dumas drake

I just responded.
 
I'm fishing tonight & tomorrow night. Maybe Thursday too. Let me no.
 
 
 
Dumas

whatr wrong with my pm thing duud/   seems a bit inconsistent.  
 
maybe its the user/

Shawn
 
I'z finishing up some trim for the bathroom last side.  Dad forgot the beltsander at home.  I told him about you coming a good ways and forgetting your rod.  Made him feel a little better. 
 
I've been fishin' out your way on a smaller springish creek.   Thickest sulphur hatch I've seen in years.  Nice fish too.  We may visit Penns for the green drake show on Saturday.

Sure thing.  What was yer plans for time ? 

k duud.  My one buddy is going to Pittsburgh and the other is a penguins freak so I was only gonna go it you were.   Some of us may fish the J Sunday evening if anyone is interested.
 
 

Will get back to you on that, Monday during the day Shawn.  Probably, don't see a reason not to. 

k.

ORIGINAL: duncsdad
  The first fish I caught was about 20.  another decent fish -- about 18. 
 

 
Yea, sounds like a ho-hum way to end the evening 
What do you catch on a good evening

Dano,
 
During the hatches, I tend to want to be about the numbers rather than the size -- unless it is a really, really good fish.
 
My cookie crumbles with the rise and hooking, not the size and fight for the most part -- knowing that I did everything right enough to fool the fish.
 
That being written, there are some fish that reside in the Little J that makes me forget about catching numbers, but those fish are measure in feet, not inches, and while not rare, rather uncommon.
 
I would take a 25 - 30 fish evening of 10 -14 inchers on dries any time over 1 20 incher.
 
The real magic comes when the nice fish (16 - 20) come during the sporadic rises before the main activity gets going and then the numbers come as fish start popping everywhere.
 
So to answer your question, a good evening is 20 plus risers with a nice fish or two thrown in.  A great evening is 30 plus with a jumbo.
 

Yep.  I sure am.  It is part of the reward for living here.  Much like putting up with 10 feet + of snow is the penalty for enjoying what the Erie area has to offer.
 
Last night was a spoiler, though.
 
I bet I didn't see 50 bugs from 7 PM (when the rain finally quit pouring down) until well after dark.  There was absolutely zero surface activity until 8:30 in one of my favorite pools.  And then there were only 4- 6 risers.  I missed one, broke off another (bad knot on my part, I am sure) and let another wrap around a rock and pull free.
 
At 9 PM, I moved to a pool near where I was going to exit the river.  There were about a dozen fish one the surface, but it was way too dark to tell if there was a lot of bug activity.  If there was, it was right near the surface because none could be seen in the air.
 
I caught two foot longs on consecutive casts and that was all she wrote.
 
Decent thunderstorms moved through last night and the time on the river was one of the most humid I can remember.  Hopefully those contributed to a real ho-hum night and not that the bugs are done.  I would like to get another week or so in before having to switch to fishing pepper grains at the butt crack of dawn.