First and foremost, many, many thanks to those folks who shared info and made suggestions regarding our visit to PA, my wife - a non angler - and I had a great
time....
We spent four days down in the Carlisle area making the Allenberry Resort Inn & Playhouse our "base camp". It was a very nice place, and located right on the Yellow Breeches Creek. Checking out I was told we had the same room that Joe Humphreys always takes when he teaches fly fishing at the Inn, interesting. I got to explore/fish 4 PA spring creeks: Yellow Breeches, Letort, Falling Spring Branch, and Big Spring. I was lucky enough to fool/catch trout in each one, except for Falling Spring but that might have been the time of day I fished it. My most memoriable trout was a 15" wild brown I caught in Vince's Meadows on the Letort, it was an awe inspiring experience wandering the banks of this creek.
We also ate at Boiling Springs Tavern as suggested - wise recommendation, took in a play at the Inn, and spent a day sight-seeing in Lancaster, although in retrospect that was too much of a tourist trap for us and we would have been utilized our time visiting Gettysburg again.
I had intended to bring/fish my two Art Weiler cane rods, but with all the rain we had in the Catskills before we left I ended up bringing just one Weiler rod, a 7' 4 weight 201 Garrison taper - love it, but fished my 7 1/2' 5 weight Pickard Dickerson taper most of of the time. That extra rod length cleared foliage around the creeks and easily tossed small streamers in Yellow Breeches.
Tom, nice running into you on Big Spring --- you make a very nice cane rod indeed, a one piece no less. And if I could only fish one of these creeks again, it would be Big Spring although my most memorable trout was the brown on the Letort.
Thanks again everyone for input... just wanted to report back now that we are home in the Catskills once more entertaining family on this 4th of July weekend...
Ed
PS - If you provided input on my orginial post below, PM with your Email address if you want the "full report" with a few pictures...
http://clarksclassicflyrodforum.yuku.com/topic/25369
We spent four days down in the Carlisle area making the Allenberry Resort Inn & Playhouse our "base camp". It was a very nice place, and located right on the Yellow Breeches Creek. Checking out I was told we had the same room that Joe Humphreys always takes when he teaches fly fishing at the Inn, interesting. I got to explore/fish 4 PA spring creeks: Yellow Breeches, Letort, Falling Spring Branch, and Big Spring. I was lucky enough to fool/catch trout in each one, except for Falling Spring but that might have been the time of day I fished it. My most memoriable trout was a 15" wild brown I caught in Vince's Meadows on the Letort, it was an awe inspiring experience wandering the banks of this creek.
We also ate at Boiling Springs Tavern as suggested - wise recommendation, took in a play at the Inn, and spent a day sight-seeing in Lancaster, although in retrospect that was too much of a tourist trap for us and we would have been utilized our time visiting Gettysburg again.
I had intended to bring/fish my two Art Weiler cane rods, but with all the rain we had in the Catskills before we left I ended up bringing just one Weiler rod, a 7' 4 weight 201 Garrison taper - love it, but fished my 7 1/2' 5 weight Pickard Dickerson taper most of of the time. That extra rod length cleared foliage around the creeks and easily tossed small streamers in Yellow Breeches.
Tom, nice running into you on Big Spring --- you make a very nice cane rod indeed, a one piece no less. And if I could only fish one of these creeks again, it would be Big Spring although my most memorable trout was the brown on the Letort.
Thanks again everyone for input... just wanted to report back now that we are home in the Catskills once more entertaining family on this 4th of July weekend...
Ed
PS - If you provided input on my orginial post below, PM with your Email address if you want the "full report" with a few pictures...
http://clarksclassicflyrodforum.yuku.com/topic/25369
