Yellow Breeches and/or Mountain Creek Water Levels

[Bamboozle]

I was considering spending a couple of days fishing in the Carlisle Area next week, but the recent and upcoming rainfall has me second guessing myself.

I keep records of places I fish and what the water levels were as a baseline but to be honest, for some reason I never did that for the Breeches or Mountain Creek.

Does anyone have any ideas what "normal" gauge levels are for either of those creeks?

I'm trying to save myself the aggravation of driving for 90 minutes for high and muddy when I have that right where I am. ;-)


Thanks in advance!

 

[afishinado]

Both the YB and Mountain are little high but fishable. Next week, at least earlier in the week the weather is predicted to be dry with cool air temps. If it were me, I would green light the trip. Plus Big Spring and the Letort are sure to be fishable. Good luck.

TCO stream reports:
http://www.streamconditions.com/StreamConditions_Fishing_Report.cfm?stream=Yellow%20Breeches

http://www.streamconditions.com/StreamConditions_Fishing_Report.cfm?stream=Letort%20Spring%20Run

http://www.streamconditions.com/StreamConditions_Fishing_Report.cfm?stream=Big%20Spring

Mountain Creek

Yellow Breeches

 

[JackM]

Plan A, B, C, D, and E, then go home.

 

[dryflyguy]

JackM wrote:
Plan A, B, C, D, and E, then go home.

I've been down to plan D and E several times this year.
Fortunately, things were never quite bad enough where I just packed it in and went home. Which would have resulted in me doing more work on the honey do list

 

[Dave_W]

Bamboozle wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas what "normal" gauge levels are for either of those creeks?

I've been on the creeks a fair amount lately, including Breeches today.

They're on the high side and water is a bit stained but fishable. YB is about 465s cfs today, which is well above the median for early June but the creek treated me well. If you're a nymph /streamer guy, you'll be right at home.

I usually avoid YB at levels over 600cfs but, even at that level, the upper sections are fishable (forget about lower YB at that level).

 

[just_jon]

I drove along the Yellow Breeches from Burnthouse Road to Lebo Road at it us up and muddy. Saw two spin fisherman at Burnthouse Road and 3 cars parked in the lot at Barnitz though.

 

[Bamboozle]

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

I think I am going to wait and see what the following weeks have to offer and stick close to home this week.

Thanks again all for the info!