Elk Creek and Walnut Creek Steelhead start dates?

September, not so much. Not worth the drive til at the earliest early-mid October. November is better.

One year I caught 15 in Walnut on Labor Day weekend but each year is different.  I have never had a weekend like that again.   Including the pancakes and sausage.
 

fish whisper

The Makean hole is loaded

 
Any Proof? sounds fishy

lots of steel in ohio if you walk a few miles up from the mouth.same in walnut and elk.get past the mud hole and manchester and you will find fish.wear some tread off your boots or sandles in this weather.cant stand seeing people fishing in sight of the mouths  anytime after september.bash me trash me who gives a sheeiat,but there is plenty of fish in all the bigger tribs of every great lake NOW
 

treefrog20045

lots of steel in ohio if you walk a few miles up from the mouth.same in walnut and elk.get past the mud hole and manchester and you will find fish.wear some tread off your boots or sandles in this weather.cant stand seeing people fishing in sight of the mouths  anytime after september.bash me trash me who gives a sheeiat,but there is plenty of fish in all the bigger tribs of every great lake NOW

Well I won't bash or trash you, but I have been walking way up Walnut and there is certainly NOT a lot of steel. Oh, yes, you may have a wanderer--or even a hold over. But no, there is not "plenty of fish" there. The simple fact is that fish cannot walk or climb. A steelhead needs 2 feet of depth to jump two feet up a  waterfall, there is no way that anything much has gotten past the falls above Manchester. I can't speak to Ohio, I do not know the creeks there at all.
 
Perhaps you are speaking from past experiences in September? We have had some good years in the past when surprising numbers have made it pretty far up.

There has been quite a few steelhead caught in the Ohio tribs already.  Definitely not a lot, but there has been fish caught with pics as proof.  Keep in mind the Ohio streams are bigger and deeper so it's easier for the steelhead to move into them with the lower water levels.

flyfisherman

+1 Craig,

I highly doubt any steelhead could make it up to where we last met this early in the year....good water if you put on the hiking boots!

 
Yep! And that is how far I've been walking too. There is a whole lot of low water between here and there.

For the past 4 years I've been taking my young son ~ Sept 16th as it's his birthday and we've been legally catching  a few at the falls on Walnut. Very small pods ~ 8-15 as far as we could see. No, it was never worth a couple hours drive, but for the experience of the weather, amount of people and father-son time, well, as the commercial goes : priceless. Yes, there are days when it can be very good  early in the year because of conditions, but overall October-November would be a better choice or even December. In any event, GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!

any fish in the creeks?
 

I heard there were some big stupid honkin' Walleye to be caught in PA waters yet though, along with a bunch of boring 12" Perch.  Please, lets drag this hot miserable summer out even longer and talk about these species more.   

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PHOTOJIM

No, it was never worth a couple hours drive

I tend to disagree.  First I love the time spent on a creek even if I don't get anything  Second.... Time with the son.  Enjoy it now.  My son moved to NYC in January and I have only seen him twice this year. ( He is doing Great }Two weeks before he moved we spent a day of Steelhead fishing and I loved it.

A clarification is in order and the confusing statement was my error.
If you read my total post [and I know you did], I wrote because of the weather, limited amount of peeps on the water and father-son time as all being priceless. So yes, I do recognize the importance of "enjoy it now" as you stated. I do very much enjoy family time and have noted it many times in my posts. My 13 year old son and 9 year old daughter can often be heard telling their friends or me "catching fish is icing on the cake". They actually say that, but you know where they heard that from. We always enjoy time on the water, no matter what, even when one of us slips and falls in. It doesn't happen very often, but it is funny! I probably should never have written "it was never worth a couple hours drive". The point I was attempting to make was that there were better times to catch fish and in general it would be more productive if one were to wait until Oct-Dec  [which I already alluded to later in the post]. I apologize for the miscommunication.

spoonchucker

How many flys will the only fish at the stop sign hole, have in it's arse?

 
It had two, now it has three. I just got back in.

October is fast approaching. Iv been itching for the steelies since March
 

are the snagr's up to rte 5 yet?