Narco,
No disrespect towards you at all, I was just glad to finally meet someone that actually knows what the heck they are talking about when they fish my home creek. My grandfather knew the Henry's growing up and he and a buddy used to do stream work in a few places along the stream. I have pictures of my grandmother ,him,and his buddy and buddie's wife picnicking along Henry's Woods streamside. I caught my first trout when i was five in Henry's Woods in a run above what the other kids called the falls it was above Boulton. There was a fireplace still standing and in use by picnickers at the time. I grew up 1/4 mile away from the Bushkill Creek {Northampton Co.} . I used to skip school and go fish alot . I also used to hunt behind the Palmer Park Mall. Those were the days. The State park is a nice place, but in the 70's and early 80's it was a lot nicer before the stooge Park Ranger decided to put trails all over the darn place. Place was great for rabbits and Pheasants { wild and stocked} , grey squirrells,and deer.
When the Mountain Biking craze hit it runied the woods with even more single track trails and noise that did the hunting in,also more land was posted off limits to hunting.The Bushkill is a mere shadow of what it once was. I clearly remember in the 90's having great hatches,and this was all along the entire stream. I also had a few older gentleman that were fishing buddies who would share their old pictures from the 30's ,40's,50's,60's,70's ,80's of the fishing . They told stories of alot of the Lehigh Valley limestoners having a Drake Hatch and would produce pics of the bugs and the stream when they were hatching. Also the fact that alot of the springs were running so well there was wtiss good water cress where they dumped in or were located.
Not to stomp on anyones parade , but catching three, or four trout was nothing in a half hour. The whole stream has been affected by overdevelopement. The floods that happen now have scoured and also filled alot of great water with silt. Used to be able to catch trout till you got bored. Also I have snorkled the stream and have seen some truly large brown trout under huge boulders and in some of the pools back then {80's}. When they tore out that dam at the Bushkill Park they ruined alot of great water below the dam.Also the hatches there are terrible if they happen at all. The quarry always gettin new permits to go deeper has also affected this stream as well as the sinkholes that appeared rt at where Rt 33 croses,hell it even caused the bridge failure there.When the Quarry has a pump failure or an electrical outage the stream actually dries up from there to Upstream Farms area { the old flyfishing section}. I think between the overdevelopment{storm drain runoff}, flooding and the quarry as well as the widening caused by it an loss of the riparian buffer plus the after effect of the silt have really hurt the fishing. Its still a special place for me where I caught my first trout with my dad, and also where my grandfather fished too.