Blue Mountain Troutin' 1-12-13

[Lard Almighty]

My brother invited me out to PA to fish for trout with a couple of his buddies. We fished three small streams out in the Blue Mountains, between the four of us we caught 7 trout, with a few swings and misses thrown in. Couple of wild brownies in the 13-14 inch class, but nothing big. Fish were hitting a mix of spinners, rapalas, trout magnets, and jigs. We fished some really nice looking water, I was surprised we didn't catch more. All the streams we fished were low and crystal clear.

[Lard Almighty]

A few more pics...

[FASTEDDIE29]

Great pics and nice fish!!!

[basspilot]

Great looking fish nice colors

[AndyS]

Great pics !!!!

[buzzbaiter]

Spinners will outfish anything else but only if stream temps are above 45F and preferably above 50F. Right now with runoff from snow/ice, stream temps are struggling to reach 40F. In cold water, fly fishing with large - #8 or larger - beadhead nymphs or weighted nymphs will do much better. Or you can also use the nymphs with the spin gear by adding a little bb shot to be able to cast it far enough. I call it sply fishing:p

[lunkertaker]

Nice!. Wish I was there.

[tjc76]

Nice work! Some beautiful fish.

[lunkertaker]

Nice...If those fish were caught during the current FREEZE, absolutely awesome.
If before, well...still awesome!

[Cuz]

You da man! Ready to try ice fishing with me? I have everything you need. You said you wanted to go. I'm waiting on you. I need a big guy like you to walk in front of me to test the ice. LOL Also, I need a young big guy to run my auger all day! You'll have an interesting day. An an old pro will show you the ropes.

[Inishmore3]

Nice pictures. I've been to this area before at the race track. How far is the stream from Penn National Race Track?