Quittapahilla Creek and Codorus Creek

[rckrego]

Anyone ever fish either of these? they both sound like nice options, but very different. Read and article calling the quitti an undiscovered limestoner. The codorus is a tailwater with a trophy section. Anyone with actual fishing knowledge of these two creeks? Love to try em out some time.

[Nymphmeister]

No actual experience on either, but what I read about the Quitti in the Fly Fisher's Guide to PA made me wanna fish it- supposed to be plenty of 20"+ fish in it. Guess it used to be really polluted but they cleaned it up.

[rckrego]

yeah sounds like a great stream. not many "undiscovered" limestoners left. The codorus is a tailwater and supposed to have good trout fishing through the summer.

[Fascist Killer]

Hey Master... wanna check out the Quitti soon? Only 10 minutes past the Tully.

[identical.meat]

Haven't been to the Quittie yet... Codorus is a real nice stream and is productive year-round. Good ol' beadheads work well.

[AaronJasper]

Hey Meat... I like the pictures on your site. I will have Justin aka Juive add it to the links page. I especially like the pictures of the streams.

[Fascist Killer]

Nice site Meat... Can you tell us more about the Codorous? I wanna go!

[identical.meat]

Sweet - I'm glad you guys like it. It's a work in progress... I wasn't sure how the Team GFR thing would be recieved by people who weren't in on it - I thought it might come across as a little corny. It's all in good fun, though. Thanks for the compliments - they really mean a lot coming from non-Team members. I can't imagine that I'm getting a lot of traffic at this point so I'd greatly appreciate the link. I'll do the same, of course.

As for the Codorus, I've actually only fished it once. My cohort Mega lived in the area for a year or two and fished it frequently - I'll point him to this thread and maybe he can elaborate further. It's somewhat like the Little Lehigh in character, maybe a little smaller, and there's plenty of good, nymphable runs. I believe there's a decent sulphur hatch also, but the stream is still recovering from prior filthyness and doesn't support too wide a range of insect life. Nevertheless, there's lots of wild trout.

We'll have to have a Team GFR - TPO outing somewhere sometime...

[AaronJasper]

During the Winter when the guiding on the weekends slows down I am sure a few of us could come out there. Maybe we can do Spring Creek or the Little J? In addition to the guiding I teach second grade so I have to work all week > Maybe around Thanksgiving or Christmas?

[Megastar]

Nice web site/forum. Thanks for the invite...

Codorus Creek holds plenty of wild browns (some rather large), particularly in the segment from Lake Marburg dam downstream to the sawmill.
This section ranges between 30 - 40 feet wide, with well defined riffles, runs, and pools (a typical C-type stream, if that means anything to anyone). Even during the low water conditions of summer '05, there was always plenty of water.
The stream flows along a road at points, through farmland at others. Access is easy, you can cross the stream at the sawmill, and pull-offs are available just beyond the bridge (downstream).
Lots of scuds and cressbugs, and plenty of cold water from the dam release.
Real good nymph water, if you're into that kind of thing.

Another productive section can be found further downstream, in the vicinity of Porter's Sideling. The stream is a bit larger here, and flows through a more wooded setting, but the channel is fairly impaired from previous flood damage. Large woody debris makes up alot of the trout habitat, and terrestrials are usually productive through this reach.

I would highly recommend the Laughmann Sawmill/upstream segment to the first-time visitor.

A favorite destination of Maryland angler friends of mine who cross the border to fish our 'cricks'.