Creek Addict

Nick and I decided to go down to western Jersey and pick up a buddy of ours, Chris Smorul, and fish some of the eastern PA spring creeks. The fishing in PA was amazing. I had hit one of the streams we fished mutliple times before only to come up skunked. This time, I couldn’t not catch fish. Nick and I both had fish with literally our first couple of casts. That just set the tone for the rest of the day. The numbers for Nick and I on the day were well over 20 fish a piece. Chris, who was just learning long line euro nymphing didn’t get quite that amount, but he still netted himself some nice wild fish.

The first place we fished had a good amount of really good wild browns. We were worried that the water might have been really high and off color from all the rain we have been having, but when we arrived at the creek, the water was at a perfect flow with just a slight stain to the water. Perfect nymphing conditions. It seemed like every where we put a fly, we pulled out at least one little wild brown. We talked to a fish and game officer down there and he told us, in that particular stream, there is between 575-725 wild fish in a 300 yard stretch. I had been skunked on the stream twice in the past, I must have forgotten to tie on a hook before, lol. Nick also managed to catch two stockies while we were there. The colors and condition of the stocked fish in PA is extraordinary.

The second place we fished wasn’t quite as good as the first place we went, but it was still pretty darn good. We caught quite a number of nice wild browns in there, and I was the one to catch the two stockies this time. A big old brookie and a little rainbow. A few sections of this spring creek were VERY productive, while others would just net us a couple of fish.

Biggest fish of the day caught out of stream 1. Gorgeous colors.

Really nice brown caught out of stream 1 by Nick.

Another fat little brown caught by Nick on stream 1.

Another nice size brown out of stream 1.

Nick’s brookie out of stream 1.

Brown out of stream 2. The fish seemed all together skinnier on this stream.

Brookie out of stream 2.

Pretty little brown out of stream 2.