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General Region	Lake Erie tributaries
Specific Location	Twenty Mile Creek and Elk Creek
Time of Day	7:00 - 5:00
Fish Caught	Fresh Chrome and some colored up fish
Conditions & Hatches	Lower than desired and stained on Wednesday. Big drop in temperature on Friday gave the fish lockjaw.

Details and Discussion

Wbranch	November 8th, 2014, 10:35 am
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733	Made another trip up to the Lake Erie tributaries. Far fewer fish overall (chrome and older fish) than in many prior trips. We really had to work for the fish we caught but from talking to other guys I feel we were high rods on the creeks for the three days we fished. There were three of us and I'd venture to say we hooked at least 30 steelhead.
	Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
Oldredbarn	November 8th, 2014, 5:38 pm
Novi, MI Posts: 2608	Nice Matt! Spence
	"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Wiflyfisher	November 8th, 2014, 6:08 pm
Wisconsin Posts: 663	It looks like your work (or is it called play) really paid off. Very nice!
	John S. https://WiFlyFisher.com
Wbranch	November 8th, 2014, 7:05 pm
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733	It really was work! Getting up at 5:00 a.m. so we could get a shower (too exhausted at night), have breakfast and get to the river at first light, walk up to two miles, then high stick nymphs and swing little emerald shiner patterns all day. But as tiring as it is I do love it as much as dry fly fishing to big rising trout. The PA Erie fish are smaller than the NYS Cattaraugus Creek fish or the Lake Ontario steelhead. However if one is willing to walk a mile or more beyond the parking access you can find really isolated sections of the river with high cliffs, long emerald green pools, and swift water riffles with opportunities for the occasional 9# - 10# steelhead. I'd guess my colored up buck is about 7#.
	Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
Entoman	November 8th, 2014, 11:38 pm
Northern CA & ID Posts: 2604	Tremendous, Matt. Swinging streamers, huh? Can you write about that a bit?
	"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman
Wbranch	November 9th, 2014, 10:58 am
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733	Okay Kurt, I'll do that soon. I have some projects here at home that might consume much of today.
	Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
PaulRoberts	November 13th, 2014, 6:42 pm
Colorado Posts: 1776	Wonderful Matt. I do miss it so. I too fished streamers of all sizes, as well as wets, nymphs and eggs. Can't wait to hear about the emerald shiners.

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