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28-inch Brown released 4-23-2013
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Huge Browns Swimming Past Camera 4-18-2013 stocking
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April 26, 2013 Tackle Shop Newsletter
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Greetings! This our second spring stocking newsletter. We have many, many more videos - we'll keep them coming in future newsletters. We've stocked 5 times this spring already, including the 23rd, which had as many trout as all the rest of the stockings combined! In the video above, it was surprising to see one trout come straight at the camera. And in the first video - what a brownie! There are a lot of great trout in the big creek! We've greatly appreciated all the individual Brown Trout Club donors as well as those that are corporate donors. Those donations are what bought the trout for Pine. We look forward to the continued stocking and enhancing of our brown trout fishery. If you would like to join Slate Run Tackle Shop's Brown trout Club, help increase the numbers of big browns in Pine, and get a Club Membership Pin, Slate Run Tackle is the home of the Brown Trout Club and the money given is used entirely to stock great browns near Slate Run in Pine Creek. The Club was begun by Tom Finkbiner, and is exclusive to the Slate Run Tackle Shop - it definitely enhances the fishery from the Naval Run Pool all the way through the Delayed Harvest Stretch and to the water near the Brown Township Fire Hall. Thank you for your help, for your membership, and for caring about Pine Creek! |
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What's working...
Hendricksons are definitely working on Pine which includes the red quill, and blue quills and Quill Gordons are also present and a major factor on Slate and Cedar. Also we have some adult caddis, black and brown stones, and a few BWOs. With the water now dropping below 2.5 feet on the gauge, surface activity is again heating up to match the numbers of flies present. And it looks like a great weather forecast for the next week! Anglers have had hookups with beadheads below the surface when fish weren't coming up.
An interesting phenonemon has been occurring, what is happening on one pool may be very different from another pool. A few nights ago I was on the old campground pool and nothing was happening except for a good brisk breeze. I went up to Pine at the village of Cedar Run - above the concrete bridge they were working the surface. It still seems the best spots for dries are in the slower water and toward the lower end of pools where trout can be conscious of surface activity. Keep those March Browns ready, we have been seeing them but not in numbers yet.
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Miranda Leigh's "Pine Creek" taken 4-24-2013
Just a few more casts...
Scenes of Pine and pictures like the one above that Miranda captured, conjure up many thoughts. Pine is a living body of water, an excellent trout stream, home to so much life that depends on it, and a soother for those who seek solace. Pine is the stuff of legend and is storied in books, magazines, and is the catalyst for countless campfire conversation.
Miranda's picture reminds me of two individuals in particular. Al Troth is the first. He was an educator, an avid fly tier and innovator, discoverer, and adventurer. Back in the day when fishing season started at a particular hour on a particular day across the state, Al would get to Slate Run on time to go to the Manor Hotel for lunch - just so he was starting up the run by 12:30. It was a leisure lunch with no rush. "The sun won't be on the longer pools until about 12:30 and the blue quills will be on the water after that." He was right, year after year. He knew Slate, its temperament in differing conditions, and he knew the run as well as he knew his family. The same was true of his knowledge of Pine. One spring our Susquehanna TU chapter had its banquet in the grass behind the Manor Hotel, Pine was bank full - I'll bet five feet on the gauge. Great hot dogs and burgers but the attraction was Al walking to the flooding creek with his fly rod and leather fly pack. Totally unbelievable, Al cast his weighted Troth nymphs upstream, along the bank, and watched the line as if he were watching a dry fly. He lifted the rod several times with no response, recast the nymphs, lifted, and he was into a real nice brown trout. He did this time after time. I still don't know what Al enjoyed most, the creek, the trout, or the insect life - Al was as special as his favorite waters.
The second person I'll mention in this "few more casts" is Curt Gowdy. Curt would come into Williamsport every year to announce the Little League World Series. He loved to fish, so we got together. The first time was a Saturday morning. He got into my car at 6 AM and we headed to a great limestoner near Jersey Shore. It was cold, clear, and sunny. We fished all morning over many, many great trout... nothing. On the way back I apologized over and over again... We'll go somewhere else next time... Next time I hope it is cloudy, I hope it is warmer, We'll get into them... Curt looked at me and said, "Years ago I apologized Bing Crosby the same way you are apologizing to me. We had fished my private creek on my ranch in Wyoming for a whole week, over a lot of trout, and caught nothing. Let me tell you what Bing Crosby said in response... He said, 'Curt, I have been very successful in my life and paid very well. I can buy anything that I want to buy in this world except one thing... A strike from a trout, and that is what keeps me coming back.'"
The Pine in the picture is beautiful and full of possibilities for the angler, as it is for me. And Pine will administer a lesson whenever it sees fit. But, like Curt, Bing, and Al, it will keep me always coming back - to experience, to learn, and to understand even if it only provides a little more each time. What a joy it was to fish with Curt and Al, to know them, and to see their fervor for knowledge and the water we love.
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Thanks for being with us again. We'll be back in another week with another newsletter full of stocking videos - we have many more! Don't forget, we have flyfishing float trips available - call the shop for more details. Call us or drop us an email to let us know what is on your mind - or call to find up-to-the-minute details on stream conditions and what is happening on the water. Please, stay in touch with Pine, Slate, and Cedar by going to our website slaterun.com - we'll update as often as possible.
Thanks again for being with us!
Sincerely,
The Tackle Shop Team
Tom & Deb Finkbiner - Proprietors, etc.
Jed Grove - Sales Manager, etc.
Dave Wonderlich - Website, Newsletter, etc.
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NEW SALE
The last week of April through all of May, Orvis, and Slate Run Tackle Shop is offering 20% off Access, Superfine Touch, and Clearwater Outfits.
Purchase an Orvis rod, reel, & fly line and save 20%. This is a mix and match style promotion, meaning the customer can choose which rod, reel or fly line they'd like to package together. The rod series that can be used within this promotion includes: Access, Superfine Touch, and Clearwater. Slate Run Tackle Shop is also offering the Streamline complete outfit at 20% off retail as well. Helios 2 rods can NOT be used for this promotion.
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Shop closeout sale
continues until products are gone...
Pro Guide Stockingfoot Wader reg. $395, now $225; Silver Label Bootfoot Wader with Eco Trax soles reg. $475, now $299; Sonic Weld Pack & Travel Wader Pant (x-large), now $198. Wading boots with closeout deals include: River Guard Ultralight Boot with Eco Trax soles reg. $198, now $179; River Guard Easy-On Brogue Boot with Eco Trax soles $198, now $148. Also on sale are Orvis Trout Bum Shirts in burnt red, light blue, and olive reg. $65, now $43; very limited numbers of the Under Wader Fleece Suit reg. $129, now $99.
Helios2
Helios2 rods are in!
Come and give the latest advance in rod design a cast - it may be hard to leave without one!
lighter...
more powerful!
Convert to waist high without removing suspenders with the new $259 Silver Sonic Waders - fully waterproof double-airlock interior pocket - new gravel guard makes on/off even easier - anatomically shaped feet - flexible - comfortable - breatheable - a pleasure to wear!
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PO Box 1, Route 414, Slate Run, PA 17769
Phone: 570.753.8551 Fax: 570.753.8920 info@slaterun.com
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Great new flies, fly rods, and fly fishing supplies and accessories coming in weekly! Stop in and join the Brown Trout Club!
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