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I would love to do this, but must respectfully disagree with our Freinds Indian Freind, I don't care about large heat from little wood, I'm after "who cares about heat as long as it can be seen from space". With the response here it almost looks more like a gathering, or clave. Potter County is interesting, Have not fished there since the mid seventies. Used to love young womens creek and the slate run.

One interesting aside to make every trout fisherman feel better. In 1972 I hiked the Black Forest Trail (second or third year after it wa "opened"). I was so excited about the fishing but was most interested infishing a little creek in the middle of nowhere and crossed only once by a road several miles from where the trail crossed, called Naval Run. Why would such a small unknown creek interest me so much? Because at that time it was one of only a few streams in PA that had a wild brown trout population, the guidebook said that it was the only one in Northern PA. I recently thought about this as I was talking with my Dad about our trip this year. We have so many more options now than we had in the 1970's when I was a kid. So many of the really great fisheries we take for granted to day were rescued from pollution and desolation in the late 70's and beyond. The much maligned wisconsin spotted dace was a rarity in many coulees until the late 80's, and in the northeast almost all fish were stocked, and died by the fourth of July from the pollution, if not the heat. Massachusetts rivers ran whatever color the local textile mill was dying that day but last fall the Millers River Flyfisher (a great blog by the way) reported catching a 4 inch native rainbow, in a river called an open sewer less than 20 years ago. All of the great lakes were in danger of dying in 1970, Lake Erie was declared dead and unrecoverable by 1972. Noe people in the lakes district don't fish for trout as much, having been spoiled by large runs of great lakes steelhead and breeding 10 lb browns.

Sorry to hijack the thread, didn't mean too but just the mention of Potter County got me to musing. What I am saying is that even 20 years ago a discussion like this would be limited to a very few waters, especially in June, where hopefully a couple stockers had survived the worm chucker onslaught. We have come a long way in a very short time, we should use that as an inspiration, and a warning. We came this far because we had an expanding economy and ample discretionary money, rich societies are the only ones that can spare valuable resources for preservation and conservation. Hard economic times often have the unintended consequence of backsliding on these activities. so continue to support local watershed organizations, it makes much more of a difference than many think.