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Old April 17th, 2011, 05:31 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Tom Littleton
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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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Old April 17th, 2011, 10:42 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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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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Old April 18th, 2011, 03:20 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Giles
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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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Old April 18th, 2011, 03:22 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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On Apr 17, 5:33*pm, Ken Fortenberry
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wrote:
Tom Littleton wrote:
Got out Thursday to the local waters for a pleasant late afternoon.
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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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