Spring Creek

I don't fish it much but I live close.  Development is certainly an issue near its headwaters.  I live a few feet from one trib.  Another headwater trib was just recently purchased by a conversation group.  However, the area streams are very very low and have been for sometime now.

I cant get any closer to living in spring creek if I tried. Ive lived on the stream for over 12 years now and heres how I see it!

1: The stream is down due to the lack of rain, plain and simple not because of development, slab cabin is a different story.
2: If you only fish benner springs, theres still TONS of escapees from the flood that were very small that are just now growing up.
3: The silt fill in of the holes you speak of I dont see much of. What fill in you do see is from floods, the stream really hasnt changed that much.
4: Hatches seem to be fewer, and all my drift samples have a serious lack of scuds which are a spring creek staple. Notice that the grass is gone from years past? Thats why the scuds are gone! The major hatches I see are the ones people arent fishing. I have yet to see a good caddis hatch this year.
5: Fish other sections, I think the fish size has actually risen, Im seing bigger browns then ever. Ive had a few over 20 this year.

The fish in spring creek have seen every fly pattern known to man. 7x tippet is seriously sometimes needed and to catch really big fish you almost have to fish at night when the crayfish are active, the water is cooler, they move into feeding lies that they dont get in during the blazing heat.

Change your tactics and you will see different results. Im not gonna say where I was the other night but to say I had 100 fish rising around me would be an understatement. Ill give you one clue.... they were not all trout!

Im not offended in any way what so ever. Yes the hatches are reducing in size, ive noticed it also. My personal feeling on that one goes back to the floods, the lower section of the creek still has lots of grass. The upper parts dont. I think they've washed out or maybe theres an upstream source leaking somthing into the water. It sure wouldnt be the first time. You can thank PSU for the fact that we no longer have a Green Drake hatch.

Whats a white brown?

That's a brown trout after a hit of crack.  haha

ORIGINAL: troutfisher

Whats a white brown?

 

Looks like a strain from Argentina to me...

ORIGINAL: duncsdad

Any tricos yet?

 
I saw a few on the Frankstown Branch 2 weeks ago. I noticed last year the tricos on the Frankstown started exactly one month before the tricos started on the LJ and SC.