Pa Trout Opener 2023

[troutspinner]

Who’s heading out? Where ya heading?

I doubt I will go with the rain coming but a friend did mention getting out, just he and I like the old days so that has some interest for me. Most likely French Creek, Skippack, Pickering, etc.

I did go out with a friend and his son last week for the youth opener. I was the camera man / lure tie-er? His son did well, catching 3 on a stretch sparsely stocked. More like they made the escape to those spots. He kept 2 for dinner, a rainbow and a brown and I got a Dunkin Coffee for my efforts.

 

[Don M]

If the rain is not to heavy, I'll head to the Montgomery County end of Pennypack. Then hit my spots, on Pennypack hard Monday morning, the low is to be 52°.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Might just go somewhere close and play around. If the weather is bad just might wait for the second stocking.

 

[Blackcat Outdoors]

I was supposed to do a 2 night trip up Pine Creek starting tonight, until my furnace took a s$#t last night. Looks like I'm going to be dealing with that after work instead. Hopefully I can get it up and running and still get out sometime Saturday

 

[truecrimson]

Looks like decent weather Sunday. Still planning to bushwhack some new nearby territory Sunday. Don't want to say where until I check it out.

Most of my usual haunts are well known and heavily trafficked so I am not burning anything if I say Memorial Lake or Swatara Creek. But this place has hidden from me since I moved here in '09 so maybe it has hidden from everyone else too

 

[Blackcat Outdoors]

Well, I got flame. I also got puff back and some black sooty smoke exiting the chimney now

Looking like I'm going to stay home tonight. Going to let the house warm up and kill it. Guess I'm gonna be cleaning a furnace at 0600 tomorrow now before I get any fishing in.

 

[MB3]

No early starts and camping for a spot in rain and 57mph gusts. We will give it a try but definitely not a boat weekend. Good luck to all!

 

[Don]

I wish I were there I’d join up with someone. Pennypack sounds historic and fun.

 

[Don]

TS is this the best time to use those i lines?

 

[Don M]

Well up at 4:00 as usual. Walked the dog at 5:00 in just a sweat shirt, all was calm and felt like 60° I was sweating.Figured I'd get the gear ready at 6:45. Stepped out of the man/Maya cave, light rain and the wind is a blowin. Maybe I'll check it out later.

 

[Blackcat Outdoors]

I was up and moving at 0500. Started getting gear around and the Mrs wasn't feeling well. She seems way better now, so I'm going to bang out the furnace cleaning here soon and if she's okay I'll head out around 9/9:30. I don't see much decent fishing until at least this afternoon.

After the storm last night, I think I'm going to leave the kyack at home. I'm going to go setup camp and stick to the bank I think.

 

[troutspinner]

TS is this the best time to use those i lines?

Yes!! Actually, that is how my buddies son caught all of his last week.

 

[Don]

It seems to me that this time of year, trout and perch hit them hard that’s when the in-line spinner shine so I think

 

[MB3]

Total suck fest. Tobyhanna was shut down. We tried 2 other spots and managed a few. Garbage opener but hey, it is open.

 

[Don]

Wow. I hope to be up that way for perch and Calico. Ext week. On Gouldsboro.

 

[troutspinner]

I talked to my buddy this morning and I told him the weather was going to clear, he was convinced another storm was coming so he decided not to go out. When the sun revealed itself, I headed over to my small local reservoir to see if I could turn any bass. I only got 2 bites so I guess I’m still rusty but in my defense, the one I missed was because I was on the phone with guess who? My buddy, who called to say I was right about the weather and he wanted to go trout fishing! Next time Johnny.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Weather sure is crazy today. Creeks are muddy. Hard day fishing had to put the time in for them which I wasn't doing. Messed around with a golden rainbow and couldn't get it to bite.

 

[truecrimson]

We had high wind, heavy rain, and some power blinks here today. But tomorrow is supposed to be better. Blown out or not I am planning on trying to hit a creek.

 

[Don]

That is right tC get it all cleaned up before I get home tomorrow night.

 

[Melvinp]

A couple of small bows water was pretty high and cloudy where I was over the mountain clear and low kinda funny how conditions can change by only a few miles