Drove up to the Brodhead two sundays ago. Air temps were in the 40's Water temp was 35/36. Heavily overcast and started sleeting/raining as soon as I stepped in the stream and rained off an on during the day. Nymphed a few spots but no luck.Not surprising since I usually do poor on the Brodhead in winter. Other streams close by are usually a few degrees warmer and fish better but they had too much ice to fish. Brodhead was open from below the Moose lodge to the bend below Stroudsburg.Above that had a lot of ice. Black stones were hatching. Took a look and McMichaels and Pocono were frozen pretty good. With the cold we had last week it may be a skating ring by now.
Woo Hoo somebody who can spell And has a camera. I'll have to come up with a better web alias than KenM, we'll go fishing first and I think all will be revealed. Last winter I did a job in New Hope right on the river, that was some serious cool looking ice.
The best ice I ever saw was when I lived in Colorado up the canyon from Boulder, the reservoir I lived next too froze early and as it drained the center dropped and the walls became thick chunks of aquamarine cracked ice, I'll never forget that color.
Poconos in Feb.
Posted - 02/22/2015 : 01:42:38
