First Day of Trout: Where ya going?

since everyone needs a valium or two, let's all take a deep breath, sit back, and enjoy hearing what others are doing for the annual opener, whether that is two days for you lucky suckers out east, or one... taking the kids, wife, whole family? What are you using? Camping? Drinking? If so, what?  If you're so cool that you avoid the first day of crowds or hate trout fishing, we wanna hear that too.

I for one, will be on Oil, at the Petro-center hopefully chasing rising fish the night before the western opener with afoaf, a fellow guide, and the next day on Tionesta with my father if conditions so warrant.  We're finally shelling out the dough and getting a cabin somewhere in the area.  I'm coming after you DT.  I'm a little upset the stocking of the dhalo is later than last, as the fish may not be acclimated to aquatics just yet by then.  Hopefully Bings will give us a nice report since no one else posts pics on here anymore.

If flows aren't ideal, I'll be local, fishing the morning with the wife, and toasting the season of stockies off with a few busch light camo pounders.

                                                         ^Just kidding, word is, there are some Terrapin
                                                            IPA's floating around



first weapon of choice:
8'6'' glass 5 wt.... first dunk will either be a swung cone-headed white bugger or a high-sticked tandem; PT w. legs down to a BHPT w. no legs. 

Lively up yourselves with this video/song and fill me in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCsCbc3o9kk&feature=related

Carp fishing on valium.

Still undecided.  I would like to head back home to north-western Potter County to relive some of the first days of my past.  Depends on if I can convince my best friend to buy a license this year.  We used to hit a medium pressured small stocked stream for the first couple hours.  Then take a break for breakfast and go after wild browns for the rest of the day.

I'm open to other possibilities in case this one falls through.  Wouldn't mind trying out other places closer to Erie or maybe ANF.

we are going to battle the crowd's at Elk creek. for about 3 hour's.(catch & release we don't eat trout) & i don't want to start a trout collection in our refidgator lol.after 3 hour's of trout fishing we may hit the finger's at Edinboro lake for some crappie's (no catch & release we do eat them).

what an exciting day.

Early opener, east branchof codorus creek.
Regular opener, Elk Creek, or Stony Fork.

Somewhere around W.Chester and below Shenango.
Would like to take my grandson out but more than likely at a lake.
Then back home and hit below the dam for my yearly pilgramage.lol Good fishing all..:)

Probably go over to Elk and catch my limit (-1) early, then take said limit (-1)over to Walnut and find the flattest place below the bridge and set up with my line in the water and when anybody dumb enough to fish the Nut comes by I'll hold up the stringer (yellow rope) and tell them I only need one more and watch them go nuts. 

Tionesta creek again this year, its a yearly ritual and there are only a few things that could stop me.

ORIGINAL: streamerfisher1

waterworks on P.I with family and friends arrive early cook eggs, bacon, sausage and potatoes on the cook stove along with a pot of coffe. then after fishing back to our place for a fish fry with trout fillets, hushpuppies and freshcut fries and ice cold yiengling

Just a heads up, alcohol is prohibited on presque isle. The fine is pretty stiff.

Probably start out in fairview gravel pit pond, and end up in elk somewhere. Use nothin but hardware. Rooster tails, kast masters, vibrax spinners.

saltydog read the post it says back to our place for a fish fry with trout fillets, hush puppies, freshcut fries and ice cold yiengling and our place is not on P.I.

ORIGINAL: BloodyHand

Probably start out in fairview gravel pit pond, and end up in elk somewhere. Use nothin but hardware. Rooster tails, kast masters, vibrax spinners.

Just a friendly Christian reminder for some of us/yous/yinz.

 Alot of times fishin.... aint about the fishin....that u care about anyway.

I absolutely hate opening day of trout.....but my buddy expects me to be there...as I've been for 5 years. I'll throw my hardware.....I'll yell at the canoe that parked in front of me.....I'll be ****ed at other duuds with my buddy for their "lack of experience"...and I'll have a blast....watchin my buddy have a blast......those days are important......moral to the story.....



Don't take your fishin budies..... or thier enthusiasm for a different style for granted. Hang out with your buddy, your son, your daughter,  your brother, or your dad...even if it aint your gig....it's about the time.


tRuStMe

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I will be walking to my couch and drinking beer

Beer Camp...

ORIGINAL: flyfishindave

Big horn river in montana

 
Remember what I told you when you stopped your truck heading into Foley's at the One Fly last fall?  Double that!
 
Seriosuly, have a great time.