What Creek gave YOU the best Stocked Trout Experience?

[JeffP]

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 that article!

 

[wcosner2]

Will be standing on the Dyberry on Saturday as is family tradition. Many great memories on that stream and one I am glad I have been able to fish often. Hoping to get a buddy on some stocked fish there rather than myself but for me, one of the best stocked trout experiences is a stream I will not name in Pike County. One section that is stocked is some of the fastest water that we at least still consider fishable. It was always neat to show up there halfway through opening day and still be able to catch a few fish that less-skilled anglers had walked past. It is still one of my favorite streams overall.

 

[JimKennedy]

If you've fished one meat hole, you've fished them all. And they're fun every once in a while.

 

[Tups]

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...

Bam: Thanks for sharing that article, which seemed familiar to me. Well written in the old hook and bullet fashion once so popular. I queried the author, whose name was Gerhard A. Eastby from Newton, NJ. He was a professional writer who died in 2018.

In the late 80s through the nineties I fished Dyberry regularly when I had a cabin in Ararat, Susquehanna County. The author doesn’t mention them but We once hit a tremendous Memorial Day hatch of Green Drakes on the FFO reach of Dyberry. The fishing for stock fish and a few wilds was tremendous, one after another. Thanks for the memories. I haven’t been back there in over 25 years.

 

[fatoldman]

The Little Beaver near Enon Valley. I grew up near where this creek joins the Ohio river but never fished it further upstream for trout till my early 20's when a good friend took me with him. Another good friend also fished the same area. Both of them had fished there all there lives with their dads but didn't know each other till I introduced them streamside. We used to have a lot of fun fishing with the kids. Now we have all three fished there with our grandkids. The part near where I grew up is in Ohio, downstream from East Palestine. Haven't been there since the derailment.

 

[Highstickdrifter]

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.

I agree with young trout bum, I know the Yellow Breeches may have lost a little luster over the years (especially the “run” out of Children’s Lake, which has been decimated due to renovations of the dam). However, for me, in the late ‘70’s, as a Marylander just getting into fly fishing, the Breeches was an exotic Mecca of trout fishing within a reasonable drive from my home. Between Big Hunting Creek in Thurmont, Md., and the Breeches, I have wonderful memories of of catching beautiful rainbows,browns and brookies on store bought flies, and then later, my own creations. While I currently value the pursuit of wild salmonids, I still enjoy catching some commercially raised creatures which fill the void when limited by time and geography.