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| Wbranch | October 17th, 2008, 8:33 pm | |
| York & Starlight PA Posts: 559 | Many 8# - 10# fish and most were very bright. Best flies were #12 - #16 stoneflies in black and brown with 4X tippet. 3X works but you get more hookups with 4X.  | |
| Catskill fly fisher for fifty years. | ||
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| Martinlf | October 21st, 2008, 8:19 pm | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 1483 | Nice fish, Matt! I hope to go up during Christmas break. | |
| "He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell | ||
| Troutnut | October 21st, 2008, 10:13 pm | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1435 | Great fish! | |
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| Wbranch | October 22nd, 2008, 5:27 pm | |
| York & Starlight PA Posts: 559 | Hello Louis, If you are going up at Christmas break maybe we can go together. Remember though it is pointless to drive for six hours if the streams are low. Even when there are fish in the creeks they are very spooky when the creeks are low and clear. They see guys walking around all day and are jumpy. When they are low normally you can hook a few at dawn and then again at dusk. Ideally you will be keeping an eye on the weather - you don't want just a shower because by the time you get there the creeks will be low again. You want a good all day, or two day steady rain, then check out the reports at fisherie.com - when it stops you should be driving up. As the creeks start to drop and turn a greenish color with little visibility is when you will get fish. I used a 9' #7 and thought about using a 9' #6 as you aren't casting very much at all - a roll cast is pretty much all I did and I never used more than two BB's but the power and size of the fish made me happy I was using the #7. The stream beds are just full of shale - you will lose gobs of flies - if you aren't losing flies you probably aren't down in the zone. If you look behind me at the top picture you can see light and dark water - the edge between the light and dark is a shelf and fish lay in the darker colored water and parallel to those shelves. | |
| Catskill fly fisher for fifty years. | ||
| CaseyP | January 8th, 2009, 2:06 pm | |
| Arlington, VA/ Mercersburg, PA Posts: 456 | JAD--wow, that was an awesome fish! thanks for yet another motivating post; gonna get me up there sometime before i get Called Above! | |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra | ||
| JAD | January 8th, 2009, 7:43 pm | |
| Butler--- Western Pa Posts: 304 | Thanks CaseyP I should be able to post a pic, but as you see I'm not doing a very good job JaD | |
| You miss 100 percent of the shots that you don't take." | ||
| CaseyP | January 8th, 2009, 10:54 pm | |
| Arlington, VA/ Mercersburg, PA Posts: 456 | i do feel your pain...photobucket is sooo frustrating! | |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra | ||
| JAD | January 9th, 2009, 10:00 am | |
| Butler--- Western Pa Posts: 304 | Try this. | |
| You miss 100 percent of the shots that you don't take." | ||
| JAD | January 9th, 2009, 10:12 am | |
| Butler--- Western Pa Posts: 304 | I think I figured it out.  | |
| You miss 100 percent of the shots that you don't take." | ||
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