PA Limestone
Chris Smorul and I had been planning a trip to PA for a few weeks. Packing the truck the night before, I noticed the wind was already blowing pretty hard and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. To me, this means be ready to freeze your ass off the next day. Waking up dark and early the next day (same night), I made the drive out to pick up Chris, from there we made the drive to the river. Arriving at the river I could see the water was high but had that nice limestone green color to it. We both rigged up long leader Euro style, opened a few hand warmers and made our way down to the river. It didn’t take but a few minutes and we were both hooked up into some nice trout. The browns were our main target but the rainbows were a nice surprise. I guess no one bothered to tell them it was 20 degrees outside, every rainbow we got came with multiple jumps and some hard fights. The flies for the day were the usual flies, woven nymphs and frenchies doing their fair share of damage, along with a new hares ear I’ve been working on. The usual woven nymph, however, (black bead, olive back, orange underbody) didn’t take a single fish. The wovens that had copper beads and white under bodies worked very well. Unfortunately, I only had a few of them. When they were all gone I pulled out the old limestone reliable; Walt’s worm. Despite the below freezing temperatures, Chris and I both got more than our fair share of fish and the Euro nymphing helped keep the ice off the guides.
First fish of the day
Chris with a nice brown.
Close up with the french tickler fly (Smorul original).
They really liked the light colored wovens.
This wild brown liked Walt’s worm.
Are these browns pretty or what?
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Chris Michels. Just a fisherman.
Nick Naclerio. Just a fisherman, too.
Jordan Ewing. The fishing photographer. 
Rub it in guys. I’m going crazy. I need to do some fishing ASAP. My wife should be popping any day now. Who knows when I’ll be able to get out again.
1Nice pics, guys! Need to get out there NOW!!!
2Don’t worry Chris when we finally get you out it will be something good.
Jay those PA limestone are always a good time. They stay a bit warmer in the winter also.
3Other than the fact that my fingers were close to paralyzed by the cold, I really wasn’t that uncomfortable, especially when a fish was on the line.
4I had a good time Chris. I will be back out that way this winter to beat up on those browns some more.
5Little J?
6WAY further east.
7Warmer definitely=better!
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