Open for Business

After a long hiatus the Rossiter Lodge was back open for business.

We were greeted with temperature more fitting for the end of May, instead of the first weekend of trout.
Once again Kory managed to win the fish pool. Catching both the largest (18 ½) and the most trout on Saturday. The kid kept at it all day long, although surprisingly he did stop and eat lunch.
Saturday afternoon we were treated to a wonderful caddis hatch that had the fish eagerly taking emergers right behind the camp. Sunday proved just as nice as the rest of the weekend, although the fishing was a little slower.

Get ready, the 5th annual BWS is just around the corner.

Classic Sporting Art

If you like classic sporting art, check out the work of Bob White.

http://www.whitefishstudio.com/

Easter Vigil Paella and Butifarra

The Chief was busy preparing another batch of butifarra, a Catalonian Garlic Sausage. The Easter Vigil Dinner Paella was prepared with chorizo, butifarra and shrimp. Happy Easter to All!

Happy Easter!

Holy Thursday

Goose looking for risers

Chief and the Goose usually spend Holy Thursday fishing Big Fishing Creek, but this year we settled for another very productive day on Spring Creek. After a hearty shore lunch of Country Fried Chicken Breast, Honey Mustard Potato Salad and Feta Stuffed Olives, we began to torture those dumb trout. Theory has it that the trouts' brain capacity was seriously and permanently affected by Mirex exposure. Hence the ungodly effectivess of the RBF Mirex Ant, not be confused with the BRF Chernobyl Ant, but quite similar in design.

Best fish of the afternoon

Several dozen dumb trout fell for the #20 RBF Olive Sparkle Dun, not to be confused with the BRF Olive Sparkle Dun. We continued to locate pods of rising trout and bring them to hand. We moved a bit upstream as the afternoon moved on and found many more rising trout. But these bastards were fussy. They refused the #20 RBF Olive Sparkle Dun, well not totally.

Past experiences with this wonderful cabin fever buster hatch reminded the Chief that it was time for his #20 RBF Half 'n Half Olive. Trout love those numerous crippled duns and helpless spinners. RBF's contraption resembles a cripple dun and a not so crippled spinner. We continued to catch those dumb trout with the #20 RBF Half 'n Half until we got tired of catching fish.



The Chief decided to just sit and watch Goose work his magic on those dumb trout. Trouble was, the Chief sat down right on his famous RBF Cedar Landing Net renderin it down to splinters. It will go back in the woodshop later for repairs.

It's that time of year when the Chief usually gets flogged by a gander and latter has a plump goose on the smoker. Don't know where he was this time. His mate just calmly sat on the nest as the Chief stumbled on by.

It's Spring Time in Penn's Woods

Chief and Katie

I enjoyed another day on the stream with my lovely daughter. We have been fishin buddies since she was old enough to stuff into a backpack. We tried to find some open water on Spring Creek but it was very difficult. Found two other local RBF Pro Staffers at the McCoy Dam. Those guys are like fly crap. While we were getting rigged up, Katie said that the fishing would be marginal today because the water was dropping after yesterday's rain. She's knows things.

There were a multitude of caddis on this bright sunny day. We decided to swing some wets in the new run created by the dam removal. Nothing, not a nibble.

We moved downstream hoping for some dry fly action. Katie tried to pound them up with a Caddis and a Beadhead just like her dad. She missed a couple. I bet you guys wish that you could throw a tight loop like Katie. She's a natural. Casting and line control came easy for her. Katie also ties flies and has been tying my RBF AP Emergers.

After a fishless few hours we enjoyed a good Catalan Shore Lunch. Catalan toast, roasted artichoke hearts, anchovies, olives, sheep cheese and some fine Muscato wine.

"Soc un gran pescador y gran cazador de la tortuga!"