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Kyle M.
USA
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 Posted - 03/24/2013 : 20:45:03
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| I can only go to one but I am torn on which one. I'm guessing the opening day on the Brodhead trip is more fishing and less crowds, or is it just shoulder to shoulder fishing? |
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Blue Heron
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2013 : 07:32:19
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| Both events are well attended but there's still areas to get away when you're done socializing. Learn to fish day is in a prettier place and has plenty of good water besides the pool everyone insists on running to and more chances to hang with the club guys. |
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Flyfisher
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2013 : 12:25:00
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The "pool that everyone insists on running to" is the Piano Pool (don't know how it got its name) and is very popular.  Sometimes it is productive & sometimes not. 
Like son, like father?  When my son was a young boy scout I took him several times to the Ressica Falls Boy Scout Camp. (He has since earned the Eagle Scout award, graduated from college, married, had a family & is the Cubmaster of his son's troop). Fast forward to 2008: having belatedly learned fly fishing I have gone to Ressica Falls a number of times & each time I pass the boy scout statue @ entrance, I remember those days w/my son.  Ah, memories.  |
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Mike
USA
265 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2013 : 17:58:33
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Flyfisher - I spent a lot of summer's up there as a Boy Scout leader. Everytime I go back, it still brings those memories forward when I pull into the place.
Life is good! I started out with nothing and I still have half of it left! |
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BirkyDucks
USA
246 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2013 : 12:08:30
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The broadhead is a far cry from what it once was .
The local goverment has seen fit to parkarize the aluvial flood plain which was a more of a wild type enviroment as wich it is now a more parklike setting with trails and easy acess as well as frisbee golf . Also it is open water and regular regs wich means lots of bait bombers and typical opening day elbow to elbow fishing . As you can tell by now I am not as big broadhead fan and I will go if someone else drives me I ll go along cause it beats not fishing at all . Also I think alot of the nymphs got smothered in the floods we have had and the hatches were real lousy last year 3 of us went up and fished in may at prime time on a perfect overcast day that was damp and I saw one mayfly all day we caught a few on nymphs but it was sloooooooow .
The big bushkill has better hatches and is fly only water with a delayed harvest . Agreat dryfly stream with lots of bugs to hone your skills on . IT ALSO NYMPHS QUITE WELL WITH ALL THAT POCKETWATER . Also the big bushkill is still very remote and wild with bears and beaver sightings are the norm the only otter I ever saw was at the bushkill . To get away from all the piano pool droans you should drive up the Firestone road there is a parking lot on the left about a mile up and a trail that leads down to the upper falls this is my favorite water and it is in a real wild setting . |
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Mike
USA
265 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2013 : 14:29:38
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I don't believe you're allowed to take a car onto the campground proper. All fly fishers are supposed to park in the fisherman's lot.
When I was an active scouter - I actually had permission to drive right down to the Churh Pool and/or Firestone hole. Now that was a hoot! But you def needed a 4-wheeler.
Life is good! I started out with nothing and I still have half of it left! |
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Kyle M.
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2013 : 17:00:12
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| Resica it is then, thanks for the help. |
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Kyle M.
USA
3 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2013 : 06:33:13
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| Are there any flies I should definitely bring? I'm guessing some quill gordons and midges? |
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Flyfisher
USA
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Posted - 03/27/2013 : 06:51:57
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Mike, thanks for your time as a Scout Leader. As you know, organizations, including the Scouts, depend on volunteers to support their activities and your kind contributions surely were appreciated. 
As for me, I was a committee chairman for my son's troop & went on a number of camping trips, etc.  I also was a soccer coach for 10 years. 
Now my passion is fly fishing. |
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Mike
USA
265 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2013 : 08:48:52
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ah! Lot's of found memories. I was a leader/committee person for ~15 years. We did everything from kayaking in the FL Keys, hiking in the NY Adirondack's, and taking a 'fleet' of houseboats through the Canadian Richelieu lake & canal system. Sometimes - like the Keys trip, I wasn't sure if I was scouting or vacationing. We spent time on a schooner that the captain said cost $1200 per day/per person in season and we only paid about $200 per person for the week. Seemed a lot of captains donated their off-season time - to providing a great time for the scouts that came to Seabase in the Keys.
Life is good! I started out with nothing and I still have half of it left! |
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Blue Heron
USA
298 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2013 : 07:24:49
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| Blue quills are common at resica, small caddis pupae in dark green, small buggers because they are stocked. 14 and 16 dark nymphs to match the small stones. |
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Flyfisher
USA
169 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2013 : 10:30:14
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WOW, Mike, you sure had some GREAT experiences in Scouting. (And you haven't stopped volunteering, as evidenced in your participation in MLFT activities.).
By the way, my son attended the Scouting Great Adventure week in the Keys in FL (Seabase?) & loved it, while learning to assist w/operating a large sailboat. He loved it!! |
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BirkyDucks
USA
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Posted - 03/29/2013 : 15:33:39
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| Big stonefly nymphs and a wading staff a good strong one prefarably wood . The higher the water the bigger youre nymphs and heavier . I remember one opening day back in the 80's the Freib and I threw in with my alcy budys we stayed up in Shohola they stood up all night drinking and puking while we the true fisherman slept we got up waded thru all the puke and empty beer cans and headed down to resica . When we got there it looked like a dam bursted it was realy high and you could here the rocks rolling down the creek it was a muddy torent . We faound a back eddy above the rangers house and tied on lots of lead and biiiiiig stonefly nymphs size 2 and 4's we hamered them all the trout in that section were coralled in that back eddy it was like fishing in a barell . As far as drys go if the water is not too high there is nothing like an Adams 12,16 ,18 Ilike to tie them with white calftail for a wingpost and parachute style. Lokk me up and give you some flys up there . |
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Brodhead or Resica?
