Sunday Slab On The Tulpehocken Creek

This past weekend the weather was awful. I suppose it could’ve been worse, heavier rain, maybe a snowstorm, but 99% of the streams in the Mid-Atlantic were blown out, again! This has been a wet spring, but this means we will be fishing for trout well into the summer. The only waters not affected by all this wet weather were tailwaters that don’t have many tributaries impacting their flows below their dams. One of these tailwaters just happens to be my home water, the Tulpehocken Creek in Berks County. In the Keystone Select Special Regulation water on the Tulpehocken there are only two small tributaries, Plum Creek at Rebers Bridge and the Cacoosing Creek at the Paper Mill Bridge. It takes an extended rain for these two bodies of water to have a significant impact on the Tulpehocken flows. The dam release out of Blue Marsh Lake has been slowed recently and has been holding around 240CFS.

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The Wiconisco, Also Known As Brookie Nation

Last week I was looking forward to getting back on eastern Pennsylvania waters after three weeks of fishing on the road. I decided that on Saturday I’d continue my exploration of Keystone Select waters by heading to the Wiconisco Creek. The Wiconisco is a freestone tributary of the Susquehanna River that flows through Schuylkill and Dauphin Counties.

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