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?
😆

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.

 

[falcon]

The Dyberry fly stretch used to be very nice. Several floods changed the stream not for the better.

 

[SBecker]

I put Jordan at my top. If I travel further, it's to a stream supporting wild trout. I had one of my best days ever on the creek catching over 25 trout in one afternoon. All but two went back.

I would have put the Neshaminy at the top, but it's no longer stocked due to contamination.
I liked the Neshaminy because I could fish it most evenings until the water warmed. (We are talking trout.)

My current number 2 would be White Deer Creek because it was a short trip from my mother's place and held both stocked and wild trout year round.

Heck, my 15yr old caught that in 2 hours there last Saturday. Jordan was legit one of the best stocked creeks I have fished. I fished Wehrs Dam section the first day for probably 20 years straight.

My two boys caught there first fish there and it was always the mentor day spot. Now my 15 yr old helped my 2 yr old daughter catch her first fish there.

 

[youngtroutbum]

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.

Not sure if it gets mentioned later on in this thread but I cant believe no one has said the Breaches, I get the luxury of fishing it all the time as its 5-10 minutes from my house in the Mechanicsburg area, but ive had plenty of days catching 20+ fish and caught my PB Pal of around 23-24 inches. With it not only being stocked by the Huntsdale hatchery but also YBACA there are always plenty of fish and often quality fish.

 

[Bamboozle]

The Dyberry fly stretch used to be very nice. Several floods changed the stream not for the better.

About 2000 years ago, I read an an article in the PA Angler magazine titled, "My Dyberry" (attached below).

As a clueless, suburban former Philadelphia angler, I was memorized with this story and thoughts of "far away" and exotic places in PA like the mystical "Dyberry Creek" and I never forgot the article.

Fast forward to the mid 2000's and a now much more worldly & experienced Bamboozle decided to "experience" the Dyberry I read about those many years ago. I emailed the PA Angler & Boater Magazine and asked if they could provide me with a copy of that article. The PFBC obliged and I was super excited to realize my dream and include MY Dyberry in an upcoming Pocono fishing trip...

When we arrived, I dashed upstream to the upper end of Section 03 so I could have as much of the secluded parts of this special stream to fish alone. My two buddies stayed further downstream, right by the Dug Road bridge.

The stream was beautiful and I fished intensely on pretty much ALL of Section 03 of "MY Dyberry...

And got skunked... 😳

To make matters worse, my two buddies who fished right by the Dug Road bridge (where probably most of the stockers were dumped) did great... 😡

I hate the Dyberry Creek...

 

[dryflyguy]

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

Leidy bridge is one of those magical spots where the fish seem to rise almost constanty
Morning,afternoon,or evening.
High water,low water - doesn’t matter

And the surrounding view of the high mountains, which often contain elk, reminds me a lot of being out west

 

[dryflyguy]

About 2000 years ago, I read an an article in the PA Angler magazine titled, "My Dyberry" (attached below).

As a clueless, suburban former Philadelphia angler, I was memorized with this story and thoughts of "far away" and exotic places in PA like the mystical "Dyberry Creek" and I never forgot the article.

Fast forward to the mid 2000's and a now much more worldly & experienced Bamboozle decided to "experience" the Dyberry I read about those many years ago. I emailed the PA Angler & Boater Magazine and asked if they could provide me with a copy of that article. The PFBC obliged and I was super excited to realize my dream and include MY Dyberry in an upcoming Pocono fishing trip...

When we arrived, I dashed upstream to the upper end of Section 03 so I could have as much of the secluded parts of this special stream to fish alone. My two buddies stayed further downstream, right by the Dug Road bridge.

The stream was beautiful and I fished intensely on pretty much ALL of Section 03 of "MY Dyberry...

And got skunked... 😳

To make matters worse, my two buddies who fished right by the Dug Road bridge (where probably most of the stockers were dumped) did great... 😡

I hate the Dyberry Creek...

I remember reading that article about Dyberry Creek back then too
And passed by it often on the way to the Delaware River
But with large trout of the D calling me, never tried fishing it

After I recently retired, and had more time on my hands, decided to check it on the way up there one beautiful fall day
Wasn’t very impressed, until I came to a spot called Tanner Falls

What a cool spot!
That cascading waterfall, with the old bridge over the top.
Still didn’t fish there
But what a place to hang out

 

[jifigz]

Leidy bridge is one of those magical spots where the fish seem to rise almost constanty
Morning,afternoon,or evening.
High water,low water - doesn’t matter

And the surrounding view of the high mountains, which often contain elk, reminds me a lot of being out west

I've never fished Leidy Bridge, but you just talked me into trying it. I'm always in Potter in June, which is too late for area I'm guessing. It'd be warm by then.

 

[sandflyx]

I have very fond memories of fishing the sulphur hatch on McMichael's DHALO. Lots of bugs and lots of fish hammering them.

I always like the orginal delayed harvest upstream, lots of brookies wild.

 

[sandflyx]

You're right, I think even us wild trout snobs started out fishing for stockies, I know I did. I started trout fishing (spin gear) waaay back around 1972. I fished Mill Creek more days than I can recall over a lot of years. I have many fond memories from those days! It is no longer stocked though, for reasons I won't get into.

I neglected to mention, I caught my first trout on a fly in Mill Creek.

had wild brookies in it back then