Pine Creek

This should help.

http://www.flyfishingconnection.com/pinecreek.html

We're going to be fishing Kettle the second week of May. An annual tradition w/ my buddies. We'll be there for a week. We usually make it over to Pine Creek at least one day during the week. Wonder if they finally sold that store/fly shop in Slate Run yet.

Never spent more then a day fishing Pine. Breathtaking scenery. Always wanted to do a multi-day drift/camping trip. You will have access to miles of water that you could never fish wading. Have a super time, and please post your results.

What part of Kettle are you on? We take the camper to Ole Bull State Park. My second favorite campground in PA. Nice place. Ceramic showers are nicer than I have at home. Dolly (office secretary) is worth the trip all by herself. Sweeeet!

I digress. In Oleana you take SR 144 (or is it SR 44. Which ever one you are not traveling on) up the mountain. Drive I'm guessing 8 - 10 miles along the mountain top till you come to the last left turn before the Black Forest Inn. Take that road (unpaved) down the other side of the mountain (maybe 5 - 6 miles) to Slate Run. That's Pine Creek. Premier Pennsylvania fishing / camping / recreation area. It's a bit of a drive, but that's the beauty of it.

My dad and uncles used to have a cabin up on top of the mountain. It was an old CCC camp that was located on the Dyer Farm, just off of Robinson Rd. Oh, the memories of that place! Anyway, the place needed lots of work. Roof was leaking, roof rafters were rotting, floor had soft spots etc. Typical repairs for anyone that owns a cabin. The straw that broke the Camels back however was when the local township established a requirement that all cabins install new outhouses over concrete holding tanks. You also had to maintain a contract w/ a local honey dipper to pump the tank out every year. With the amount of use the cabin received (3 - 4 weeks a year) we/they wouldn't have filled that tank in a decade. Dad and his brothers were too old to take on that kind of work. Plus the expense was prohibitive. So they gave the cabin up. They never really owned it. They had a 99 year lease from the State.

The good news (I guess) is that the cabin is still standing. The State historical society moved the cabin onto the property of the Pennsylvania Lumberman's Museum down on SR 6 outside of Coudersport. The cabin has been lovingly restored (they put a fortune into it) and stands as a tribute to, and an example of the work that the CCC boys did back in 1933. I live in Pittsburgh, and many time when I'm visiting Potter County I'll take the longer route up there (along SR 6) just to pay a visit to the cabin. I see dad's (and uncles and cousins) footprints all over the place!

you might want to give this place a visit http://www.bigmeadowsflyshop.com/

terry r are you ever able to find minnows up on kettle the only bait shop i ever go in is that kettle creek shop and they never have any.  i don't even know of any bait shops that are close to me other than that one since they closed the one in cross forks a few years back

probably not till may sometime i have a couple stretches of 3 days off work and going to try to turn them into 4.  i just started fly fishing a couple years ago and have been having some success up there my biggest problem is trying to match the hatch i still have trouble telling witch flys and nymphs are witch on the water and still not that great at tying flys other than cattis and sucker spawns.  i love that creek though every year ive gotten a trout 18 in or bigger but the nices was a 14 in native brook my buddies dad caught.

We'll be at Ole Bull from Monday, 5/11 till Friday, 5/15. The are going to stock that section of Kettle on Friday, 5/8, so there should be lots-o-feesh. If you are going to be there any time during that stretch let me know. T.

Do that! Like to meet ya. I'll have at lease 3 other buddies w/ me. We have a good time. Fish, have a beer, burn some logs, retell the same old stories. Get the pic?? We usually fish the stretch of creek right behind the camp ground. Short walk from camp site. We also will head down to the FFO project. The Kettle Creek Water Shed group did a really nice job there.

Moderation my good man. No need to make a big hullabaloo. We will not bother anyone.

Do any of you guys fish hammersley,or cross fork I'll be heading up to Kettle may 4,5,6,7 with my Dad and friends and would like to try and fish these streams. or would it be better to try and hit Pine ,Slate, or young womans creek. love fishing kettle, and little kettle just wanted to check out some different waters since well have the time.

i have fished kettle were hamersley flows in and the same with cross fork creek but have never actually fished those 2 creeks.  suppose to be alot of natives in them and i think they stock crossfork creek.  like nymph said its hard to go wrong.

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thanks fellas i wish i had the whole month of may to spend up their.

 
Don't we all, haha.
 
 

ill be up kettle may 7-11 campin in ole bull....gonna help stock the DH

Cool Terry wish ya luck! My buddies are getting more excited as we get closer to next weekend as well