Once again, I had chosen to fly fish in Pennsylvania. I selected a stream in Forest County. Here I would have the opportunity to hook either a smallmouth bass and or some trout.

It’s never about the actual catching that I crave, but the planning and seeing the plan through. If I was to even hook a fish it would be icing on the cake for me.

I got up at 0400 and made plenty of coffee, had breakfast and headed out.

The weather called for rain and a lot of it at some point on Saturday.  I know I needed to stay on high alert because the area I was going to was prone to flash floods and at times the road I needed to drive onto washes out from time to time!

I started low down on the creek and with a single hander rod I picked up a small perch! I thought ok this is the first for me on a fly rod.

I walked about a mile down alternating the single-handed rod and then the switch rod.

The single-handed fly rod had a size #6 streamer and the switch rod had a size #10 streamer on.

The size #6 streamer was white mylar / deer hair with a mallard flank collar sparsely tied and the size #10 was grey over white and again sparsely tied.

With random 15 mph wind gusts from time to time, you knew the storm was getting closer.

It was an amazing feeling to pull trout and smallies out of the same area.

I went to an upper middle section of the creek to see what I could see. I walked down stream for about a mile before I found some good holding water.

Here I would be rewarded with one more Rainbow on the swing. Well kinda on the swing the trout took the fly mid strip.

In the upper middle stretch here, I used a #12 olive over white minnow pattern but really it looked like a tiny saltwater deceiver pattern!

I kept looking at the sky’s and the clouds began to get much darker. Then I could here thunder in the distance, and I kept listening to it to see if I could estimate how long I had.

It was moving fast and I needed to boogie out of there and get back to my car. The rain was heavy and the dense fog made it worse!

Sorry I am not as detailed in this entry. I have been up since 0400 and I am whooped. Be well my friends!