Return to the Upper Allegheny

With a Sunday departure back to Annapolis on the horizon, today beckoned for one more fly fishing outing.  So I headed back to the DHALO (which stands for Delayed Harvest Artifical Lures Only) section of the Allegheny River, a few miles north of Coudersport.

Got to the special regs section about 10:00 am and had the stream to myself for the next five hours.  No real difference in water conditions, but fish were once again stacked up in the most likely lies.

Worked my way down from the Regis facility for about a mile or so.  Picked up two Rainbows and a sucker on a wooly worm.  On my way back up stream, though, I noticed a bend in the creek that was holding over a dozen fish.  Decided to switch things up and tied on a hopper with a green caddis pupae dropper:

Managed one Rainbow on the hopper-dropper rig, then decided to take the pupae off and tie on one of Breitmeier's white caddis nymphs.  Nice thing about that fly is that you can see it pretty clearly in the shallow water.  The fly change turned out to be the right call.  Brought two Rainbows to the hand that went around 14-15 inches:

Probably could have stayed a bit longer and tied into a few more fish, but the damage was done, and Mosch's called.  Back to Annapolis tomorrow; time to get back on the Bay!

Tight lines,

Mikey D Fishing