Oct 20

Written by: KenP
10/20/2008 12:35 AM

I fished with a buddy Ed this chilly morning.  Air temp 32 degrees. Water temp 54 degrees at 7:20 am.  Ice forming in the guides almost immediately.  Was able to fool two browns and one smallmouth in the White Clay Creek, a Delaware river in the PA delayed harvest section below Good Hope Road Bridge.  They we sluggish but they ate size 16 flashback olive nymphs.  Saw at least a dozen fish near the big rock, but the slow water and gin clear conditions gave us away. Ed was working a natural hares ear under a float indicator but the floating leaf debris was detrimental to a drag free float as it interfered with the indicator a lot of the time.  We also scared a few fish from their rocky lies on our way out at about the time the sun made an appearance on the water.

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