My cousin Rich and I just got back from a week fishing and hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
We experienced winter and summer in just a few days, fishing the West Prong of Little River in the snow on Monday and Abrams Creek in Cades Cove in 80 degree temps Friday.
We caught about 100 wild rainbows between the two of us during the week. No browns or brookies were taken. Almost everything was taken on dry flies.
Went back to the Codorus Creek this morning. The first two hours were a bust, didn't have a bite.
Decided to head downstream to a hole that is a favorite of mine and my fishing partner John. Connected with four wild browns in about 15 minutes from the same spot using a 14 scud.
Moved up stream, switching to a little black stonefly dry after a live one landed on my vest. Picked up two more browns on the dry and another on the scud. Seven fish for three hours of fishing, not bad at all in my book.
Today it hit 60 degrees here in south central PA so I decided it would be a good day to hit my favorite local stream. Got on the water around 11 am and caught my first wild trout of the year, a nice little brown on a 14 BH pheasant tail. It ended up being the only fish of the day, but what a great way to start the year.
Thanks for visiting my site. I'm just getting started with setting this up, so bear with me. Aside from the fact that I haven't been on the water for over a month (too busy waterfowl hunting), I'm in the process of moving things from a fly fishing page on my photoblog to this site. Will be back soon with updates and more photos!