Mill Creek Near Ligonier

Anyone fish it recently?

I was there within the past week and I think there may have been some kind of kerosene spill. There was a visible oil sheen on the surface of slower pools and the area smelled strongly of kerosene. I can't recall hearing anything about it, but maybe someone here has?

...the one in Ligonier...to my knowledge the only one in Ligonier...

ORIGINAL: tippecanoe

I haven't heard anything cold, but keep us posted

I'll try, but I don't even know how I'd go about finding information on this one.

I managed to catch one small brown, possibly stream-spawned, but that was right at the mouth of a feeder, in a deep pool. Didn't see another trout the entire evening. One possible consolation is that I didn't see any dead fish either, so if there indeed was a spill, it's likely that the fish moved either into feeders or downstream to the Loyalhanna. I'm not really sure how it would affect the insect life.

I hope that whatever it is, it's a one-time thing. Someone somehow lost a gas can or something like that. The oil on the surface was enough that the rainbow-swirly sheen was clearly obvious...you didn't have to catch the light the right way or anything, it was right there.

Thanks man. Maybe I'll do that after work today. Hope its nothing serious.

Ah, yeah, I know which on you mean. I was just poking a little fun at the naming of creeks, being that there is at least one "mill creek" in every county from Tennessee to Nova Scotia.

Not sure about the inhabitants of that creek, but at the one I was fishing they were pooling up very densely and starting their mating. A couple of females, then several dozen males. It was a long way between pools like that, with a couple odd ones here and there, but when you found them, you found them all.

I hope that what you observed doesn't affect their reproduction.

I heard from a good source that some one along the creek had their buried fuel oil tank filled & not long after it was filled a hole developed from rusting & released 500 gallon in to the creek

That sucks. I was planning on hitting that creek tomorrow.