While the kids are doing their thing my friend and I head out to do some fishing. We often take his boat out on the Susquehanna river and do some bass fishing. I am always fly fishing and he spin casts. Last year we had an epic day bass of fishing. The water was rising. I don't think we ever caught so many smallies in the 15-18" range as we did that day. I would love to experience another day like that one! I will also head to Big Fishing Creek or Spring Creek to try and hit some of the mayfly hatches. This year my son said he would like to join me. So I hope to get him on his first trout on the fly rod. We may see the sulphurs and caddis on Spring or if the water comes down we may hit Fishing Creek. The green drakes are soon to arrive. They are also seeing some slate drakes, sulphurs, and tan caddis right now. This could lead to some exciting dry fly action.
If the water is still high on these creeks I may be doing some testing on some of my newer streamers that have done well in other locations. I am also anxious to try out some of my bass patterns.
Here is one of my newest ideas. I haven't decided on an official name for this fly yet but I am thinking of "Ice Minnow", "Polar Express", or if you have a suggestion let me know. I want to see if I get as good a response from some trout and would like to also test it on the bass to see if they like the looks of it.
I also have some sculpin patterns I want to try. I have fished these a little but haven't received any feedback on them yet. Others that have fished them have like them though.
I have a couple newer chain gang nymphs I would like to test. Below are the prince and royal prince. They have brought some to hand but need to continue testing these. Also is a bead head chain gang stonefly pattern. May have to see if I get any response from it as well.
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