Bermudian Creek

[Dwright]

I pulled out an old Southcentral Region PA Fishing Map from 2005 looking for new water to explore. Fifteen years ago the section of Bermudian Creek that ran through State Game Lands #249 between US-15 and Rt-94 was regulated as Delayed Harvest ALO. According to the current maps on the PA Fish and Boat website, it's now just a Stocked Trout Stream. Has anyone fished this section recently? Are the stream conditions worth exploring with a fly rod during the fall and winter?

 

[Dave_W]

That special regulation section only lasted a short time and was dropped probably close to a decade ago due to a mercurial landowner.

Like the other stocked streams in Adams County it does not typically hold fish over the summer. Look elsewhere.

 

[Mike]

There are a number of wild trout streams in the Muddy Creek and Codorus Creek drainages that could meet your requirements. There are at least a couple on that map that are no longer stocked because those sections were relatively recently designated Class A....Leibs Ck, Blymire Hollow Run. Depending on your casting skills around trees and shrubs on smaller streams, you might want to start with Leibs. Additionally, while the section of the SBr Codorus that is “stocked trout open to year around fishing” is stocked by the PFBC and a co-op nursery, it also supports a small wild brown trout population and most of the section, if not its entirety, has had excellent habitat improvement done on it. I would expect holdover trout from the spring as well as wild trout. It is a very nice size stream to fly fish.