salvelinusfontinalis
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not gonna name the streams so im putting this report here. spending some more time exploring york county and its wild trout streams. i noticed my camera batteries were dead. i thought oh well. then i thought everytime i dont have it, i catch a nice fish. so i went and spent a fortune for new lithium batteries. i was upset at first, but im glad i bought them now! i thought today was gonna be a bust. the stream i was interested in had alot of posted land. i did manage to find a small section open to fishing. the temp registered 66 degrees. so being in the green light i started fishing. promptly i landed a wild brown trout in one cast. then another and another. this stream was pretty good for the small section i was able to fish. somebody also put some stockers in there. i did manage to land a few stocked bows. caught fish on woolly buggers, greenie weenies and adams dry flies. no hatches were apparent but some fish were rising.
then i got curious. i looked on my delorme and saw that 2 streams form the mainstem. when i got to the one stream the land was posted with red no tresspassing signs. i was disappointed until i saw the light at the end of the tunnel. fishing permitted signs! yes! so i parked and worked my way upstream. i thought this stream was a bust because of lack of holding water. the farmers drive way goes right over the stream. i nice size hole is under his bridge. i was fishing the back end of the hole (downstream side) and landed a bunch of chubs. i thought, chubs usually mean no trout. sulphurs started coming off. i put on a small sulphur and proceeded to the upstream side of the bridge. i took on cast and WHAM! what ever i had ran under the bridge and had my superfine bending in half!
just then the farmer came running out of his house yellin, "do you got him!" i said, "i got something!" i pulled the fish in and had a huge wild brown trout! the farmer was laughing and saying that fish has been under that bridge for weeks and he couldnt catch him. he both examined the fish, took a picture, and released that beauty. i thanked the farmer for keeping his land open, giving me and others the oppurtunity to catch a fish like that. he said no thanks needed. but i stressed how much anglers need more landowners like him. i promised to bring him the picture of that fish. i would say that brown measured 16 inches . she had that triangle head on her. heres the pic.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t76/salvelinusfontinalis/only%20big%20wilds/HPIM2916.jpg
anyways, i worked my way upstream and did see many more wild browns in the 12-14 inch range. they saw me also so i didnt catch them.
so far in my exploring the wild trout fishing in york has been great. still have alot more to explore! tight lines all :-D
then i got curious. i looked on my delorme and saw that 2 streams form the mainstem. when i got to the one stream the land was posted with red no tresspassing signs. i was disappointed until i saw the light at the end of the tunnel. fishing permitted signs! yes! so i parked and worked my way upstream. i thought this stream was a bust because of lack of holding water. the farmers drive way goes right over the stream. i nice size hole is under his bridge. i was fishing the back end of the hole (downstream side) and landed a bunch of chubs. i thought, chubs usually mean no trout. sulphurs started coming off. i put on a small sulphur and proceeded to the upstream side of the bridge. i took on cast and WHAM! what ever i had ran under the bridge and had my superfine bending in half!
just then the farmer came running out of his house yellin, "do you got him!" i said, "i got something!" i pulled the fish in and had a huge wild brown trout! the farmer was laughing and saying that fish has been under that bridge for weeks and he couldnt catch him. he both examined the fish, took a picture, and released that beauty. i thanked the farmer for keeping his land open, giving me and others the oppurtunity to catch a fish like that. he said no thanks needed. but i stressed how much anglers need more landowners like him. i promised to bring him the picture of that fish. i would say that brown measured 16 inches . she had that triangle head on her. heres the pic.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t76/salvelinusfontinalis/only%20big%20wilds/HPIM2916.jpg
anyways, i worked my way upstream and did see many more wild browns in the 12-14 inch range. they saw me also so i didnt catch them.
so far in my exploring the wild trout fishing in york has been great. still have alot more to explore! tight lines all :-D
