On Sunday February 16 I had enough of cabin fever and met up with my friend Anthony who owns Almost Heaven Fly shop for a few hours on the water. Water temperatures weren't in our favor and never made it out of the high 30s. But we didn't let that stop us or the two and a half feet of snow we had to wade through to get to the stream. It ended up being about as good as you could ask for winter fishing to be, and I feel sure if we would have stayed for another hour or so we both would have made it to double digits. The stream we fished has loads of big stoneflys, making the anchor nymph choice easy. Droppers we caught fish on were bwo nymphs and midge larva. Highlights of the day were Anthony's 13/14" wild rainbow which was one of the prettiest fish I've ever seen personally. And I caught a nice 16/17" wild brown that put up an excellent fight for being the dead of winter. All in all it was great to get out and even better to get into some fish. Posts coming up will be on this coming weekends trip to the Lancaster show with Ty from over at keystoneflyfishing.blogspot.com we'll be stopping on the way home at what some call the country's hardest stream. And I'm having some streamers tied using my feathers by my good friend and fellow hackle rancher from out in Nevada, Kevin. Stay warm friends BWOS and sulphurs are right around the corner!

Old man winter gave us a good kick in the nuts this week here in South Central PA, with 10 inches of snow on Monday and a nice layer of ice right on top of that Wednesday morning. I was able to do some fishing Sunday afternoon at yellow creeks fly fish only stretch. I managed a few fish in on Bwo nymphs and stone nymphs, and rolled a big rainbow with a sculpin but the hook was spit a few seconds into the battle. It was a nice sight to see a swarm of midges flying in the warmest part if the afternoon but no risers. Spring will come eventually I guess sure wish it would get its rearend in gear. Stay warm out there, here's some 6-7 month old birds that will be this springs skins.

The middle of winter is here and spring is growing closer and closer, and im starting to dream of casting Sulpher drys to sipping wild brown trout on The Little Juniata River. I wanted to make this post on how great barred dun feathers help match the natural duns. The barring on the light blue feathers seem to make the fly dance across the water when light shines on it. Stay warm folks. AAAGg/mHgVU-30N_Q/s400/photo2.jpg" />