Hey fellow Pennsylvania Sportsmen,
Just wanted to see how everyone did on the first day of trout season. It rained here all day yesterday, so the streams were a little high and pretty muddy. Well, I started fishing in the usual manner. I waded from down stream, towards upstream, casting upstream and bringing my 1/8 ounce White Roostertail down. I wasn' t getting follows, let alone hits. Nobody was catching anything. At 8:30, I decided to switch it up and go into " crazy mode" . I started fro, upstream (right below the big hole) and walked down stream. While walking down stream, my right side of the stream was very slow water, hardly moving at all, while the left side was fairly fast riffles. I tried the slow water, thinking it might be good, because I catch most of my trout in slow water. Well, I decided to go crazy. I cast directly downstream, and VERY VERY SLOWLY reeled right up the riffles with my roostertail, and BAM. My first hit was at about 8:45 a.m. I kept using this same technique and I had my limit in about 10-15 minutes. So, I kept fishing, but, catch and release. By about 9:45, I had landed well over 20 trout. My friend who was slow drifting nightcrawlers in the riffles managed to pull out 5 trout from 8:00 to 9:45. Other than him, I saw two different guys pull out trout. One was fishing live minnows, and, in that hour and fourty-five minutes, he pulled out two. I am not sure what the other guy was using, but, he only managed to pull one trout out while I was there. At about 9:45 the fishing slowed down, they stopped on the white roostertail, so I threw on a black 1/8 ounce roostertail on and caught about 4 more by 10:15. From 10:15 to 10:30, I used a Mepps Aglia (gold blade), rainbow trout dressing. I managed to pull out two more, then, at 10:30, I called it a day. So, in the first 2 and a half hours of trout season, I landed somewhere around 30 trout. Then, I had to go home and get some rest (staying up till 5:00 a.m. when you have to be up at 6:30 a.m. is not a very wise decision
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So, how did all of you guys do?