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INTERMEDIATE
FLY
FISHING
YELLOW
CREEK
by Ralph Scherder photos by the author
Y
ellow Creek, Bedford County, is perhaps the least-known
of Pennsylvania's limestone streams, but it just may be the
best. Of course, least-known doesn't mean least-fished,
and it can be intimidating pulling into the parking lot of the
Fly-Fishing Only section to find a dozen other vehicles already
there during the Sulphur emergence in May. That's why one of
my favorite times to fish Yellow Creek is late winter and early
spring. Often, I have the stream, and the fish, all to myself.
In fact, the first time I ever fished Yellow Creek was a cold,
snowy late-February day. Temperatures were in the mid-30s,
I knew trout would be sluggish, so I followed the well-worn
foot trail upstream along the Fly-Fishing Only section until a
slow-moving pool caught my eye. It didn't take long, and I don't
know who was more surprised, me or the fish, but on the sixth
cast, I hooked an 11-inch Brown Trout. That one trout would
have made my day, but the day only got better. It was a great
introduction to Yellow Creek.
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Yellow Creek is a 20.9-mile tributary to the Raystown
Branch Juniata River that rises near the town of Woodbury
and flows in a southeastern direction toward the town of
Loysburg. It starts out as a small, pastureland limestone
stream but undergoes a drastic transformation as it passes
through the Loysburg Gap. Cold springs pour into the stream
throughout the gap, setting the stage for a tremendously fertile
fishery downstream.
The most popular section of Yellow Creek is the 0.9-mile
Catch and Release Fly-Fishing Only section that begins at Red
Bank Hill and extends downstream to the mouth of Maple
Run. Almost a mile of stream isn't much on paper, but it is
when that stream is Yellow Creek. I've rarely encountered a
stream where every pocket, run, riffle, and pool harbors good
numbers of trout. You can spend an entire day working over
only a couple hundred yards of stream. I know, because I've
done it.
To access this part of Yellow Creek, turn east onto Jacks
Corner Road by the New Frontier Restaurant on State
Route 36. In approximately 2 miles, you'll see a sign on the
fishandboat.com
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