Had a short weekend trip to my old fishing streams in PA. Always a special treat to get back to places I fished in the mid 1960's as a teenager. As I've mentioned before very little has changed other than how many bears there are now.
Water was a little higher than usual which was great. Trout were hungry and on one catch and release fly fishing only stream Saturday morning I caught 32 wild Brooks and one wild Brown. All on dry flies which I prefer. On a larger stream Friday evening did catch a few on a dry/nymph dropper. Over two days two of us caught and released over 80 trout. The CRFFO streams are definitely beneficial to the wild trout populations.
It was interesting that the residents were seeing the bears starting to eat the unripened apples and theorize that the heavy rains have suppressed the blackberry and raspberry crop. The concern is will there be enough food to fatten them for winter? Out of my knowledge vault but may be natures way of controlling the population?
Undoubtedly my Nirvana.
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Water was a little higher than usual which was great. Trout were hungry and on one catch and release fly fishing only stream Saturday morning I caught 32 wild Brooks and one wild Brown. All on dry flies which I prefer. On a larger stream Friday evening did catch a few on a dry/nymph dropper. Over two days two of us caught and released over 80 trout. The CRFFO streams are definitely beneficial to the wild trout populations.
It was interesting that the residents were seeing the bears starting to eat the unripened apples and theorize that the heavy rains have suppressed the blackberry and raspberry crop. The concern is will there be enough food to fatten them for winter? Out of my knowledge vault but may be natures way of controlling the population?
Undoubtedly my Nirvana.
Share some photos:
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