sixfootfenwick
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I 3rd this
How does your strategy change when trout are recently stocked (under 7 days)?
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Nocktavius
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Need to pick up a copy of “The Truckchasers Guide to the Galaxy”
sixfootfenwick
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They have them at the regional offices
The Rodfather
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He's already in a good spot, being on PAFF. Could be swapped out with the editing staff of that book.
Bamboozle
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It is right up there with corn & bread flies but...
It is sort of "matching the hatch" or more aptly, an "imitation of life"...
Way back in my highfalutin' early fly angling days, I used to frequent the Little Lehigh former Heritage Stretch (Section 08). If I got desperate, I would sometime head to the "Kiddie Pool" and if I was even more desperate, I'd head to the top of the wall... 🙄
I don't know what the deal is today since I haven't fished from that wall in eons, but back then they had gumball machines that dispensed pellets. Folks would buy some and drop them in the Kiddie Pool to feed the stockers, most who were hatchery escapees. It wasn't usually a single pellet tossed in but a handful which made a "burr-rap-t-t-t" sound when they hit the water.
After seeing the fish being fed many times, I had an epiphany I call the "pellet presentation"...
IF I was "lucky" enough to get a spot on the wall, (it wasn't easy in those days with all of the sports looking for easy pickins), I would tie on some brownish nymph or a straight out pellet fly and put three or four tiny split shot above my fly on the tippet spaced about 2" apart. When I lobbed that rig in the water...
It made the same "burr-rap-t-t-t" sound as a handful of pellets and the stockers were all over it... 😉
Many years later, I took my future wife to the Little Lehigh. She occasionally spin fished with me, but had ZERO experience with a fly rod. To up her odds, I took her to the wall at the "Kiddie Pool" and coached her on the "pellet presentation"...
She caught about 5 fish that day... 😎
I have used that technique is decades but it might be worth a "shot" (pardon the pun)...
It is sort of "matching the hatch" or more aptly, an "imitation of life"...
Way back in my highfalutin' early fly angling days, I used to frequent the Little Lehigh former Heritage Stretch (Section 08). If I got desperate, I would sometime head to the "Kiddie Pool" and if I was even more desperate, I'd head to the top of the wall... 🙄
I don't know what the deal is today since I haven't fished from that wall in eons, but back then they had gumball machines that dispensed pellets. Folks would buy some and drop them in the Kiddie Pool to feed the stockers, most who were hatchery escapees. It wasn't usually a single pellet tossed in but a handful which made a "burr-rap-t-t-t" sound when they hit the water.
After seeing the fish being fed many times, I had an epiphany I call the "pellet presentation"...
IF I was "lucky" enough to get a spot on the wall, (it wasn't easy in those days with all of the sports looking for easy pickins), I would tie on some brownish nymph or a straight out pellet fly and put three or four tiny split shot above my fly on the tippet spaced about 2" apart. When I lobbed that rig in the water...
It made the same "burr-rap-t-t-t" sound as a handful of pellets and the stockers were all over it... 😉
Many years later, I took my future wife to the Little Lehigh. She occasionally spin fished with me, but had ZERO experience with a fly rod. To up her odds, I took her to the wall at the "Kiddie Pool" and coached her on the "pellet presentation"...
She caught about 5 fish that day... 😎
I have used that technique is decades but it might be worth a "shot" (pardon the pun)...
falcon
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They stock among other places a couple thousand fish at the rt209 bridge and the acid factory which are both on the Beaverkill. They become annoying at times.
The Rodfather
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Whatever you do, make sure you have fun doing it. No need to get frustrated over rubber trout. Plus, you are outside taking in the best PA has to offer in its waterways.
tjsingle
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Usually I'll nymph similar stuff I would be using for any other trout stream. Some more attractor type nymphs as well. Eggs and worms too are fun, especially when you can see the fly under water. Watching the eats are cool no matter if they are stocked or not.
I had some fun on the DHALO on the E. Branch Brandywine in March throwing eggs, BWOs, and BWO nymphs lately.
I had some fun on the DHALO on the E. Branch Brandywine in March throwing eggs, BWOs, and BWO nymphs lately.
