Opening Day Come and Gone
April 23, 2010Well, the Opening Day of the 2010 trout season in Pennsylvania has come and gone, and the Spruce Creek Fly Co. had some fine angling and some fine anglers. Not only were the anglers who we hosted good fishermen, they were even better people. I thoroughly enjoyed my time on the water with all of my clients during the Opening Day weekend. I hope to see you again soon!
We saw the end of the Grannom hatch, lots of tan caddis, and some BWOs. While we did see some rising fish, in my opinion not enough trout were rising consistently to quit nymphing. 
The majority of the trout taken were on these sub surface patterns:
Cranefly larva
Walt’s Worms
Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear (mine are all of the gold bead head flashback variety)
Caddis larva
As you might expect from the list above, we did have some success with these surface patterns:
Grannom caddis
Elk Hair caddis
LaFontaine sparkle pupa emerger
And the reward for our effort was lots of beautiful Central Pennsylvania brown trout like the one John Daily caught and released below.
Tight lines,
Rob Reeder
PS. Days are filling up fast. Contact Tracey Stroup at (814) 632-6129 to book your guided day on the water.
