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Got out Thursday to the local waters for a pleasant late afternoon.
Water had warmed a bit to the upper 40s, was clear but running a bit higher than is often the case. The afternoon sun brought a heavier hatch of bugs than I'd seen earlier in the season. Small tan caddis, larger grannom types, and a few Blue Quills and spinners of the latter were in the air. I took a stocked fish early on with a White Streamer, changed over to Submerger wets and got a couple of natives on #16 Tan versions and then, finally, I saw it.....The first rising trout of the season for me. Problem was, he was in a 10 foot long slick on the far side of some churning water pumping over large rocks. Challenge accepted, I managed, after 2 horrid efforts, to get a #16 Red Quill to float past him and he took. The fish was all of 7 inches long, but a native brown at any rate. I found a slightly easier taker, by a log, on the walk back to the car. In a few short weeks, Pennsylvania will be heading into prime time, with Quill Gordons, Hendricksons, March Browns, Grey Foxes and Sulfurs all doing their thing before a short burst of the really big bugs by late May or early June. I can hardly wait for the real action to begin! Tom |
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On Apr 17, 10:31*am, Tom Littleton wrote:
Got out Thursday to the local waters for a pleasant late afternoon. Water had warmed a bit to the upper 40s, was clear but running a bit higher than is often the case. The afternoon sun brought a heavier hatch of bugs than I'd seen earlier in the season. Small tan caddis, larger grannom types, and a few Blue Quills and spinners of the latter were in the air. I took a stocked fish early on with a White Streamer, changed over to Submerger wets and got a couple of natives on #16 Tan versions and then, finally, I saw it.....The first rising trout of the season for me. Problem was, he was in a 10 foot long slick on the far side of some churning water pumping over large rocks. Challenge accepted, I managed, after 2 horrid efforts, to get a #16 Red Quill to float past him and he took. The fish was all of 7 inches long, but a native brown at any rate. I found a slightly easier taker, by a log, on the walk back to the car. In a few short weeks, Pennsylvania will be heading into prime time, with Quill Gordons, Hendricksons, March Browns, Grey Foxes and Sulfurs all doing their thing before a short burst of the really big bugs by late May or early June. I can hardly wait for the real action to begin! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Tom Nice TR, but there are no native browns in Pennsylvania. |
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On 4/17/2011 6:33 PM, Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote: Tom Littleton wrote: Got out Thursday to the local waters for a pleasant late afternoon. snip Nice TR, but there are no native browns in Pennsylvania. That coincides with my own personal taxonomy of trout. Stocker - fish from the hatchery Holdover - hatchery fish which have survived from previous seasons Wild - offspring and descendants of hatchery or planted fish Native - in the stream by the hand of god and nothing else According to my taxonomy there are no native browns in North America. But wild will do. ;-) yes, you two nitpickers are correct. I should have used stream-bred browns. Which have been around long enough to consider themselves Berks County natives by nowg. Tom |
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On Apr 17, 5:33*pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote: wrote: Tom Littleton wrote: Got out Thursday to the local waters for a pleasant late afternoon. snip Nice TR, but there are no native browns in Pennsylvania. That coincides with my own personal taxonomy of trout. Like it makes a ****in' difference, ainna? Stocker - fish from the hatchery Holdover - hatchery fish which have survived from previous seasons Wild - offspring and descendants of hatchery or planted fish Native - in the stream by the hand of god and nothing else According to my taxonomy there are no native browns in North America. But wild will do. ;-) Tedious, but otherwise profoundly banal. BOO! ![]() g. |
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On Apr 17, 4:42*pm, " wrote:
...there are no native browns in Pennsylvania. Depends on whether or not one can provide a definition of "native" that hasn't already bored every thinking person in the world nearly to death for untold generations. Meanwhile, self-loathing snots appear to be native (or invasive.....like it makes a ****in' difference.....ainna?) wherever they may inflict themselves on people of modest good sense. g. who has been conducting some trifling experiments with going native in his recently adopted homeland. february ain't a good time to be out in the woods sans culottes in coulee country. ![]() |
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