That sounds like bait dunking to me… NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. :) So if I tie one of those rubber “ring worms” with the treble stuck in the end onto my tippet, smear it around in a jar of Bowker’s Dip Bait, heave it out and let it sit in front of a school of catfish… am I...

Spinner pattern is usually my first choice as well… if multiple fish are working I can usually get a few of them to take the spinner pattern. And a lot of times it seems like the biggest fish will be working spinners (easy meal). I hit this scenario up at Resica Falls first week of June. Got...

Beautiful rainbow Allen! Nice colors, nice proportions… quite a fish. Oh and Trico Mike… nice avatar shot of the Saucon footbridge.

Found a nice tutorial kindanewbie77; Usual Dry Fly Tutorial There's a You Tube clip as well if you prefer the live action... looks like a nice easy tie though.

I agree with Corndog’s opening line… my favorite hatch would be anyone that I can catch in prime conditions. If just picking one, I would have to say the “sulphur hatch”… here in the Lehigh Valley we don’t really have an abundance of good-sized mayflies to choose from, so the handful of species...

Maybe it's they’re way of stimulating the economy. Now a new wave of experts can regurgitate 65-year old knowledge, slap some new lipstick (Latin) on it, and you’ll be able to go out and buy all NEW books. Like the “Czech-style nymphing” craze… :down: "Big Jim" Leisenring must be rolling...

Both Stenonema vicarium and Stenonema fuscum were RE-classifed some years ago as the same species… Maccaffertium vicarium. Many others were as well (for example: Ephemerella rotunda and E. invaria have been combined into one species… E. invaria). I don’t know why this happens… I guess once a...

There's a fly club? Crokit if you don't mind, could you post here (or PM me) the details. I had no idea there was a club of some sort. I thought the fee (donation) to fish there was stopped years ago.

Good to know... I'll be heading up that way tomorrow after work (barring any crazy T-storm action of course). Thanks for the update! :)

Nice report. I'm surprised you were able to find good water for the spinnerfall... it looks like the clouds really opened up there yesterday... USGS gauges for the Brodhead, Bush Kill, and Pocono Creeks were sky-rocketing straight up yesterday afternoon... I would have thought the whole area...

Sound like Yellow Cahills (S. interpunctatum) Mike… we get them in small numbers about a week ahead of the first wave of “Sulphurs” locally (Bushkill, Saucon, Martins)… usually not enough to interest the fish though. Strong hatch on some of the Pocono Plateau streams... Beautiful fly.

I agree, there are always a few ‘floaters” in any stocked stream for various reasons… not sure about the “current” state of the LL Heritage section, but last time I was there (7-8 years ago) it was stuffed with every kind of hatchery creation available. Some lady in high-heeled boots that looked...

I’m wearing my polarized glasses… perhaps that’s why I can clearly see the dead fish settled “belly up” against the submerged rocks… of which every one is BROWN by the way. Maybe you need a pair of “prescription” glasses? :rolleyes:

I see the rocks you are talking about now Skim... there the ones next to the dead trout, correct?

It's clearly a dead fish... I'm surprised the photographer found it before the herons did.

You must be headed for the Saucon... because the Bushkill and Martins were both ripping brown last night. Tight lines!

Absolutely… two tails, no hind wings… I even checked a few duns out under a magnifying glass just to be sure that there was no tiny “tear drop” wing that I was missing (Baetis). So I knew it was the same family that you were thinking, but didn’t have enough info to ID it until I got Nymphs. I...

Check that Mike, right Genus, wrong species (I think)… When I got home from work I pulled out Nymphs Volume I (Schweibert)… the write-up for Acentrella parvula (formerly Pseudocloen parvulum) describes the freshly hatched dun as having pale grayish dun wings, rich golden tan bodies with a faint...

Well, from one bug nerd to another… I have seen the hatch you are describing locally on the Bushkill, Saucon, and Martins Creeks… they predate the “sulphur” hatch by about a week. I am not SURE, but I believe you are in the right “Cloeon” ballpark and I was thinking they are one of the larger...

PA may not even have Green Sunfish on the record books. Other problem is (judging by the pictures) that this likely is not a Green Sunfish... looking at the shape of the pectoral fin and the size of the mouth I would say that fish is a Bluegill or possibly a Bluegill-hybrid. Green Sunfish have...