White Clay Creek, Chester Co. 03/22/2014

geebee

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First time out on my 'Home' creek. air temp 62F, water temp 39F, mix of sun & cloud, a little wind.

spent two hours working my way down from London tract rd to just below the danger dam.

started in the riffles and heads of the pools with a bronze kryllex streamer, no luck then tried the BH green weenies, and after losing two to trees had a sit down and a think.

the stockies weren't responding to attractors and the water was very cold, so i switched to an #18 olive PT and fished the undercuts & deep pools, same as i'd fished VC mid winter....

I finished with 3 10-11" bows landed, one lost at the net, one LR all on the olive PT.

pretty creek, mostly too wide and shallow. I saw two other FF heading up to Good Hope Rd and two kids on their way down from the bridge with light tackle when i was finishing, otherwise i had the creek to myself on a warm saturday afternoon.

some Photos :

cookie cutter trout :

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a weird thing i found deep in the woods, farm plough or man trap ?

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an old sign from the days when the preserve was Dupont land :

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a nice couple of hours fishing with no 3 hours of driving.

GB
 
Is this creek a Special Reg. Creek?
I ask because you mentioned STOCKIES.


Steve98
 
Steve98 There is a special regs section (delayed harvest), on the middle branch of the White Clay. The stream looks like it should support wild trout but it gets too warm in the summer.
 
steve - fish stocked 03/10...

the upper stream looks like it should support wild trout, but after the 2nd bend down to the dam its a 100ft wide and 10" deep. way to shallow n slow to keep its cool. shame.

 
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