Late Fall Fishing
I know it has been a while since my last post but I have been busy getting ready for the birth of my second child. She came the day after Thanksgiving and my wife, daughter, and I are thrilled that she is finally with us. Of course I am hoping she will become interested in Fly Fishing.
Before she was born I had an opportunity to spend a couple hours fishing with by friends on Irondequoit Creek in my home town. Irondequoit Creek is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is stocked with Brown Trout and gets a regular run of Salmon and Steelhead every fall. My friend Wil and I started fishing with some small beadhead nymphs and we able to pick up a couple Browns right away. As we were fishing we heard a of splashing down stream. It wasn’t long before a nice sized salmon was swimming right past us on his journey upstream. We eventually caught up with him in a hole further up stream but he was in no mood to take our flies. My friend Wil and Craig caught a few more small browns and we called it the day. It was a great way to spend a couple hours on a beautiful Western NY fall afternoon.
A week later I was on my way to visit an old friend in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. We fished some private water on a creek called the Tobyhanna. It was a cold Friday afternoon and the wind was moving over the Poconos at a good clip. We started fishing with a stimulator and a beadhead nymph. The stimulator got almost immediate attention for me but I was unable to hook up. I was eventually able to hook a nice 14″ rainbow on a pheasant tail nymph but was unable to keep him on the line. My friend was able to catch several nice fish and even caught one a few feet up stream of me. The Tobyhanna is a beautiful creek and reminds me of an Adirondack creek named West Canada Creek. It is full of nice fish and I probably would have caught plenty of trout if I had paid attention to the size of my tippet. Unfortunately I discovered that I was using 3x tippet and that really discouraged the fish from taking my assortment of stimulators. Even so I really enjoyed my time on the Tobyhanna. Thanks to my friend Andrew for spending a Friday afternoon to take me out on this beautiful Pennsylvania creek.
