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Pugs...that looks MUCH too civilized....
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Seems to me, the only thing missing was a fine cigar and a few drams of Redbreast.
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A few comments:
Have spent time in PA but not for a while. Never fished there, but read all the flyfishing books and know that much about it--plus a few private stories from friends who fished with the legends.
Haven't been to PA in many years, but when I first visited drank Iron City, Rolling Rock and Yuengling. Have yet to find a beer I don't find drinkable in the right circumstances, but am glad local brews are looking up.
Have only had Redbreast in Ireland. Good stuff, but have yet to find an Irish whiskey I don't like.
One interesting thing that's been happening recently in Montana is brown trout populations are starting to drop in their traditional "legendary" waters--which is something of a puzzler, since as somebody already noted, they're more tolerant of warmer waters than any other trout commonly found in North America, whether "native" to the region or not.
Personally I tend to fish less popular places even in Montana, partly because the famous places I fished while growing up here have become too crowded.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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Very cool. Sometimes I think all the world really needs is a good fly fishing trip and the fellowship of solid friends.
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Pugs...that looks MUCH too civilized.... Oh, your name came up a couple times. "Gee, we really should go to Montana fishing with Ingwe sometime" as I related the fun fishing we did a few years ago.
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Beautiful water, given the environment, and challenging fish. I do get a bit more satisfaction out of fooling educated quarry.
Nice post.
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Great post. Don’t think i will ever get to fish there so I enjoyed the trip. 👍
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Pugs...that looks MUCH too civilized.... Oh, your name came up a couple times. "Gee, we really should go to Montana fishing with Ingwe sometime" as I related the fun fishing we did a few years ago. Yeah and we were just getting started when..... And BTW some guy just got beat up by a grizzly a bit upstream from where we were....
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We'll be bring appropriate sidearms, slow companions and a ham..
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Great post! I was lucky to fish the limestone streams in the Cumberland valley many times. Always marvelled at the size of some of the brown trout in those waters.
The largest wild brown I ever saw in Pennsylvania was in the upper Letort one August afternoon after a heavy thunderstorn.
I seldom get down to that part of the state any more for fishing but your trip sounds like a great time.
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Sounds like a good time was had by all.
But I have to ask, where did the peanut trout come from?
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But I have to ask, where did the peanut trout come from? Yellow breeches -To get big ones there have to be small ones. the problem with splitting up to fish is you really don't get any hero shots so you take them where you can.
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True trophy fish deserve a good “grip and grin”. 😂
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Just caught a dozen of those.. Supper on Fri/ eve..
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😋 I might be able to make it by Friday. 😁
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[quote=Pappy348]Did you try worms?🪱
I think it was around 1968, I was about 12, back page of Field and Stream. Maybe some of you old plagiarizers remember the story. One guy was killing them, the other had nothing. He said, I’ve tried everything in my kit and haven’t had a single strike, what are you tying? The guy with all the fish replied, when all else fails, try a #9 Cahill. Never tied one of those, what is it? An earth worm.
That was probably Ed Zern talking about the "Garden Hackle".
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Great writeup and very nice pictures. I live, and have grown up, about 5 miles from there. No doubt you were fishing over extremely educated trout. The section of the Yellow Breeches you were fishing below Allenberry is in the "catch and release" section and it gets fished hard. That section is stocked a few times each year by the fish commission. I do not think the yellow breeches anglers club stocks that section but i could be wrong about that. There are definitely sections of that creek that hold some good wild brown trout populations. The Big Spring and Letort are definitely not what they once were and can be tough fishing.
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Great writeup and very nice pictures. I live, and have grown up, about 5 miles from there. No doubt you were fishing over extremely educated trout. The section of the Yellow Breeches you were fishing below Allenberry is in the "catch and release" section and it gets fished hard. That section is stocked a few times each year by the fish commission. I do not think the yellow breeches anglers club stocks that section but i could be wrong about that. There are definitely sections of that creek that hold some good wild brown trout populations. The Big Spring and Letort are definitely not what they once were and can be tough fishing. Yep, that's what my (please forgive me) snide remark about the peanut (planter) trout was referring to - it's an obvious stocker. The rainbow in the net is nicely colored, likely a holdover or naturally reproducing? That Big Spring section pictured looks like it could be English chalk stream. Really beautiful. Makes me realize that I need to experience more than CA tailwater or "thin blue line" plunge/pool fishing.
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Wasn't Zern's a "Garden Hackle Peacock"?
Thinking of Ed Zern, I guess I need to dig "How To Tell Fish From Fishermen" out and reread it.
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