My experience in Michaux largely mirrors the group’s thus far. Haven’t fished it in a couple of years, but for a while I was fishing it a few times a year while visiting my in-laws who lived in Hanover.
I never had a great day up there, but I don’t recall any total skunkings either. Most streams I tried had Brookies in them, and although I never seemed to have a banner numbers day, I caught a few very nice Brookies from Michaux streams. I know there’s a handful of Browns up there too in places, but I never caught a Brown in Michaux. I found a few dud streams like everyone’s mentioning too. On the southern end, Tumbling Run, trib to EB Antietam was one that stuck out in my mind…high gradient, full of plunge pools, but it had that white gravel stream bottom to it. After not turning up any fish in the first few really nice pools I came to I proceeded to just walk through the next couple and see if I spooked any…nothing. I didn’t know it at the time, but I wondered whether that striking white gravel stream bottom had something to do with it. There’s a good bit of rhodo up there, choking out the streams in some places, but not bad in others.
