Stream Reports

It has certainly felt like fall is right around the corner as we've had anglers at HomeWaters recently hitting the water to take advantage of the beautiful, cooler weather to start September. Over the last week the fishing was productive, at the same time it’s great to have football on TV, cooler nights, and daytime temperatures in the 70's. 

It's been very comfortable lately with the low humidity, but as the drier weather overall has led to water conditions returning to the seasonal norm of low and clear. Without much sign of rain in the longtime forecast, it is looking as though these conditions will stick around. However, the temperatures have been cool, and the fish have stayed pretty happy. .

It's been a very good late summer of trout fishing on all of our beats across Spruce Creek, Yellow Creek, and Penns Creek. Small nymphs have worked well to catch both numbers and quality fish, fished under smaller indicators as well as drop rigged under a dry. Over the weekend quite a few fish were caught on larger, indicator-style dries as well. Forge Bottom on Yellow Creek has been consistently offering good opportunities to fish dry flies with pretty good numbers of rising fish. The primary bugs on water have been Paraleps, Terrestrials, and a few Caddis.

September smallmouth fishing conditions have settled in on the Juniata River which usually brings a very good late morning subsurface bite followed by warmer afternoons that still produce fish on topwater and popper flies. We've consistently had float trips going out with anglers taking advantage of good fishing combined with beautiful weather. This time of year we see the number of fish dip slightly compared to the summer months; however, it's a great time of year to catch larger fish on average. We expect the upcoming weeks to produce some great days of smallmouth fishing that produce good numbers of quality fish.

The weather has been beautiful, and the fishing has been very productive for this time of year. September is a good month to spend time at HomeWaters with a variety of good fishing options, see you soon!