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Wbranch	October 17th, 2008, 5:33 pm
York & Starlight PA Posts: 821	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.
Martinlf	October 21st, 2008, 5:19 pm
Moderator Palmyra PA Posts: 1714	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, 7:13 pm
The Admin Fairbanks, AK Posts: 2020	Great fish!
	Jason Neuswanger The Troutnut
Wbranch	October 22nd, 2008, 2:27 pm
York & Starlight PA Posts: 821	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, 11:06 am
Arlington, VA/ Mercersburg, PA Posts: 557	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, 4:43 pm
Alexandria Pa Posts: 362	Thanks CaseyP I should be able to post a pic, but as you see I'm not doing a very good job JaD
	They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
CaseyP	January 8th, 2009, 7:54 pm
Arlington, VA/ Mercersburg, PA Posts: 557	i do feel your pain...photobucket is sooo frustrating!
	"You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra
JAD	January 9th, 2009, 7:00 am
Alexandria Pa Posts: 362	Try this.
	They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
JAD	January 9th, 2009, 7:12 am
Alexandria Pa Posts: 362	I think I figured it out.
	They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,

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