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Ed, the car salesman: I'll get to the bottom of this. Davenport!

Davenport: Yes, Mr. Ed.

Ed, the car salesman: Mr. Griswold ordered a blue sports wagon, where is it?

Davenport: I don't know sir.

Ed, the car salesman: I know what must have happened. It didn't come in.

Clark Griswald: Ed, I'm not your average everyday fool. Now I want my blue sports wagon and if you can't get it I'm gonna take my business elsewhere! Where's my old car?

Ed, the car salesman: I'm just as upset as you are, believe me.

Davenport! Get Mr. Griswald's car back and bring it back here! Now I can get you the wagon, there's not problem there. The problem is that it might take six weeks. Now, I owe it to myself to tell you that if you're taking the whole tribe cross-country, the Wagon Queen Family Truckster... You think you hate it now, wait 'til you drive it.

Clark Griswald: I don't want to drive it. I just want my old car back. I'm not falling for this. Let's go, Russ

My first fly fishing book was Charlie Meck's "Meeting and Fishing the Hatches". I bought it when I started flyfishing in the early '80's.
It was my first guide for fishing and tying. And got me to start fishing the little juniata river, along with quite a few other PA streams

"Clean the tick bite out with soup, water and rubbing alcohol." Huh? I'm thinking you meant soap Dave. This is a good article. Thanks for the information and hope you don't have any more run-ins with ticks.

I've had my Rio Gold fly line less than 18 months and the first foot or so has developed cracks in the outer coating. Cleaning and dressing my lines is a religion with me. I use Cortland xl dressing and cleaner at the end of every day I fish.
As far as I'm concerned Rio is overpriced and no better than a Cortland line.
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Well, another season has come and gone in the Catskills. What a perfect way to end it. Beautiful surroundings, food, friends and fishing. Reports leading up to our trip were very promising but it appears that we were a few days late in hitting the hot fishing.

Thursday started off by picking up Brandon's disabled boat and taking it for a short float with Josh and Nick. Quite possibly the best question of the trip came from NickR as we were leaving the car. "I don't need my rain jacket, do I?" 2 minutes after launching the boat we had a pouring rain for 30 minutes. I think it's a safe bet that he never asks that question again. 🙂

Some of the crew rolled in Thursday evening and we met up at the motel. I'd like to say that we formulated a plan on attack for the following day but we drank beer and did a little BS-ing.

Friday involved a trip on the lower EB. Me, Josh and new / future forum member Tom from Jersey were in one boat while DaveS and NickR put his boat to good use. The water was slightly stained and the fishing was tough but not as tough as what we experienced at the Fishes Eddy access. As we neared the slow bend in the river, we heard guys shooting semi-automatics on the hill. We were trying to guess if they were AK-47, Mini-14 or AR-15's. Just about that time, bullets began ricocheting over our heads and striking the far bank. The idiots were shooting down hill and directly at the river. We dropped to the floor of the boat and waited for a break in the shooting. I rowed like hell to get us out of there. As we looked back, we could see Dave and Nick coming into the pool. Nick was nymphing the seam as they floated. Still shaking, we met up on the near bank behind a rock bluff. Everyone seemed to be well aware of how dangerous that was except Nick. He asked if we saw the fish rising between the boats. We said "those were bullets hitting the water!". I don't even remember how the fishing was that day but was happy to...

Join us WW Fly guys for the 2nd annual one-day Jam/float on Saturday August 4th. We will be fishing the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Bring your yak, toon, tube, canoe, or whatever, to float the River. Also, for the landlubbers, there will be plenty of water to wade as well. There should be good number of nice smallies to be caught (and released), along with rockbass, an occasional walleye, and even a musky is possible for you toothy predator guys.


Recommended rod for SMB would be a 9’ 6wt or 7 wt, but a little lighter or heavier rod will do the job. For flies, bring plenty of buggers, clousers, and streamers, as well as poppers and sliders for on top.

Meet up at the Park & Ride lot in the Pittston area at 10am. We’ll likely fish ‘til dark. The meet-up lot is conveniently located at the junction of both Rt 81 (Pittson exit #175) and the PA Turnpike – NE Extension (Wyoming Valley exit #115) for easy access for members in all corners of PA. A Google Map is included below.

Come one, come all. It should be a blast. To learn more abou that trip check out the forum thread here.

photo by PSUFishMenace

Sadly, there are countless tales of significant property loss as result of flooded waterways from the Susquehanna in the Wyoming Valley to the Swatara in Lancaster County.

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I know the water was high and many streams spilled over their banks, but I think the Swattie is in Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin counties 🙂 Our worst offender, I think, was Chiques Creek, in Manheim.

Across the state, I know a number of state parks are still closed, and the bridge over the Loyalsock in Worlds End State Park, back to the cabin and group camping loop, washed out for the third time in two years (January 2010, Irene, and Lee). I drove up through the DWGNRA on 209 on Monday evening, en route to Boston, and pretty much every parking lot and trail were closed still (kind of surprising since the water had receded). They were all pretty much closed today on the way home.

And without trivializing the loss of property and in some case lives, it was nice to see white water in riffles in all the streams up through the Gap. I packed everything to wet a line on the way up or back and unfortunately, forgot my waders.

For the physics of why trout (or anything) hunker low in the water column, some light reading on the "The Law of the Wall" might help. Studied this stuff in sedimentology class, as it pertains to the movement of sediment in streams, and then again in fluid mechanics class, with an eye towards crystal movement in magmas, but its applicable to trout too.