Honey Creek Mifflin County
Hey guys. Any of you ever fish there? Situated in New Lancaster Valley and runs through Reeds Gap State Park. My dads family settled there around 1870 and there are still a few that live there. My aunt lives in the house my Great Grandfather built after his service in the Civil War.
Anyhow I fish it when I get the chance. They stock it with Brookies, and there are wild Browns, and Brookies too.
I have never seen the soarce, but my dad tells me it comes out of the ground as a trickle, then of coarse is fed by mountain runoff/springs which carry the real natives which the locals call wood Trout, Spruce Trout, Hemlock Trout, Natives, etc.. These are the remenants of the last ice age they say and allot of us find joy in fishing our way up a mountain brook for them.
My point being what flies would one use there? I saw some big stones, a helgermite and some BWO nymphs. My uncle has been fishing it his whole life and floats worms with an ultralight spinning setup.
He tells stories of when he was a kid (is about 66 now) of a man they would follow around who was a fly fisherman. They he always caught the biggest fish. He had a long rod, would poke it through the underbrush and dance flies to entice a bite.
There was another uncle who lived and fished there also. My uncle who I'm named after was killed in WW2. I have his letters and many of them were centered around him thinking of the stream, and the Trout he was missing out on.
Does anyone know of a hatch chart for this stream, or one relatively close I could use as a referance so I have a better idea of what to have on me when the mood strikes to head up there?
I am not against using worms, but I get much more satisfaction personally tying my own flies and catching fish with them. Any help is appreciated.
Salmo