Well, it took me two days to get around to it, but here is a brief trip
report. I arrived in Coburn on Thursday morning, to find a sleeping Handyman
in the trailer already. It seems Mike S had forgone a normal evening sleep,
and left CT directly around midnight to fish at dawn. He paid for it
throughout the weekend...... By the early afternoon, we headed out to Penns.
It was low, flowing very gently, and very clear. The whole weekend
maintained those conditions with varying cloud cover, but often, it was
bright overhead, as if things weren't tough enough. Still and all, a few
risers could be seen, along with visible feeding trout lower down in the
water. It turned out, at least for me, that very small(#18-20) wet flies on
6x tippets worked as well as anything could. The first day yielded a couple
small fish, and a lot of lost flies, as my timing was WAY off. After that, a
dozen or so Penn's trout per day, ranging from 3 inches to 17 inches , came
to a collection of tan or black wets, and Pheasant Tail nymphs, all moved
gently in front of interested fish. We were joined, in the course of the
weekend by Bruce Fisher(softhackle), Frank Reid, and finally, by Mike Makela
and family. The boys threw rocks at Bruce and Frank, handily rewarding the
pittance I paid themg. All in all, it felt great to be out fishing after
about 5 weeks off, and back to Penn's after a 10 week absence. Despite
little rainfall, the place is still very much alive and well!
Tom