Birthday Brown

 As usual I had to go fishing on my birthday. I went over to Swamp Creek behind the Bechtelsville post office first but I didn’t see anything. Then I drove up to Huff’s church and fished from the bridge on the west branch of the Perkiomen. Still nothing. On my way back down I noticed a nice looking section of the stream just below a water fall. I cast upstream towards the falls and finally caught a brown trout. At that point it was time to go home and warm up a bit.

I had a thought!!!

• So I noticed that when I’m in my local Walmart that they sell these Power Bait worms. In particular the pink ones seem to sell out a lot. I figured if they sell out they must work. I bought a pack of them and designed a rig that would let me float them down the stream while keeping them off of the bottom. I tied a snelled number 6 bait holder hook on then put a small split shot about eight inches up the line. Then I put a small trout float about ten inches above  that. I went over to Swamp Creek in Bechtelsville to test it out. My first cast I caught a small brown trout about six inches long. I went to the bottom of the second dam next to the post office and caught a ten inch brown. So these things work in Swamp Creek. Then I thought I should test this setup on the west branch of the Perkiomen. I drove up to the bridge at Huff’s church and floated this setup under the bridge but didn’t get any bites. I did see a huge rainbow but it just looked at the worm then turned around and went back under the bridge. Then I drove down to the dam on Mensch Mill Camp road. I cast it to the bottom of the dam and caught another wild brown about eight inches long. The rig was a success.. I’ll have to try it on the Monocacy up by work and see what happens.
  
  
  

I didn’t skip September.

 Just because I didn’t post anything in September it doesn’t mean that I wasn’t fishing. I was on vacation last week and it rained four out of seven days. However me being me, I couldn’t let a few raindrops keep me from going. On Saturday September 23rd I had to take Debbie to a bridal shower for my cousin’s daughter in Tamaqua. Once I dropped her off I continued my journey up to my cousin Jeff’s house. We went down to the middle lake and on my first cast I hooked into a solid twenty four inch pickerel. I got it to the shore and then it came off and rolled its way back into the water. Two more casts and I hooked into an even larger pickerel but while I was fighting it, it bit 
through my braided line and took off with my expensive lure. I went a few other times during the week in Swamp Creek behind the Bechtelsville post office and caught some small brown trout . I also hit a few areas of the west branch of the Perkiomen and caught some small browns. Today on the other hand, I went to a few different places and didn’t catch much but I ended up next to the Bechtelsville post office and caught a fourteen inch brook trout. Now this was definitely a first in many ways. For one thing I have never caught a brook trout in Swamp Creek. I have never caught a wild brook trout that big and I have never caught a wild trout that far down the stream.

Swamp Creek smallies

 So I had a little bit of free time this afternoon so I figured I go over to Swamp Creek and do some smallmouth fishing. I used the crankbait in the picture the whole time I was there. This was the biggest one I caught. It was about a pound. In true smallmouth style it put up quite a fight.

Hanging out with my cousins!!!

 So yesterday we went up to the Pocono’s to spend the day with my cousin Jeff and his wife Barbara. They live in a development with 3 small lakes and a small non stocked trout stream. So I spent the day going between the lakes and the stream. The lakes are mostly full of bass and pickerel although they do stock the main lake with trout in the spring. So I saw a few trout in the stream and ended up catching a small brown trout and some small pickerel there. Jeff took pictures of the pickerel and bass that I caught in the lakes. The last bass was just over four pounds. It was great hanging out with Jeff and Barb.

Bally rocks brown

I’ve been cleaning the house all week on vacation getting ready for a family and friends gathering. I decided to take off a couple of hours and go to the west branch of the Perkiomen creek near Bally rocks and do some fishing. I caught a few small browns and then caught this one. 

Nice Ironstone brown

 I dropped my wife Debbie off at a birthday party in Boyertown and decided to go across the street to Ironstone creek. I found a nice sized hole and cast upstream. I caught a little brown trout and threw it back. On my next cast , I caught another small brown followed up by a creek chub. I still had a few minutes before I had to pick up Debbie so I cast further up stream and caught this twelve inch brown. I had a hunch the Ironstone would have wild browns in it and I was happy that the hunch panned out.