The steelhead are in! It's time to break out the long rods, 12lb. tippet and bright flies. With the steady rains fresh fish have been entering the creeks all through Pennsylvania and New York. I've been guiding guests as well as fishing on my own. Most of the Pennsylvania Tributaries have few to no fish making it very far up the creeks yet. The report on Elk is very few fish up to Follies. I will be on the Catt. pending on rain tonight to fish the Gowanda area. There have been fish on the Reservation since Mid September. I'll keep you posted as the fish make migrations into the upper creeks and Catt. updates. Check back frequently for your fall trout fishing tips too. As the caddis are blanketing the Allegheny in the evening.

Best Fishes,

Damon

The streams were calling yesterday late afternoon/evening. With the high blown out conditions on Tuesday we knew there had to be some early fish that came in with all of the high water. Our hunch was right! We didn't see or catch the explosive numbers like late October and November it was still nice to land some fresh steelhead in late September though.
There are plenty of fish in and as we continue to get rain they will continue to run and fill the streams. We caught several in a matter of a couple of hours last night and the next mission will be to start exploring the upper reaches and continue to fish the big water in New York once it has dropped out. I look forward to seeing everyone on the water this fall and winter.

Best Fishes,

Damon

My good friend Steve (Lake Erie Ultimate Angler Owner) said it best last week at the Orvis dealer meeting, "we need a hurricane rain", well Steve not only did we get the rain we got the wind too!

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and a little today we've been seeing good, steady, rain from lake Erie well inland. The tribs were blown out yesterday and very difficult to fish with months of debris being cleaned out. For anyone worried about the mouths I have some before and after pictures below. Once the water clears the steelhead season is on! We'll be reporting more steelhead conditions as water levels change and as fish make there way further and further upstream.

If you don't steelhead fish and would like to learn how or just tune up on your skills: Lake Erie Ultimate angler is having a steelhead school October 24th. Click the link to the right and sign up!

You will learn techniques to improve and catch more fish!!!!!!

Best Fishes,

Damon Newpher

Doug Bear from Orvis hosted a great event at Ridgway Pennsylvania this past week for Orvis Dealers from all over Pennsylvania. Doug covered great new products that Orvis will be introducing this fall and the early part of 2010 including the Hydros Rod. You will see Christine in one of the pictures above with a GREAT Clarion River Brown that Guide Brian Minich put her on while we floated six of the dealers this past Tuesday. Pictured above is Orvis Endorsed Guide Ben Turpin holding a nice brown and Shane Appleby, two handed rod guru, with a Clarion River Rainbow. The fishing Tuesday was hit and miss we still managed to boat some very nice fish and the Dealers got to experience the float on the Clarion. It's always nice to be with great people in our wonderful industry.

With rain in the forecast for this weekend I'll be checking the Steelhead waters on Tuesday. Check back next week for your steelhead report.

Best Fishes,

Damon Newpher