September 8, 2021 – The Storm Damage Tour Continues – Northampton County Limestoner

A couple of average browns like this girl.

Only a few down trees along this creek, and many of the holes look like themselves, so I am hopeful about this one.  That is good because this is one I frequent up to 20 times a year, I bet, maybe a little less.  It holds up in winter and summer (most of both, at least) and it is a pretty easy drive—let’s call it my Valley NW, of which I have two.  I hope to see Valley NW 2 on Friday, maybe, as long as the rain on Thursday is not too bad and no one puts a meeting request on my calendar.  Whether the fish were shaken up by the Ida floods, or the barometric pressure of another approaching story had them feeling off, the fishing was tough this morning. 

A couple big trees down (and a zombie rainbow) but not in depressing shape here!

I landed two wild browns, dropped one other, and landed a zombie rainbow.  She looked pretty beat up.  I actually saw a random dead brown floating downstream too. I netted the fish and saw no visible foul play, so it could have gotten that way by natural causes or supernatural natural causes. I felt like the hits were off---again that sense that they were feeling a little pressure sick maybe—and the ones I did hook and/or land were average.  With no YOY harassment either and no bugs or risers, it was mostly a walk in the woods and water for me.  This is not an isolated trip when I feel like I am almost force-feeding them a well presented bug.  They were stuck on the bottom but would open their mouths for a bug that hit them on the nose—it happens pretty often on transitional days.  That said, I am hoping it was just the day and the lack of bug life that had this creek off this morning not the ravages of this wild late summer storm season.