Back on the Clarion

     With the lack of winter we have been having here in the Northeast, the normal ice fishing months have been put on hold.  Normally this would make for a boring winter, but when you have the Clarion river in your backyard it can make for some great late season trout fishing.  This big boy was caught the day after Valentines Day.  Even with water temps in the low to mid 30s this big brown was very eager to smash a streamer that was just barely under the surface.  He came at it so hard that his entire head come out of the water with it before I could even set the hook.  Also pictured are a couple of flies that I tied up the day before just for this situation that produced very well for us all day long.

More Clarion River Browns

I took advantage of having a Friday off from guiding to do a little fishing of my own on the Clarion River.  My father-in-law Fred and Mark, owner of Whitetail Country sporting goods in Olean, NY, joined me on the float.  We moved a lot more fish than were pictured but they were not being real aggressive.  The water was still high (6ft) and cold.  We had a lot of follows and fish just barely nipping at our streamers.   We did manage a few though.  Can't wait for the water to warm up and the bugs to start.

Just an AVERAGE day on the Clarion River

These are some more pics courtesy of Shane.  He and Micah made the first float of the year down the Clarion River in North Central PA.  This quality of fish and larger are about what you can expect on an average day on this awesome piece of water.  You will be seeing plenty more pics from Shane on this blog and lots of pics of great trophy brown trout from the Clarion River.  Our fishing season there has just started with the best to come soon!