There are some very good browns in PC Ed, especially in the marginal waters down stream from Rochester. It just takes time to get them. There are a couple of differ drakes in there too. One is a very soft gold in color & PC is the only stream I have seen this fly in. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Roden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [VFB] Fishing Paint Creek
> Hit Paint Creek tonight downstream of Dutton and Livernois - Dan was > supposed to be there, but never showed! I'll get to fish with him > someday - one other guy fishing - he had a brown hit a dry, and chubs on > his weighted nymphs, but nothing else. Nothing was rising, so I tied on > a 16 hare's ear to start. Fished upstream for a while, with nothing > hitting. Came to a deep pool, and saw 2 trout rising sporadically. > Tied on a 16 adams for fun, and actually got a hit. They both bedded > down after that, but it was exciting for me because I've never had a > fish rise to a dry for me on PC before! Proves to me that it can be > done, and I'll just have to head out there more often! > > I also saw sulfurs rising, and what I would swear was a gray drake, but > not sure on that count. It was also only one, so it made me doubt. > > There are several creek projects we could do. There is a good sized > debris jam downstream of the PC bridge there (though it speeds up the > river, and a nice pool below it), there is a full shopping cart just > upstream of the bridge there, and there is another MAJOR debris jam > further upstream towards the next bridge, and that one is re-routing the > stream itself. > > Ed Roden > Quest for Quality Computers, Inc. > "Any BYTE-sized Job" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.questquality.com > > The fact is, we modern Americans seldom get it right. We live entirely > too well in some ways and not nearly well enough in others. We either > want more than we need or settle for less than we deserve, and we never > seem to understand what we're doing wrong at the time. - John Gierach >
