Penns Creek

Locally, although the water is high it is from rains that are definitely of
the spring variety.

I'm getting readings of 43-44 degrees. Local rivers with
smallmouth....won't be long now!

john
"Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote in message
...
I heard tell there might be a couple of folks heading to Penns this
weekend.
Hmm, fishing might be a bit off:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?01555000

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Frank Reid
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Yes, I believe what Mike was saying is that the first clave was welcomed in
by spring rains that started a month before the first clave, and that since
that time the spring rains have NOT started a month before the clave....the
rains in other years besides this and the first - have started in
conjunction with the clave....

soo..mayhap the weather will be closer to what it was like for the first
clave, if not better.

I really enjoyed that first clave, it was like a cram course in fly
fishing....saw my first bona fide hatch and such..

john

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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Mike Makela wrote:



Seems to be just about a month before the first clave it started
raining,
and hasn't started since..

huh???

"asadi" wrote in message
m...
Yes, I believe what Mike was saying is that the first clave was welcomed
in
by spring rains that started a month before the first clave, and that
since
that time the spring rains have NOT started a month before the
clave....the
rains in other years besides this and the first - have started in
conjunction with the clave....

soo..mayhap the weather will be closer to what it was like for the first
clave, if not better.

I really enjoyed that first clave, it was like a cram course in fly
fishing....saw my first bona fide hatch and such..

john

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:zbR2e.72545$7z6.24322@lakeread04...
Mike Makela wrote:



Seems to be just about a month before the first clave it started
raining,
and hasn't started since..

huh???



We always need the rain, it's good that we get it, just not as much as we
have been getting the past few years. The one plus in the drought years is
that the hatches seemed to be more concentrated, if you caught them, they
were the best you could expect. With all this rain, it throws everything
off. Last year I saw a few Hendricksons around when the sulphurs started
to show up, that's messed up...it's hard enough with 5 or 6 larger flies
coming off, none-the-less the rest of the early season mayflies.

We're in for a doozy tonight into Sunday, looks like the worst of it will be
passing North and West of here, which doesn't fare well for Penn's. They
make take on some water in Coburn this weekend. They're battening down the
hatches on the Delaware too.

Good news is next week looks dry most of the week, at least that's what they
think..

The Finn

We always need the rain, it's good that we get it, just not as much as we
have been getting the past few years. ......

We're in for a doozy tonight into Sunday.....

The Wilkes-Barre-Scranton TV station was broadcasting on its "crawl"
this (Sunday) morning a constant stream of advisories of stream
levels, road closings, evacuations, etc.

Sporadic mini-blizzards today in central PA.

Right now, flow on Penns is 3,780 cf/sec; normal is about 800.

Good news is next week looks dry most of the week, at least that's what they
think..

Several days of at least partial sun are still forecast, temp up to 70
on Wednesday, which should dry things out a bit.

vince

Frank Reid wrote:
I heard tell there might be a couple of folks heading to Penns this
weekend.
Hmm, fishing might be a bit off:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?01555000

--
Frank Reid
Reverse email to reply


I may go. They are calling for more rain towards the end of the week
so the graph will again take on a positive slope . I want to prep
my trailer for spring and summer however so fishing will be secondary.
If there's time I may hit Spring Creek as I heard it is fishing well in
parts. There's always Fishing Creek. White Deer Creek might be a
possibility too.

Anyone who wants to head up on the 20th or thereabout(2 weeks from
tomorrow), will probably find the Handy One and myself in camp.

Thomas Littleton wrote:
Anyone who wants to head up on the 20th or thereabout(2 weeks from
tomorrow), will probably find the Handy One and myself in camp.


Tom, I am going to try and make it up there then too (4/21). I am bid
on a major project at work and if we hear positively in the next week
or so I may not be able to make it. That's one of the reasons I am
going up this weekend.

I do look forward to fishing with you and trying some of those flies we
discussed on the phone a number of weeks ago.

"Thomas Littleton" wrote in message
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Anyone who wants to head up on the 20th or thereabout(2 weeks from
tomorrow), will probably find the Handy One and myself in camp.



heading up this weekend I think, just to poke around with Dan and maybe
Bruce if he's around.