Category: Back East Blog

Fly Fishing the legendary waters of the East Coast

Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Report and Stream Conditions 4/28/16

March Browns are picking up as Hendricksons and Grannoms are winding down. Olive hatches have been decent on overcast days and terrestrials are starting to show up on some of our southern spring creeks. Water flows have been great for dry fly action. This is shaping up to be a great year. Fish can be …

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Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Stream Conditions and Hatches Update 2/26/17

Recently the Early Black Stonefly (EBS) hatch was brought up on PaFlyFish.com and as luck would have it, I was out this past week in central PA to hunt this hatch. And it is a hunt. Now what these stoneflies are actually called unofficially and officially seems to vary or at least I am easily confused by …

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Fall Fishing Report: South Central Pa Spring Creeks

Midges, craneflies, scuds, and sculpins. Fall is fading and that means time to watch out for redds. In the mean-time here’s a little piece about spring creeks: For many fly-anglers fishing spring creeks, what we affectionately call “limestoners” here in PA, the task of covering these waters effectively represents a different world on the water …

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