Clarion....what to expect?

A few of my students have camps up that way. They say smallies, ton of perch, occasional walleye...and trout!....good luck to ya

my camp is in clarington, cherry run road, no doubt
your renting from tom also on cherry run, any how
head up river on river rd. you come to millstone creek where
they stock trout and if you turn left there you can fish it all way to loletta
but to stay on clarion go right there and go to bridge at rt 949 , i would
not cross bridge but stay on river rd. where you can start fishing all way
to spring creek , where the bridge is out , there are numerous wall
hanger trout in that area along with bass, walleye, cats,etc.
  while there stop at the halton hilton for a brew you won't forget

The Halton will make you trip

Ahhh, the Halton Hilton.
A true American Classic.
 
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my camp is in clarington, cherry run road, no doubt
your renting from tom also on cherry run, any how
head up river on river rd. you come to millstone creek where
they stock trout and if you turn left there you can fish it all way to loletta
but to stay on clarion go right there and go to bridge at rt 949 , i would
not cross bridge but stay on river rd. where you can start fishing all way
to spring creek , where the bridge is out , there are numerous wall
hanger trout in that area along with bass, walleye, cats,etc.
while there stop at the halton hilton for a brew you won't forget

 
Good info thanks! Looks like the cabin isn't far from Cherry run, it's right off of Belltown/ River road. I am stoked!

Queen is watchin the river gage. She says she is takin no prisioners this weekend if they dont get anymore rain....WF

Go to face page on FishErie, click link to weather and waves, click on US gauges of pa, click on whatever river you want to see on the state map and there it is....WF

Well, I gotta say overall that Clarion was extremely disappointing. Our cabin was on a beautiful stretch of river that you would think would be loaded with fish, however it wasn't.
 
I managed to nab a nice smallie around 15", however this was 3 miles up from the cabin in some deeper water. The only thing caught at the cabin stretch was a baby smallie the first day, and a rainbow the last day. It seems the river has a certain 'sterility' factor that does not allow much bug/ fish food life. Saw very little activity, mostly carp jumping out of the water. The lack of fish food theory was proven correct when my father cut open the belly of the trout....no nymphs/ flies, just a mess of these ugly looking beetles and a Yum Dinger that fell off my hook earlier that day. We threw everything we had....father had no luck at all fly fishing, I tried everything in my arsenal. It's not that the fish weren't biting, there just weren't fish there.
 
Caught a nice brookie right at the mouth of Millstone creek, but didn't have any luck upstream and there were signs everywhere saying closed for fishing due to potential dam problem.
 
I definitely think there's something contributing to the lack of fish food in the river, I was also pretty dumbfounded that there weren't even any mosquitoes.  The river also seemed to be lacking plant life, no greenery whatsoever just straight rocks. Are there any chemical plants or factories around the area? 
 
 

its cut off from the allegheny river by the Piney dam near clarion. So its basically a closed population  of fish. Pretty silty river too and the lower reaches are affected by AMD. There is decent bug life in the riffles, but nothing compared to the allegheny. Ive heard the upper end of the clarion near belltown and above is much better. But around clarington and south its not the best.
 
Pictures pop up every year of a few random, large fish. But i think they are far and few between. Ive fished up there since I was little, and its always been a tough fishery. Unless ur dunking worms..
 
Again the far upper reaches seem to be much more productive from what ive seen and heard..
Still a pretty area to get away for a while.
 
"What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.”-Aldo Leopold.

90% of the fish are in 10% of the creek. Fish the 10%.

Good job Queenie!