fished really well. Put in a half day and got a dozen fish. The last one, pictured here, was the 2nd highlight of the day. Landed him below the step dam on my dropper fly.
The highlight was helping a new guy to the club get his first fish. A 22″ beauty above the lower quad bridge. Met his son Tom last year and was happy to meet his dad, give him a few pointers, and see him catch and land such a nice fish. Made my day for sure.
to the club with fishing buddy, Al.
It took me a good hour to get bit. Think it had to do with the sun angle on the water and the locations I fished. My first bite was followed on my second cast with 2 nice bows. Then it was a fish periodically throughout the day.
Fished the top of the property and had 2 doozies of a birds nest that cost me 2 complete line changes and at least 30 min of fishing time.
The creek was just perfect, a tad cold, and I got out fished by one by Al. At least he can’t shoot 3’s as well as I can….lol.
Will upload some pics today.
Creek started off with a bang as I caught a fish on my first cast. Usually this means a lousy day, but it was anything but that.
I did catch quite a few all on traditional nymphs. But the one that got away….was at the boulder hole. I hooked a beaut that took me around a fallen tree and upstream. I could not climb out of the water to get around a tree, nor could I walk around it from the shore as the water was too deep. I waited him out and he swam out! I started him toward me, when once again, he ran around the same tree and I waited another 5 min or so…until he put on a big surge and the fly popped out.
I had another huge loss while fishing off the walking bridge, but that’s another story for another time.
All in all it was a banner day, the action was continuous, cold, uncrowded and the creek as an 11.
starting on Chautauqua Creek and arrived to a perfect 10 creek. No one there, green tint, perfect flow, and no fish.
Since the day was young i went over to sixteen mile in Erie and shared the stream with 2 kids from Pitt. Good guys and good fisherman. We had some action in low, clear, and cold conditions. I hooked 6 fish and landed 4 of them, 2 of which were really nice and fresh fish.
I just can’t figure out Chautauqua Creek, though. Blanked 3 times in a row. It just doesn’t figure.
Did leave today in a snow storm. Hope to fish the club on Sunday. Until then……
PS…thanks for the tech help, MG…..Dad
fished until noon. Since the water was low, thought I would concentrate on getting a couple of the “bigs” that swim the water at the club.
Got the first one at the curve. A nice rainbow that I got on video. The second came from the hole above the lower quad bridge, he just hit the 20″ mark.
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The last one came from Al’s rock, a beauty of a brown. The pics of him aren’t great, but the video I shot is. The cool thing, Al and I had a double there.
The creek, weather, and the fishing were just awesome this morning. Will try to get back up midweek.