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| CaseyP | January 13th, 2010, 5:48 pm | |
 Posts: 653 | looks like a very slight warming trend has arrived here in So. Cen. PA. it was a balmy 38 degrees on the ski slope this afternoon. so obviously it's time to go fishing tomorrow! i have NO idea what to try in a winter this deep on the Little J or Spruce Creek. gnats? blue winged olives? midge larvae/pupae? good ole bead headed pheasant tail? all of the above until something works? all i do know is small. anyone got some ideas? | |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra | ||
| Wbranch | January 13th, 2010, 5:58 pm | |
 Posts: 2733 | Find some slow and relatively deep pools on the LJ. Rig up a 9' 5X leader with a #16 - #18 BH PT and a #16 - #18BH BH Peeking caddis below. Put an indicator about a foot higher than the depth of the pool and flip it up and float it down. Let us know how you do. | |
| Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
| CaseyP | January 13th, 2010, 6:57 pm | |
Posts: 653 | Thanks! i'll let you know how it works...;-) | |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra | ||
| Jmd123 | January 13th, 2010, 10:23 pm | |
 Posts: 2611 | This is out of your area guys, but here in Michigan, it's time to hit the steelhead...just tied up a couple of Spring Nymphs for such, but I need to get longer squirrel hair...also, a red-eyed KBF in copper & brown. My latest plan to beat the winter blues: X/C ski on the cold snowy days and throw flies at steelhead during the warm soggy ones. I will survive!!!!!!! Jonathon | |
| No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
| CaseyP | January 14th, 2010, 4:56 pm | |
Posts: 653 | gorgeous, gorgeous day. my companion, otherwise known as 2nd Best Fishing Buddy, got three lovely browns on the BHPT. i, right next to her, got nothing, and neither did the other guy we saw. see? luck does matter...we fished a tributary to the little J which shall remain nameless because the world fishes there already. weather was sunny, calm (where we were) and 45 degrees. | |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra | ||
| BHPT557 | January 17th, 2010, 8:57 am | |
| Posts: 1 | Hey, I like to believe I demonstrated a modicum of skill. | |
| JAD | January 17th, 2010, 1:56 pm | |
 Posts: 362 | On the January thaw,I caught a very pretty Steelhead,thought I would share. Best 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 17th, 2010, 2:44 pm | |
Posts: 653 | Hey, I like to believe I demonstrated a modicum of skill. well, well: found your way over here at last! yep, we're both streets ahead of where we were last year--some of us further than others! pretty soon they might let us go fishing with them... | |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra | ||
| Wbranch | January 17th, 2010, 4:22 pm | |
Posts: 2733 | Nice winter steelhead - colors seem to indicate it hasn't been in the stream very long if it had it would normally be much darker. | |
| Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
| UPTroutBum | January 18th, 2010, 9:50 am | |
| Marquette, MI Posts: 33 | Ya, that looks more like a resident rainbow, but either way nice trout. We also had temps in the high 30's this weekend and I landed two rainbows on stonefly nymphs in some water below a hydro dam. One of them was a crazy jumper, it looked like a dolphin going head first back into the water to take a lil bit of line. It sure made winter up here just a lil more tolerable. | |
| " The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas." John Voelker | ||
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