FIN-ITE 34
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Fished a PA stream on Saturday with relative success. Started off early throwing some articulated streamers and missed two nice browns that as had happened on
previous occasions, don't really commit to eating the streamer in the low, clear water conditions. My best success has been in high, off colored water. Not much of that happening now, except for the Salmon River area.
I was throwing the streamers on a new switch rod by Beulah, it really is a great chucker. I then switched over to nymphing with the same rod, and it did a fine job both indi and tight line nymphing. I managed to land 5 fish, best one being about 16-17 inches.
At my next move, I broke out the Greys 10' 3 wt. and nymphed up another 5 fish. I hooked a fish and thought I had foul hooked it because of the lack of control and the fish seeming to move in two directions at once. Turns out I had hooked a wild brown double. I have had doubles on freshly stocked fish, but never on wilds.
I also saw a few pods of fish rising to midges in the morning, but did not fish for them because I didn't have any dry patterns that small. I'm talking in the size 26-28 range, or smaller. Later in the afternoon the small olives were bringing the fish up on a regular basis, so I switched from a nymphing leader to a dry fly leader and landed another six fish and missing at least that many again on a size 22 olive.
previous occasions, don't really commit to eating the streamer in the low, clear water conditions. My best success has been in high, off colored water. Not much of that happening now, except for the Salmon River area.
I was throwing the streamers on a new switch rod by Beulah, it really is a great chucker. I then switched over to nymphing with the same rod, and it did a fine job both indi and tight line nymphing. I managed to land 5 fish, best one being about 16-17 inches.
At my next move, I broke out the Greys 10' 3 wt. and nymphed up another 5 fish. I hooked a fish and thought I had foul hooked it because of the lack of control and the fish seeming to move in two directions at once. Turns out I had hooked a wild brown double. I have had doubles on freshly stocked fish, but never on wilds.
I also saw a few pods of fish rising to midges in the morning, but did not fish for them because I didn't have any dry patterns that small. I'm talking in the size 26-28 range, or smaller. Later in the afternoon the small olives were bringing the fish up on a regular basis, so I switched from a nymphing leader to a dry fly leader and landed another six fish and missing at least that many again on a size 22 olive.
