djs12354
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In the Heritage section and apparently there is a severe shortage of dumb fish.
I’m leaving Thursday for Ohio to do my Mother-in-Law's taxes and a couple of small chores.
I was feeling bummed out, (not over going to Mom’s. She’s a great lady and I’ll do anything for her), but because this meant that I would miss my Saturday fishing time, (we’ll be driving back on Saturday).
Thought about it for a while and decided that today (Wed) would be a great day to take some of my vacation hours.
Shot an email to Dan, telling him of my plan and it must have taken him all of 10 minutes to write back and say he was ready to go too!
We laid plans at lunch time to fish either the Dyberry, which is up in our neck of the woods, or head to the Little Lehigh. We decided that there would be less of a crowd during the week on the LL and targeted that body of water for today.
We met at our usual spot to carpool down to the Little Lehigh and began the drive down the turnpike to Allentown. A little over 90 minutes later, we pulled into the parking area at the Heritage section and began to gear up. Quite a few cars in the lot, and I was hoping it was a lot of runners and/or walkers. Must have been mostly that way, because the stream had people on it but not what I feared based on the number of cars.
We meandered up-stream to the “Kiddie-Pool” and fished below a couple of gentlemen who were taking some nice trout out of the upper portion as Dan and I watched.
We started fishing tandem nymphs through the pool, watching trout swimming back and forth, not acting “spooky” at all. I watched several times as my line and leader floated over fish that had moved up as my cast soared over the water and they never flinched.
After some time passed, I hooked into and landed the fish in the picture attached. It took a small BWO that I was using as an indicator and actually took it after it had been pulled under a little. (Makes me wonder if I inadvertently imitated an emerger?) Had a nice little fight with that fish. (Dan tells me I only catch fish when he is re-tying or otherwise adjusting tackle. I think he should spend more time practicing knots then!) Turned couple more fish, foul-hooked one somehow, and missed one on a dry. Also experienced the frustration of watching fish rise to my fly and turn away without taking a couple of times.
Dan got a couple of nice fish, turned a few and generally had the same experience I did fishing today. As he said, we did not get skunked!
We were hoping for a hatch of some kind today, but did not see more than the occasional bug on the water. We left around 1 or 1:30, so I don’t know if the breeze died down and something stirred later? I hope so for those that were still fishing as we left.
At least I had my fishing fix for the week and it sure beat sitting at work, day-dreaming about being able to get out on the water. Hope I can manage to get out again before the Newbie Jam. So much water, So little time!
Dave
I’m leaving Thursday for Ohio to do my Mother-in-Law's taxes and a couple of small chores.
I was feeling bummed out, (not over going to Mom’s. She’s a great lady and I’ll do anything for her), but because this meant that I would miss my Saturday fishing time, (we’ll be driving back on Saturday).
Thought about it for a while and decided that today (Wed) would be a great day to take some of my vacation hours.
Shot an email to Dan, telling him of my plan and it must have taken him all of 10 minutes to write back and say he was ready to go too!
We laid plans at lunch time to fish either the Dyberry, which is up in our neck of the woods, or head to the Little Lehigh. We decided that there would be less of a crowd during the week on the LL and targeted that body of water for today.
We met at our usual spot to carpool down to the Little Lehigh and began the drive down the turnpike to Allentown. A little over 90 minutes later, we pulled into the parking area at the Heritage section and began to gear up. Quite a few cars in the lot, and I was hoping it was a lot of runners and/or walkers. Must have been mostly that way, because the stream had people on it but not what I feared based on the number of cars.
We meandered up-stream to the “Kiddie-Pool” and fished below a couple of gentlemen who were taking some nice trout out of the upper portion as Dan and I watched.
We started fishing tandem nymphs through the pool, watching trout swimming back and forth, not acting “spooky” at all. I watched several times as my line and leader floated over fish that had moved up as my cast soared over the water and they never flinched.
After some time passed, I hooked into and landed the fish in the picture attached. It took a small BWO that I was using as an indicator and actually took it after it had been pulled under a little. (Makes me wonder if I inadvertently imitated an emerger?) Had a nice little fight with that fish. (Dan tells me I only catch fish when he is re-tying or otherwise adjusting tackle. I think he should spend more time practicing knots then!) Turned couple more fish, foul-hooked one somehow, and missed one on a dry. Also experienced the frustration of watching fish rise to my fly and turn away without taking a couple of times.
Dan got a couple of nice fish, turned a few and generally had the same experience I did fishing today. As he said, we did not get skunked!
We were hoping for a hatch of some kind today, but did not see more than the occasional bug on the water. We left around 1 or 1:30, so I don’t know if the breeze died down and something stirred later? I hope so for those that were still fishing as we left.
At least I had my fishing fix for the week and it sure beat sitting at work, day-dreaming about being able to get out on the water. Hope I can manage to get out again before the Newbie Jam. So much water, So little time!
Dave
