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| Size 22 zebra midge did the trick on a dozen or more pretty wild browns. |
I learned my lesson about ice yesterday and targeted a popular southeastern Pennsylvania limestoner for a productive 3 hours today. After doing some work at home and running a couple errands, I arrived on the stream about 12 PM and fished until 3 PM. The air got as warm as 46 degrees according to the Subaru’s display (and a couple banks I passed on the way home) and the water was a great 48 degrees, which was quite an improvement over yesterday.
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| No signs of ice today. Water was a good 48 degrees. |
The fish were still small, as they often are on this creek, but a couple were decent, including the one who hit a streamer and got away from the camera. Ward teased me yesterday that I should be chasing chubs at the creek we used to hand-line for bait (and just for fun) when we were kids, implying correctly that my first fish of the year were tiny. I had the last laugh (he was working!) when I sent him a pic of my biggest fish of the day, a huge chub .
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| For Wardman... |
My only company was some deer and some dog walkers. One crazy lab took a quiet bath across the creek from me at one point. He was more courteous than some fisherman, though, just gently sitting down in a shallow pool, so I didn't have the heart to shoo him away. I ended the day with at least a dozen little browns in a couple deep winter holes, most on the 18 or 20 zebra midge. One decent one ate a stripped bugger by an undercut bank, and one other took a slightly larger pheasant tail from which I had dropped the zebra midge.
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| Nice colors on this little guy. |
I caught a few fish gently snap-jigging the nymphs, which was interesting. I guess the bigger pheasant tail got their attention, and then they took the easy meal of the midge when they swam over to investigate. Or, I was successfully making it look like a midge hatching.... The fish were active for a while, revealing themselves with flashes close to the bottom, though that could have been the chubs, which I caught a bunch of too.
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| Today's average size. |
After exploring a bit and finding another couple of deep holes to target later this winter, I called it quits after landing one more colorful wild brown, the smallest of the day and probably only last year's brood. All in all, it was a great day despite the lack of size. What they lacked in size they made up for with beauty and, more importantly, a willingness to cooperate with me on a winter weekday!
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| Ended with the smallest of the day. |
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