Stream Reports

Last weekend was a good bit cooler than the previous week in our area of Pennsylvania with air temperatures staying in the upper 30's for anglers spending the Thanksgiving holiday with us at HomeWaters. The fishing has remained about the same with anglers fishing low and clear water conditions while catching enough numbers and quality fish to have a good time as we have continued to do throughout the majority of the fall season.

With colder water temperatures most of the fish we've caught recently have been with nymph rigs and slowly stripped or dead-drifted smaller streamers. As many of you know subsurface techniques continue to catch fish all winter long on our water with flies such as Egg Patterns, Attractor Style Nymphs, and Wooly Buggers. On the warmer afternoons we have continued to see a few Blue Winged Olives and Midges hatching, however, surface activity has been secondary to the majority of activity being with rigs fished on the bottom in the deeper sections of water. 

The current 10 day forecast is calling for temperatures to remain cooler with daytime highs in the mid to upper 30's as we often expect for this time of year with the winter months approaching, so this will be the last formal weekly stream report of the 2025 season. We do fish at HomeWaters all winter long, and will continue to keep you informed when favorable winter fishing forecasts appear, as we often look for windows of weather that provide daytime highs near that magic number of 40 degrees. If those of you that enjoy spending time on the water during the winter months who don't mind colder temperatures would like an up to date report of current weather and water conditions you can always give the fly shop a call.

Overall, the 2025 fishing season was an awesome year at HomeWaters, and we are thankful to have shared those memories with all of our members and guests. The spring started out with a bang as we had one of the best springs of fishing in recent memory across Spruce Creek, Penns Creek, Yellow Creek, and the Little Juniata River. Our Spring was extended through June with anticipation of the 17 year brood of Cicadas being at the club this year. While the Cicadas emerged we had much cooler and higher water conditions than we typically experience in June which made the dry fly fishing with Cicadas more limited than anyone could have expected. The good part about that was higher water conditions and cooler weather allowed productive nymph fishing throughout the month of June and favorable water conditions stuck around for summer trout fishing.The extra rain in June also gave us a summer of favorable water conditions on the Juniata River which allowed for an excellent summer of topwater and popper fishing for smallmouth bass float trips. As is often the case with mother nature things tend to balance out, all of the extra rain and higher water of the spring faded away as we had a fall with very little rain and longer periods of low and clear water. 

All in all, 2025 was a fishing season at the club to be very thankful for and we are fortunate that so many of you choose to share a full season on the water with us each year. We are looking forward to wrapping up the 2025 season with those who will be visiting us this winter, and already can't wait to get the 2026 fishing season started!