tea creek

[xgregx]

Does anyone have any good tacticts for fishing tea creek in mifflin county? I know that creek has a lot of fish but they are tough to catch.

 

[Chaz]

# 18 orange crane fly, or a # 12 yellow stimulator.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

It's a spring creek, correct? I fished it once, caught a few, all on scuds. It reminded me of the upper end of the Tully.

 

[xgregx]

Yes its a spring creek and i fished it once with stimulators and they spooked really easy. I plan on going saturday and i was thinking about using scuds but its so small to nymph.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

I fished scuds under a caddis. A stimulator would work. Drop that scud right off the stimy.

 

[xgregx]

Did you use weight with the scuds and did you use and indicator? Ive only ever really nymphed bigger streams like penns so i could use some advice on these smaller streams. And did you fish upstream or down?

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Upstream for sure, and if memory serves, I did not wade at all. This was at the "Jam" 2 years ago. The stretch we fished was kind of a clearing, like a meadow? The caddis was my indicator. My scud was just your basic olive scud. I didn't put any split shot or anything like that on, though the scud may have had a bead head. Basically a size 14 elk hair caddis, about 12"-15" of tippet tied off the bend of the caddis hook, olive scud. Cast upstream like you would normally present a dry fly, and feel free to skate that caddis around too. Scuds swim, so having some movement in the water can bring on a strike.

 

[Stenonema]

Presentation is key. Stay down, stay back. Make longer casts or sneak your but off. There is no substitute. The best tied fly will not overcome a poor approach.

 

[xgregx]

Yeah i was thinking you meant a caddia larvae. Ok so basically just use a dropper off of a elk hair caddis or stimulator and be really sneaky and i should be good to go.