Pocono Fly Fishing: McMichael's Creek Delayed Harvest

7 Mar - Fished BHPT (bead head pheasant tail) and BHHE (bead head hares ear) in slower runs. Creek level is down but still easily fishable. Only landed 1 trout and missed a couple of others. Trout hit the fly when I lifted the rod to recast (emerging). Outside air temp was nice. 50-60 degrees. I fished from 3-530 pm.

8 Mar - Fished further downstream from previous day. I found a nice fast run that held multiple trout. Landed 4-5, mostly rainbows. Missed 1/2 dozen as well. Fished BHPT and BHHE again. Most were caught on BHPT, size 16-18. Fished from 3-5 pm. Air temp was warmer with 60 + temps. Water measured 58 degrees but that was the top of the water where the sun was beating. I'm sure the bottom of the creek was still in the 40's. I used my laser temp meter.

10 Mar - Fished the same ten foot section for 3 hours, 3-6 pm. Landed over 12 trout. Most trout were pretty small with majority bows. Missed another 20 +. I started fishing a BHPT. Switched to an orange micro egg with no luck but I didn't add weight to it. The section I was fishing was around 3 feet deep with a swift current. I switched to a sucker spawn with a small split shot and my day got fun! After about 1 1/2 hours of educating the fish, I switched to a griffiths gnat because I kept seeing fish work the bank eating midges. Repeatedly taking trout on a dry fly in early March is a real treat! Early black stoneflies have been around in abundance during the afternoon the past week as well. Trout were rising to them occasionally but not with any consistency.