Bushkill, PA Bushkill Creek May/June 2021

Beautiful place and fish. The thing about trout that i like is they live in neat places and the scenery is usually beautiful.

Fresh water trout like shrimp too. I have fished the White River in AR for years. The owner of a dock and boat rental place used to trap crawfish and sell them. We pulled the tail off and peeled the flesh out and put on the hook. Pretty good trout bait. I started buying the crawfish tails packaged in China or somewhere and sold at Walmart in frozen food section and started using them. Then eventually just moved to the shrimp that was sold beside them. The scent must be close to a crawfish.

Just a little tidbit of info for those that trout fish and another tool in the toolbox.

DAY 3

I got up early and left Nate snoozing, probably shouldn't be out without a fishing partner since bears and injuries happen, but he's 15 and getting ornery.
Let sleeping dogs lay and whatnot, he's growing fast and needs his sleep.

Morning, zero trout and two new holes in my waders.
Breakfast.
Shopping for new waders with no luck locally, screw it they're pinprick holes from briars and not real bad... Wet left foot and buttock for the rest of the trip.
Lunch at a hole-n-the-wall Lebanese cafe/grocery, came highly recommended and ... OMG'osh was it good!
Naps for everybody!
Cook dinner and go fishing to no avail.

Talking to people at the local sporting goods stores just proved what I already knew, low water levels makes for higher water temps and less activity and crystal clear clarity makes them much warier/cautious. All the locals say this season sucks, but everyone is keeping at them, makes the few that ya catch more rewarding.

G'night folks.

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Originally Posted by CJW

You are killing me Chile........

Now my wife knows there is one person on earth besides me that can’t ever buy just one lure.

Please keep the reports coming.

Chuck

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Fishing a spinning rig in these environs means lots of lost lures to every snag imaginable in the water, trees-n-bushes and fish jewelry.
These are my Go-To lures after three trips up here and it's not uncommon to lose several in day.
My wife is the same way, "What in the heck do you need all those for, and the same types?!". blissfully ignorant since she doesn't fish.

I've had good success with shoe-goo on waders fixing small holes and even large tears. Sat down on a log once, and poked the nub end of a broke limb right through to the skin....shoe goo fixed it and held for several years. I used duck tape on the inside with shoe goo in the hole, but the tape wouldn't be necessary with a small briar hole. Thanks for the great stories and cool pics. You are in a beautiful part of the planet. Such green grass and everything up there....