Lackawanna County Beaver Dam Brookies

[Millsertime]

I fished a new stream on my way home from work yesterday. I researched various streams via Google, overnight rainfall totals, and the PFBFC Arcgis map.

The stream was typical Pocono brook trout stream and then I hit the first beaver dam. Past the dam the tree cover opened up and I felt like I was in Colorado. Gorgeous stream, tons of brookies eager for dry flies, and numerous dams....Beaver and man made dams.

I won't name the stream so I don't miff anybody but I'm sure a fair amount will recognize the beaver dam and open area.

The low humidity and temperatures made trout fishing so enjoyable yesterday. Fall here we come (hopefully)!

 

[DaveKile]

Looks like a good find and a pretty impressive beaver damn. From the size and pictures it looks like a longer-lasting damn?

 

[Baron]

Tranquil, typically Pocono in Nature, great photos.

 

[Nymph-wristed]

Awesome!

 

[flyflicker]

Impressive!

 

[Millsertime]

Dave....long lasting——> Yes.

The only way that big damn would come down is with an excavator or dynamite.

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

If that is the place i think it is....ya its been there a pretty long time

 

[StreamBottom]

That is one helluva dam.
That looks like a nice stream to have on the way home from work.

 

[troutbert]

Why do so many people on here write "damn" when discussing a dam?

Is that an inside joke?

Regarding these dams being long lasting. On a stream north of here, an old timer told me that "back in the day" there was a big beaver dam on it.

When I first fished it, there wasn't any.

A few years later, there was a huge one. The pond was about 3 acres, was the full width of the floodplain, and it was full of brookies.

Several years after that, it was completely gone. No pond at all.

BTW, I once fished a beaver pond in NE PA and caught 11 brookies on 11 consecutive casts.

Other times, though, the fishing can be pretty tough on beaver ponds.