PA trout

[thmyorke1]

Crossed the Big D and fished a stream and one of it's tribs. The stream looked great but majority fallfish, two smbs, and redbreast sunfish in the deep-gorge pools. Think i spooked a trout or two in pocket water while crossing the stream, but eventually hooked into a a PB brookie, think it was a stocked fish. Also on my DIY inline spinner. That was it however for trout.

I ventured into one of the tributaries and spotted more trout, lost some dinks, landed few. Headed upstream more, more terrain and some nice waterfalls. At the bigger falls; sunk a jig straight down into the white bubbles and thought I snagged until I felt one big headshake- then the fight was nuts and landed this 16~ inch wild brown.

Also there was some pvc pipe spewing out water that smelled similarly to the raritan's water treatment plant outflow. What do? Well of course take a cast. First cast, another stocked brookie, which had a messed up mouth. Second cast, yellow perch? yea! Must be that smelly-pipe magic.

Most PA streams I saw were just as low as the ones in NJ.