Last week Scott asked if any of us were going to fish over the Easter
weekend. I had the good fortune to get out on the river for a spell
yesterday, Scott, so I thought I'd post a report.

This particular stream is not very rich in mayfly hatches, but has loads of
caddis. The fish seemed to be rising opportunistically, so I tied on an
emerger caddis pupa. Got a nice brown fairly quickly, then experienced a
dry spell as I moved up river. I had high hopes for the partridge and green
soft hackle I tied up for the swap this year- I've already had several fish
on the fly this spring- but nothing doing today.

At the next big hole, I decided to try a few other pupa, emerger and dry
caddis imitations. Got a good rainbow to nail that stable of PA fishing,
the green weenie, which I suppose can imitate anything from an inchworm
(later in the season) to, in this case, a "green rock worm" caddis pupa.

The fish began rising more steadily, and there were more adult caddis in the
air, so I tried out a Coachman Trude that I had tied up this winter. They
were going to be my entry for the swap, but I wasn't totally happy with
them. Turns out the trout in this stream thought they were OK. Had a very
heavy rainbow slam the fly, but I did not land him. It was a downstream
hook up, and with a vigorous leap and shake of his head, he LDR'ed himself.
I had several other fish approach the fly but turn away before taking. This
hole is fairly still water, so a fish has to be pretty aggressive to take a
fly like a Trude.

At one particularly nice looking logjam there is a big pile up of flotsam.
I swung a streamer up close to it and a very nice brown came out and took a
look at the fly, but did not take.

In all, it was a fine day on the stream, lovely weather for April and
bringing a few trout to hand never hurts.

Bill