I had a great introduction to Penns Creek. I jumped into a muddy and high stream just about 2 mile below Coburn. To my surprise my first sizable fish was a 14in rainbow out of Stans pool. I am told that they stock the "open water" upstream with rainbows and sometimes they hold over in the Trophy Water. Following that I landed my first wild browns. In the weekend I totaled 10 fish, 3 bows and 7 browns. I thought they were all difficult to catch, although, many were skunked during the same time periods.

The "Dry Fly" culture is a strange one dozens of people hanging out around their cars and trucks, waiting for the hatch. Never really trying to fish without a hatch. Although I was only averaging 1-2 fish an hour, I would much rather nymph than wait.

Saturday night I did get to experience the March Brown hatch. I have to admit it was a lot of quick and fun action but I usually can't plan my fishing around the hour of the hatch. It did give me my largest fish of the weeknd, a 16in brown on a March Brown dun. Pretty cool 2 days.

And I almost forgot, Jonas at the Feathered Hook was a great help. I didn't carry my camera a lot because of the rain and general uncertainty of wading the stream, but here are some pictures...

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