I've has a lot of fun experiences on the Aquishacola, usually in May around or a little before Memorial Day. They stock it from around Little Gap downstream. Usually caught a mix of wilds and holdovers to 16 inches. Fall fishing was more sparse, turning up a few wilds here and there . Plenty access and rarely ran into other anglers since the frying pan adherents usually gave up on the stream by then. Ran into what appeared to be a 350-400 pound bear one time. He was more nonchalant than I was, at the time. There are remnant stone dams that are 12 inches high in a few places that I think were meant to be hold pens for the stockies. They don't cause much of an impediment. Lots of good looking cobble on the stream. Some sections could use bigger and better tree canopy. The south hillside in that area is marked as a superfund site because of the smelting operations. Not sure how they would clean that up. Things were starting to grow back the last time I was there. That might be 14 or 15 years ago. Since they stock it, I don't think that much contamination reaches the waterway.
