Docsflies - Archives (August 2005)

27Aug05 - I fished Tohickon Creek below Lake Nockamixon from 10:00 - 11:00. The water was the lowest I've ever seen and heavily algaed-over. One other fishermen was fishing bait, but commented he had no luck. I only witnessed small bluegills and smallmouth bass up to 6 inches. No fish were caught.

20Aug05 - I fished the Yellow Breeches (PA) from 7:30 - 11:30 in the morning and then again from 8:00 - 9:30 in the evening. The water was slightly discolored. Hatches in the morning and throughout the day were non-existent. From 7:30 - 11:30 I managed several hits on a size 22 comparadun trico. I caught one trout on a size 10 olive wooly bugger, another on a size 16 black deer hair beetle and a third on a size 16 sulfur wet fly. The evening was fantastic. Three prolific hatches occurred simultaneously; hexagenia, white flies and small craneflies. In the course of 90 minutes I landed two and missed several others. Fish were actively feeding. At one point I saw four fish jump at the same time in a pool the size of a small room. Fish were caught on a size 16 Ausable Wulff. Other good fly choices would've been a size 8 nymph or emerger hexagenia, a size 14 White Wulff and a size 18 cream-orange cranefly.

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