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9-27-2014 Slate Run Tackle Shop Newsletter

Tom discusses Schools, Stocking, Brown Trout Club Non-profit!

Slate Run Tackle Shop's Brown Trout Club
Stocking Sept. 2014

It is great to be back with another newsletter! The best stocking we've ever had is complete, the insects are hatching, and the trout feeding. The first video above is of Tom discussing schools, stocking, and the Brown Trout Club becoming a non-profit. The second is the 1st stocking video - check the size of those trout! The third is of Scott Yoder catching one of the German Browns on a dry. The fourth is the 2nd video of stocking - 17 or 18 inches was typical rather than the exception! The next is a picture of the lower Little Slate Pool, and the last is of this writer catching a fine German Brown that didn't want to come to net... Enjoy, we have so much more for the future!

Scott Yoder and a Pine Creek Butter-Sided Brown Sept. 10, 2014

What's working...

Fishing has been absolutely great! It has been an eye opener to see the variety and quantity of hatches taking place in September each day - the hatches and numbers are ever increasing: Slate Drakes - the spinner looks like a huge Rusty Spinner #12 ; Hexagenia (Green Drake patterns and Coffin Fly Spinner); Heptagenia (Pale Evening Dun - best results are with the spinner stage and a Rusty Spinner works well (the dun emerges very quickly and almost makes it irrelevant; Cahills - cream, yellow, and orange; BWOs, and their great female spinner the Rusty Spinner (which also doubles as the Sulphur Spinner); caddis are numerous (the October Caddis has begun; and, of course, there are millions of midges. Terrestrials are another staple from now until winter with ants, crickets, grasshoppers, inch worms, and various frog patterns. Right now anglers are catching trout morning to night. If the water warms a little, it will again be best morning and evening.

Slate Run Tackle Shop's Brown Trout Club Sept. Stocking #2

Just a few more casts...

Pardigms

Paradigms can be defined as a distinct concept or thought pattern. Without an awareness and understanding of this, they may be the single most limiting factor in our ability to become better anglers, or, for that matter, keep us from thinking beyond what we learned long ago. Here, I'm only concerned with those old ideas governing the attitudes toward the management of Slate Run's Delayed Harvest Stretch.

Examples of old paradigms we've discovered in conversations at the shop (and which most of us have embraced): trout are semi-dormant during the winter in a freestone stream; there is an optimal temperature at which trout like to feed; trout must almost be hit on the nose to take an offering as the water temperature lowers; there is little movement and fly activity in the coldest months; Pine in the Slate Run Delayed Harvest Stretch gets too warm in the summer to hold trout.

We have seen in the shop over the last few years, that all the above ideas are false even though we adhered to them almost religiously! It may be that we now know the truth since we are on Pine almost daily and have not only observed but taken video proof. In years gone by, we weren't on Pine in the "off seasons" and missed what was really happening. Trout move in the winter to feed, particularly on a sunny day; trout preference for a feeding temperature is purely relative (if the water temperature drops from 60 to 50, it may put them off their feed - with a rise from 34 to 36 on a sunny January or February afternoon you will see trout actively pursuing hatching flies - and, we've seen them move 8 feet to take an emerger. Please, take a look at the picture above, it was taken the day the Fish and Boat Commission shocked the Delayed Harvest. The picture is one of five taken of the large pod of mostly brown trout at the base of Little Slate. It was the very beginning of September, at the end of the summer, before any additional trout had been stocked, and there were many, many trout as you can see - and this is one of five pictures and this does not include the pod of trout at mouth of Slate. Too hot? Tell that to the trout! We could take a lesson from our cold water friends, they don't suffer from our paradigms.

For a real treat, come up in October and early November and watch the browns moving upstream to Slate to spawn. And, come up in January and February to watch trout movement into the warmer shallows to feed in the afternoons. "The Stretch" is a wonder of the natural movements of aquatic life taking place, and it is here in Central Pennsylvania. Will we have the guts and foresight to protect it and all that it gives to those who look? Please keep this resource our first priority and it will continue giving in perpetuity.

Dave's 20+ Inch Pine Creek Butter-Sided German Brown

Dave's 20+ Inch Pine Creek German Brown

Thanks for being with us again. We'll be back in another few weeks with more stocking videos and footage of anglers who have tied into those fish.

Don't forget, we have fly fishing guided trips and 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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