No fish, but lots of pictures

I decided yesterday that I was going to try to hit the trico fall on Sunday morning. The problem was, it was starting to rain yesterday afternoon while I was at my nephew's birthday party about 2 miles from the Little Lehigh (Happy Birthday Rowan!). I had invited Mike from Troutrageous along but then told him that it might be a wash out and probably wouldn't be good fishing. He decided to pass, which was the right move. I was going to go anyway, figuring worst case scenario, I nymph and streamer fish and work hard for one or two trout. I sat up last night tying tricos, caddis, and beetles until about 1am because the stream levels still appeared to not be too bad. I was up at 5am, and when I got to the stream around 6:30, I couldn't believe how bad it was. It was 100% blown out, and getting worse by the minute.

I drove all the way up there so I decided to fish anyway. I only saw one rise all morning, and the only hit I had was a small brown that took a streamer and then spit the hook on me 30 seconds later. There was a massive swarm of tricos falling and if the water was clearer, I'm certain that I would have one of the best days of dry fly fishing in my entire life. I just held the tip of my rod out over the water for 30 seconds and when I pulled it back in, it was covered with about 15 tricos that were about to perish.


There so many that they even showed up when I took some video footage. Here's it is, in all it's low def glory.



Oh well. I didn't catch anything, but I decided to just take a ton of pictures to make up for the lack of fish.