TORE INTO THE TROUT!!! How did you do?
 

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 :D)

So, how did all of you guys do?

RE: TORE INTO THE TROUT!!! How did you do?
 

Buck. we fished a native stream, four of us including my friends nine year old. He caught the first two before any of us could even catch one, We cught about 25 fish between us with the biggest being an 11 1/2 inch brown. The rest were brookies between eight and five inches long. We kept four between us that were hooked badly and released all the others. As the crowds shrink we will start to hit the stocked streams. enjoy, juniorpc

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It was raining?? Where in PA did you fish? It was sunny and warm here all day. The Conestoga river was muddy here, so I' m guessing the smaller streams were muddy around here as well. I did not get a chance to go this week, so I' m gonna try for next weekend.

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congrats...sounds like a great day..in 2 days we fished 6 streams and were completly skunked..unless you consider my fowl hooked minnow i snagged on purpose out of bordem because it liked my gold spoon...sat we drove 3 hrs to salmon creek...nothing...tionesta creek..nothing..ross run..dad got a native but it got loose...hemlock..nothing..tried worms spoons rooster tails..dad tried panther martins..nothing! talekd to 20 some guys...all had the same story..NOTHING! i seen 2 guys on tionesta catch holdovers...pretty big trout about 16inchers..todya we had nothing to do so we wnet to 2 of the sewage water creeks they stock around here..both were slaughtered yesterday but we were bored...still guys elbow to elbow on any pool of size...we got skunked today..i dont think any of the creeks we ifshed yesterday were stocked..i think maybe becuase of all the snow up there they couldnt get back on them tiny roads to stock...thats the only sensible thing anyone said all day....water was cold and a little high on the smaller creeks...tionesta was a little higher...i cant wait for inseason fishing...it should be alot better!...i cant wait!

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I was here in Indiana County. It didn' t rain here while I was out yesterday, the night before (Friday). Mauser06, my best friend and his uncle were up on the Tionesta. Maybe you saw them, they each caught some big trout (my friend' s was a 17 6/8" rainbow, and his uncle caught a 18 3/8" brook).

I am going out to try Little Mahoning tommorow, word is that hardly any trout were caught out of there. Tommorow the water should be fairly clear, and back to normal, and hopefully the crowds won' t be there. Maybe I can go find one of the breeder Palamino' s that they put in there. I am actually thinking about buying some mice at a pet-shop and using those around a bridge that they normally put the big ones under.

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My story sounds about the same as Mauser' s. Only a few guys we talked to had caught anything....most were skunked! This is the first opener in at least 5 years that I haven' t limited.....and I didn' t even have a nibble![:' (]

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My group did reasonably well. I took 3 (missed many), one brother-in-law took his limit of 5 while the other took 4 and my father-in-law took 3 in the morning as well. We fished the lake in the mid-afternoon with no success. I probably will not get out again until next Sunday.

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I' m going to wait untill the crowds leave before I even go out...[:-]

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We fished the Yough at West Newton on Saturday. Bad idea, the water was very high. I caught one, a 14" rainbow, the rest were skunked. I fished Deer Creek, here at home Sunday afternoon and caught five in less than 2 hours, released them all. None were over 10 inches. I' ll take my daughter to Deer Lakes Park next weekend. She likes to fish with power bait and does well, but she won' t let me throw back any that she catches. She' s 5. So I end up cooking these 7-9 inch baby trout so she can say she call tell her friends she ate them.

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I haven' t had a chance to make it out yet, but I' ll be out this weekend. I take it that noone has had any concerns over what happened last season with the stocked fish.

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Let me tell you, because of the rain, it threw everything off. The streams were all high and seems that the weather threw everything off. Nobody was doing anything locally. Hopefully, after the good weather it will be great like usual.

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Went out last night....caught & released 3 ' bows. I fished for less than an hour and only hit a small section of stream. I imagine I could have easily caught a limit if I would have fished more of the stream.

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I am guessing you meant the " PCB" levels (not sure if that was the correct chemical or not but I know what you mean). As of the last time I checked there was still a one fish per week or one fish per month limit in terms of consumption in certain areas of the state. I have yet to eat any of the trout that I caught so I am not really concerned myself. I mostly catch and release the fish unless it is something really special.

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RE: TORE INTO THE TROUT!!! How did you do?
 

I fished Clover Ck. in Blair county. Caught 11. 2 right off the bat on worms and 9 with spinners. Pretty good day, the water was high and swift, but fairly clear.

I released all the fish. I rarely keep any trout. If you guys are in it for some fish to eat, go to a stream loaded with native brookies, those little buggers are the best eating you can find!

PBB

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PABowhtr, that be it, didn' t want to just blurt it out and start something. By this time last year, that' s pretty much what most were talking about .

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I was not sure about the acronym for it as most of my info on it came from two years ago. I assume it is still a concern though not as much as in recent years. I am heading out to Leaser Lake (northwest Lehigh county) tomorrow morning if it does not rain. Hopefully I will have some luck there.

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i went out tuesday after school with some friends to the sewage creek..he claims he caught 3 in one pond made by a dam in the creek monday...my one friend says he caught one but i think he found it floating or someone gave it to him because nobody seen him catch it..he just grabs a fish and says look guys!...and hes not much of a fishermen...we went back tuesday i caught one then i missed one in the pond on crawlers on the bottom...they follow lures un but no takers..they are pressured hard..then i got one of my other friends to walk about a mile and a half or so to the other side of the lake the creek runs into so i could fish the other side of the creek...get to a little run and watched on rise and sip a bug..i was like YES your mine! thros my black rooster tail into the current and it pulls it right towards the fish..i start to reel slowly..BAM! he nailed it!..i took 2 bows home that day bout about 10-11 inchers..me and the one kid that drives are goin back today with anohter kid we know that is supposedly a decint fisher so we wont have to babysit like we did the last 2 times...my one friend that drives us did catch one on a salted minnow in the creek that day..i did decint...i had the most fish of anyone i seen...normally i dont keep any but my friends wife wants some fresh fish and asked my dad if he can catch her some and he said we would..and tis is a total put and take stream and if i dont keep it someone else will and i know it wont goto waste so i dont feel bad at all...hopefully today i can pull a few out of the creek before i sit on the pond...they are supposedly stocking it today or sometime during this week they did..i heard they stocked another creek in the area thursday..but who knows when they are doing it..