Welcoming Spring, "Central" Style

[salmonoid]

Last year, I remember fishing BWOs on Spring in early March. This year, I found one solitary fish feeding on BWOs in early March but managed a few fish on nymphs. I was back in Centre County a few days after Spring arrived, with her snow, and water levels were perfect. I fished a different stream, and the BWOs were coming off. Fish were aggressively chasing emergers in the slower water of the pools. I was planning to night fish, and somehow managed to forget my box of BWOs, so I had to use much larger emergers, of the wooly bugger variety. Still had a good outing and still digging the variety of spot patterns and colors in wild browns.





Palest



One of the sparsest spotted fish I have ever caught:



Ragged tail



Paler



Surprise of the day, 14" and fat and the photo masks the bright crimson stripe down it's side:





Dark and skinnier



The only down side of the day was finding a leak in my hippers, after about the second step in the stream. The previous outing, I had found a leak in my wading pants, so I figured since I didn't get a chance to patch them, I stay dry and could get away with the hippers. Wrong.

After fishing, I stopped at a pizza joint on the way home. Special of the day was stromboli and a soda. A good way to finish off a good afternoon.

 

[sarce]

Looks like a good outing and nice pics as always. BWOs are such a great hatch to fish up there, to bad you forgot that box!

Didn't see the difference in the title at first- thought the forum or your computer goofed and somehow posted a reply as a new topic...lol.

 

[Pwigglez]

I'm more concerned with where you caught that Stromboli.

 

[Swattie87]

Nice Browns, Bow, and boli.

As pwiggelz mentioned...any reason not to spotburn that establishment? That boli certainly appears to be a gem.

 

[wildtrout2]

Congrats on a nice looking batch of early season wild browns, and yes, nice pics as usual. Can a bit jealousy be blamed for only 4 or 5 replies to this thread? lol

 

[Makee]

nice!! I was thinking about making my way up there but things came up so now I plan on going out there in 2 or 3 weeks. It is good to hear that the fishing is picking up!

 

[geebee]

That second one is a real beauty. All nice fish though.

 

[CaptainHook]

I'm new here. I want to say that these are quite spectacular photos.