What Creek gave YOU the best Stocked Trout Experience?

[Mike]

. If you think it's bad now with stocking over wild fish, you'd have had a stroke back then!

🤣

Additionally. to answer troutbert’s question, out of the hundreds of stocked trout that my 3 dorm-mates and I caught over a three spring time span from mid-April to early June, I don’t think any of us ever caught a wild trout.

 

[Swattie87]

NCPA is abound with excellent big stream stocked trout opportunities. Add in a wild trout component and in many cases excellent smallmouth fisheries, there are abundant angling opportunities on many of these streams. What I would call my favorite hasn't been mentioned yet. It is hard to go wrong on Pine or Kettle though I wouldn't pass up any of the other larger freestoners that are nearby.

Give me two guesses, but I bet I’ll only need one. 😉

 

[Tigereye]

In no special order

Broadhead
Lackawaxen
Lehigh
Fishing Creek (Columbia Co)

 

[sixfootfenwick]

I think some of you have misinterpreted the question. I think. I am not asking which stocked trout stream has given you the best fishing, because many of our truly amazing wild trout streams are stocked, but which stocked stream has provided you with the best fishing experience only for stockies. If I am wrong in my assumption, then please carry on.

Oh in that case.....
nope I'm still going with Pine Creek.
Excellent hatches, great scenery, a larger "river" and stocked to the gills.

 

[Mikey2006]

Didn’t read all of the previous replies so idk if it’s been said already but the falling spring delayed harvest section for sure. Great dry fly action in the summertime, and other than the first couple of days after stocking the trout get very tricky to catch. This combined with the occasional wild makes for a nice section of stream

 

[TroutHunter814]

If I had to pick one, I’d say the Little Mahoning. That’s where I taught myself how to fly fish back in the 80’s it was my destination stream to get to in an unreliable car, and limited resources. lol.

 

[jifigz]

Oh in that case.....
nope I'm still going with Pine Creek.
Excellent hatches, great scenery, a larger "river" and stocked to the gills.

Pine is definitely a stocked trout fishery that gets hammered. I've never fished Pine except at Ansonia and just downstream..I didn't love it there. I should try it further downstream.

As a side note, there was more knotweed there than I've ever seen anywhere else in my life.

 

[rustbeltwilds]

BILLS creek BEST ever 😅😅😅😅😅

 

[jifigz]

BILLS creek BEST ever 😅😅😅😅😅

That's where I'm going to be opening day..I just got a jar of Mike's salmon eggs in shrimp flavor. Will I see you there?

 

[Bamboozle]

Clark's Creek, I miss it a LOT!!!

Big Bushkill, FFO, many, many 30+ fish days

McMichael's Creek, anywhere but usually Section 06

Pocono Creek, Section 06

French Creek, Chester County anywhere EXCEPT the FFO section

 

[lycoflyfisher]

Give me two guesses, but I bet I’ll only need one. 😉

Give it a shot! I wont give any visual or descriptive clues to aide your sluething 🤣

 

[jifigz]

Give it a shot! I wont give any visual or descriptive clues to aide your sluething 🤣

He's one heckuva sleuth...

 

[Mikey2006]

That's where I'm going to be opening day..I just got a jar of Mike's salmon eggs in shrimp flavor. Will I see you there?

Try bread. Flatten it around a trout magnet jighead so it’s tightly packed on there and covers the entire hook except for the barb and the point of the hook. Float it under one of those trout magnet bobbers and you won’t believe how many you will catch

 

[DomR]

2 streams we fished a lot when I was a teen into my 20's were my favorites. Upper Lackawaxen from Honesdale to Hawley, terrific Hendrickson and caddis hatches back then. (I haven't been there in 25 years, how are they now?) and the Bushkill in the Winona Falls road area (nice March Brown hatch). The Broadhead and Lehigh ate my lunch, I never truly dial them in.

 

[Swattie87]

Give it a shot! I wont give any visual or descriptive clues to aide your sluething 🤣

The one east of Pine, but west of the Sock.

 

[greywolf]

Fishing creek in Sullivan county. Scenery is really nice including some big waterfalls, and even though stocked years ago, you could walk far enough to get away from any crowds.

 

[lycoflyfisher]

The one east of Pine, but west of the Sock.

That narrows it down, but there are still multiple options there, especially if you include stocked tributaries 🤣

 

[Jake41]

Tulpehocken when it used to be stocked with fingerlings. Excellent caddis hatch all spring and when those fingerlings grew up they were full of energy and tough to catch. Also used to work in Reading so it was very convenient for evening fishing after work.

Clark’s Creek before all the trees fell into the stream. Cold water. Rising fish all spring and summer. Good terrestrial fishing. Always felt somewhat remote and in the mountains even though it was so close to Harrisburg.

Quittapahilla. Just honed my skills there and the DHALO used to have nice stocked browns all summer long.

Muddy Creek. Was much better when they stocked browns. Don’t go as often. Can’t get as motivated to catch those ugly rainbows the state stocks now.

You are right about those fingerling trout. Very spunky. I wish they would continue the program.

 

[Swattie87]

That narrows it down, but there are still multiple options there, especially if you include stocked tributaries 🤣

I just meant the major main stem watershed in between them. Sounds like I’m on the right track. 😉

 

[Swattie87]

I just meant the major main stem watershed in between them. Sounds like I’m on the right track. 😉

If it’s a trib, I can certainly imagine you having a very Pleasant time fishing there.