If  higher and cooler water persists may be back in a couple of weeks.
Perhaps a Steel or two will cooperate.
A fresh Ho would be outstanding.
Still wont keep any- lol.

+ 1,000

I have next Wednesday off ant unless it is a downpour I will be putting in some hours
 
It spit a bit of snow Today but nothing stuck

Snowing at my deer camp and ice fishing spots . Weather has changed .
I might take a poke for a day or 2 on the river as well

It was snowing to beat the band this AM, and the forecast called for freezing rain, so we headed home early and checked small ditches along the way, very few fish seen.  We did 6 hours in the Pineville area yesterday, there are a lot of zombie salmon around but no chrome were observed.  I think next week you will start to see a lot of deads, LFZ has a lot now, downriver the kings that are left are pretty beat up, and we did not observe any active spawners.   

There was a crew of "visual" fishers in the riff above where we fished.  According to twobob they have been there for the last few weeks when he has been up, and they commented that the fish went from fresh and active to nearly dead in the last week.  I think the good push a couple of weeks ago and the high water made for a quick turnaround on the gravel, and many washed downriver with the high flow.  I had one hen king grab a flesh fly yesterday, and it was like reeling in a sack of spuds with a toy boat motor on it.  Popped my fly, righted her, and she stayed in shallow the rest of the day.  You could tell there were a lot of salmon by the way the chop moved around, but they were basically just holding in the flow.  And the drop in temperature was not to my liking at all, made me think I better get the Christmas shopping done!

3 " plus here at homestead . Even broke out the shovel I. Which was only a broom all last year . While I like the cold , hope it's not a sign of things to come .
Thanks for the weather thread L -13

Supposed to have a contractor here today to put in a window and a new storm door, but now he is saying Sunday, maybe Monday, when I want to be on my way back to O'county.  Forecast says mid 60's  Monday, 70 Tuesday here in Rochester, take 10 off for P town and it is still nice weather for swinging flies.

Well all the snow has melted today . It's still pretty brisk and we are heading off to the annual Halloween party at the pub with our long time friends band Cryptical Development . These guys have played together since high school and reall know how to jam !! Many things to do this weekend but I have a feeling I will be riding the couch tomorrow .
Deer camp next weekend , then possibly , a trip to the Great Lake tribs the following but that's a big maybe .
If there are good folks around , that might make the trip more inviting

I had a great weekend, but it had less to do with the fish, than the fishermen. I looked around, but only fished the UFZ. Found lots of dark kings and got some to eat flesh flies and pale  blue or cheese eggs. Took pictures for some, had fish netted for me, had NO acrimonious political discussions, even though it was brought up. The upper had zero garbage, zero azzhats. Unfortunately, no trout in sight. There were a few fresh cohos that made it to Altmar, I saw one on a rope and heard of a few others down river. I looked and fished in some of the spots that normally would be holding steel at this point of the salmon run, but they were simply not there.  Upper river was fairly crowded, seemed a little less down. DSR reports were pretty dismal.  I drove up to the reservoir and it appears bank full. 500-750 is my favorite flow, but it sure didn't produce any favorite fish. I only have a cursory knowledge of the migrations, so I won't speculate on the  lack of trout, but I, like hundreds of others ,will be waiting for better reports before I decide on another trip. I must admit I was a little perplexed at the amount of available food in eggs and flesh not being taken advantage of by steelhead.  Weather? Cloudy, a few periods of light rain. Perfect. It darn near was.

Erie is slow as well.

Jack and Bear, please keep me posted, as I've yet to venture west of Oz. I've talked about Erie trips, this year may be it. Thanks. Who knows? Thousands of steel and browns may be staged up ready to bolt upriver, but, somehow I think it may remain on the slow side. For myself, this year was striper redemption, so I can't complain about fishing as a whole. Sure would be nice to get my second favorite, those  chrome   fish, though.

Glad ya had a good time Charlie-too bad about the Steel situation.

Heavy frost this morning and the waters of the great beaver ponds has skimmed over with ice.

27 degrees as the sun comes over the tree tops, here in my little piece of the PA. wilds.

Weather Dude says to expect plenty of the gorgeous day, now taking place, in my back yard. Temperature to be in the low 50s with 8 MPH wind from the SSW.

Been plenty of "wooly buggers" this year with all seen to be very black at the leading end and totally brown at the trailing end.

Page 101 paragraph 13; sub paragraph HS of the BTDT Book of BS says the markings on the "Wooly Buggers" this year, indicate Winter is gonna happen within the next few months.

Gotta go, need to ready the Fish Hawk to do some late evening fishing by the light of the Super Moon.

After mentioning Wooly Buggers and how dark they are on just one end, I have come to notice, a lot of woodchucks out and about.

Early Spring or long late winter? 😕