The Gunpowder is still HIGH as of 4/3 at 11:00AM.
Doesn’t look so bad, but it the river is running at 337cfs. I think about 250cfs is the maximum for any kind of reasonable fishing. 75 to 150cfs is about ideal.
So Tuesday (on the recommendation of Theaux at Backwater Angler) I headed over to Little Falls near Dairy Road, which was in much better shape.
The main attraction of Little Falls is supposed to be the stocked fish. Opening day for many stocked streams, including Little Falls, was March 29, and it seems like the put and take fishermen did a pretty good job this year.
This section Little Falls is characterized by a series of runs and relatively deep holes. Given the high water and off color conditions, streamer fishing seemed to be in order. Surprisingly, my black wooly bugger had more success with the wild browns than with the stocked rainbows.
There was a fairly consistent hatch of brown stoneflies which were substantially larger than the little black stoneflies I saw recently at Morgan Run.
Unfortunately, as high and cloudy as the water was I didn’t see any rises and nymphing was not particularly effective with the patterns I was using.
James Kibler 