I will do my best to help you. I grew up fishing the Dream Mile Club just to the west and north of Blakeslee, which is the intersection of Routes 940 and 115.
The R&G club owns 3.1 miles of the Tobyhanna Creek, and over 900 acres of land just north of the Rte. 940 on its way to the upper Lehigh River. The Lower Tobyhanna Club owns the rest of the water to the mouth of the Lehigh River above the Francis E. Walter Dam and impoundment.
My grandfather was one of the original investors/members buying the property. Back then, Blakeslee was a very small town. That has changed since then. Blakeslee is very much built up into a Pocono destination with skiing and racing.
Here is what I like about the club. I know that I am a very average fly fisherman at best. Clint Eastwood once said: "A man has got to know his limitations." I know them. I have gone on two fly fishing adventures with Squaretail and he never made me feel like I didn't belong. He is a much better fly fisherman than I am. I can catch fish there on unmatched to the hatch dry flies, and wooly buggers.
The trout are all stocked at the Dream Mile, but they don't all get caught and most of the club practices C&R. The stocked trout quickly acclimate from trout pellets from the hatchery to what is available to them. They also have to avoid the predators(osprey and otters). If they can survive the winter, they are an altogether different fighting fish.
One day I will be the member of this club, but I am in no hurry since I want my father to live a long life. When the day finally comes, I will probably spend most of my weekends there. I haven't even scratched the surface of all that water and land growing up, but want to explore all 3.1 miles of that stream and walk all 900 acres of that property. I am an animal track and skat kind of observer.
When I resume deer hunting, I am going to do it there.
In closing I want to address what I do and don't know private water and what is considered navigable/non-navigable. I'm not a lawyer and really don't know. I have read countless posts on this topic about the Little Juniata River and and an alumn at Juniata College so I know all of the frustrations about this topic. I have obviously been on both sides of the fence on what is and is not navigable water. I can see respect the arguments from both sides of the fence.
Since my username is Canoetripper(CT), you can imagine how many times I have dealt with angry landowners. Canoeing is my passion and I am never disrespectful, and am always considerate. I never litter whether on the river or anywhere else. I am an outdoorsman environmentalist.
I don't want any member of this message board to think that I am an elitist snob since the Dream Mile Club has always been a huge part of my fly fishing life. I will be glad to host other board members in the future. I want my aging father to live a very long life, and especially to be there to watch his granddaughter graduate from the University of North Carolina.
Post edit note: The water in the Tobyhanny Creek looks like ice tea from tanic acid.
