of "MY Dyberry...

And got skunked... 😳

To make matters worse, my two buddies who fished right by the Dug Road bridge (where probably most of the stockers were dumped) did great... 😡

I hate the Dyberry Creek...

I had the same experience on the Dyberry years ago. Skunked and never went back.

 

[Oregon_OwlII]

I have a historical question for you. Was the Tully designated DHALO in the 80's and mid-90's? My only experience there was 2000 and later. My memory of that time is that the Tully was an artificial lures C&R designation, but only recently (~5-10 years ago) became DHALO? Did the Tully go DHALO, artificial lures C&R, then back to DHALO? Or is my memory (understandably) flawed? What do you remember?

I always remembered it as DHALO. That's going back to the mid and late Eighties. It was also one of my favorite stacked streams at it originally was stocked with fingerlings that grew to decent size. Wicked caddis and trico hatches back then.

 

[troutbert]

Back in the day, they stocked everything.

Some of the best fishing on stocked streams was on the ones with a lot of wild brown trout. Which people referred to as "holdovers" because they didn't know they were wild brown trout.

Many were not even aware of the CONCEPT of wild brown trout. And that legacy still continues today.

 

[sixfootfenwick]

I had a couple trips when staying at camp opposite of what everyone else has experienced on Dyberry.
I've only fished it 3 times but each time yielded multiple species of fish and well into double digits 3 times over. Each trip only yielded 5-6 trout but the bass and sunfish species kept it interesting.

 

[bingsbaits]

Elk Creek, one of the Erie tribs. If stocked Steelies count.