Little Juniata River, PA
DHALO section
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 8:00 to 11:00
- Best Fishing Time
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Rating
- Good
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- 52.0°F
- Water Clarity
- Slightly Stained - 3' to 5' visibility
- Water Level
- 2.80ft. - 421 cf
- User
- Herb Yost
Fish Caught
Rainbow Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 13" | #2 Silver | |
| 12 | 13" |
Brown Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 10" | #2 Silver | |
| 5 | 10" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny | X | ||
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | ||
| Wind | |||
| Light - 5 to 10 knots | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 60.0°F / 40.0°F
- Wind Direction
- S
- Weather Front
- Today followed a cold front.
- Barometer
- 30.28 steady
- Moon Phase
- 78% Full (Waning gibbous)
Other Patterns Tried
No other pattern information for this outing.
Hatches
No hatch information for this outing.
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
No fishing partners were saved with this outing.
Waypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
Notes
MCB, TMM, & BD:
It was bit cooler than I would have liked to start the morning, but it was nice by the time I finished up about 11:00. I checked the LJ water level early and thought it was still a bit higher than I would like it to be, so I was fairly sure the DHALO section would be in good shape for fishing this morning. I got there about 7:30 and drove downstream to the beginning of the DHALO section. When I got there I found another car was already parked close to where I wanted to start fishing. I didn't see anyone around, so I hoped it was a fly-guy who was fishing one of the holes and I could just walk around him.
I fished for an hour and a half and still didn't see anyone on the stream. In that time frame I only caught two fish, both stocked rainbows and both nice fish. The one rainbow was the biggest fish I caught this morning at 15 inches and the other was 13 inches. About two minutes after I caught the big rainbow, two spin guys came walking downstream, they were the guys who were in the car parked near where I started. They had been fishing ahead of me for the first hour and a half of my morning. I figured that was probably the case, since I wasn't catching any fish in spots that I almost always catch a fish or two. They told me that between them they had caught 25 trout since about 7:00 this morning. I told them that I caught the two they missed on their way upstream.
About 10 minutes later I must have finally gotten to above where those two guys quit, because I started to catch fish. I caught 15 trout in the next hour and a half. If I would have gotten to the stream before those guys I may have had a really good morning. However, it would have been even cooler at 7:00 AM than it was when I started to fish. I had fished about 3/4 of DHALO section before I passed those two guys going in the other directions. Lucky for me the section right below the old #220 bridge wasn't full of fly-guys when I got there this morning. Usually by about 10:30 or 11:00 it's got guys fishing below the bridge. I fished above the bridge and caught some nice rainbow trout in that section. This is the first time that I fished above the DHALO section and I fished upstream until I was behind a junk yard, then it was about 11:00, so I got out and walked back to my truck.
All in all it was a good morning. I caught 17 trout in about three hours, well actually I caught most of them 15 out of 17 in about 1.5 hours. Spin fishing behind guys going upstream is usually a waste of time, particulary if the guys ahead of you know what they are doing. The two guys I met this morning were good spin fishers and didn't leave me many fish that weren't at least spooked behind them. I caught all stocked fish with the exception of two of the browns I caught. The rainbows were all nice fish in the 12-13-14 inch range. The five browns were smaller fish and the wild browns were both around 9 inch fish.
O&O:LJH