What Creek gave YOU the best Stocked Trout Experience?

[Ewanflyfish]

The best "stocked trout experience" IMO would be catching an 18"-20" fallfish or white sucker.

agreed, they fight better

 

[Ewanflyfish]

Thanks Mike. Yes. First trip to Stover was last year a few days after the opener. No luck casting dries to the few rising fish. I put on a wooly bugger and got smashed by a nice smallie. Probably pound and a half. That was a nice surprise and a fight on 4 weight with 5x tippet.

Last week I drove up to the old mill section and checked that out. Also nice water. That may be my first stop next week.

I went over to the Perkiomen in Perkasie and wasn't impressed. I'll leave that to the bait fishermen and the kids who can fish from the park.

I'm also going to range out and give Evansburg a visit. I've never been there.

Tohickon can definitely be fun especially if you hit it when theirs not a ton of people. perkiomen is a waste of time imo, just due to the location and pressure. But you can occasionally hook into a stray stocker farther downstream where it’s not in the middle of town.

 

[td566]

Since you listed Neshaminy, have you tried Tohickon between Ralph Stover State Park and Bucks County’s Tohickon Valley Park? Quite scenic. Looks like a northcentral Pa stream, but gets warm by mid-May. Some of the Neshaminy allocation was shifted to the already well-stocked Tohickon when Neshaminy was discontinued.

Fished on the Tohickon in Ralph Stover for several years before it was stocked with trout. Quite scenic and mfine memories but like you said it warms up really quick. But then it switches to smallies which is fine by me!

My Dad was paranoid of snakes there ever since he was a scout and camped at Camp Okanickon. I never saw one in all my times fishing it.

 

[Sylvaneous]

It's my closest, best hatches and best for dry fly fishing, so I'll go with Oil Creek. It's my local stockie stream so, whatever. It is really neat to fish dries delicately to good-sized rainbows that added mass since they were stocked in March in that beautiful late May world of light, bright green and heaven-scented air next to the blooming crabapples. Go along the bike trail by foot, by bike, to a spot with many risers and no people.
Syl

 

[The_Sasquatch]

While I love Kettle, I don't fish the stocked sections very much. So by far, it's gotta be...

THE Pine.

 

[tomgamber]

While I love Kettle, I don't fish the stocked sections very much. So by far, it's gotta be...

THE Pine.

I can't help but fish near Leidy bridge at some point. It's a caddis factory.

 

[Trapshooter]

Is that Spruce Creek in the private stretches?
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Yes

 

[tomb]

Id say we've gotten over it. Now you are considered a weirdo if you are fishing dries without anything rising, andForgot nymphing with flyline is an old man's game.

Forgot about Wills Creek. Havent been there in years. Spent weeks at a time in tent . Caught many,many fish there. Great area, nice locals. in places, true wilderness

 

[caddisflyer]

I would also say Kettle and Pine because of the good hatches. The size of fish in Kettle is not as good in last couple years as it used to be. I have caught plenty of wild fish but I am just as happy fishing over rising stocked fish especially bigger ones after they have been in the creek a while. I will take a decent sized stocked one over a small wild trout any day. I tire very quickly of catching 7" trout.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

I can't help but fish near Leidy bridge at some point. It's a caddis factory.

And in a beautiful stretch, w/ a good chance of seeing elk to boot. Lots of smallies down that way in the dead of summer.

 

[Chaz]

Long ago, the first stream I ever fly fished on was Dyberry Creek in Wayne County. I caught branch for about 3 hours and 1 stocked rainbow. Many years later as I traveled allot for work I’d stop by on my way home, and would catch a few always fishing the unstocked section to have a couple of hours of fishing.
I haven’t fished. There in years and should go back. Probably during a trip to the Delaware.
These days belonging to a camp in Tioga County my favorite stocked stream is Pine Creek just about anywhere from the headwater to Coonys Flat. I have caught hundreds of wild trout on Pine Creek over the years many of them brook trout. It is 1 of only a few streams I fish that are primarily stocked water. The other stocked streams I fish are stocked streams that have plenty of wild fish.