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VENANGO COUNTY

Trout streams
Nick @ WildwoodOutfittersPa.com; filed 4-19: Sugar Creek
and Little Sandy Creek are both fishing great! Caddis have
been coming off with regularity and the fish have been re-
sponding well to them. Egg patterns are also producing fish,
especially in areas where suckers are present. Trout in both

streams are beginning to spread out and that should just con-
tinue with each passing storm.
(Editor’s note: Wildwood Outfitters is a fly-fishing guide service specializing in trout and
steelhead in NW PA; check out their website.)

Angler Al’s Sugar Creek Journal
April 13: My good friends Stan Huefner from Oil City, Tim Green and Buzzy Buza-

noski from Butler and myself, caught a total of 24 trout while wading a stretch of
Sugar Creek. Most of the fish were rainbows that averaged 11 to 13 inches. How-
ever, Buzzy hooked up on a 25-inch brown. Bob Roach caught a 20-inch golden
trout and Allan Heller – the only guy I saw fly fishing – caught several rainbows.
What a fine day to have spent on the water. (photos below)
April 19: For the most part, stream fluctuation here in Venango County played havoc
on our local trout streams. Conditions were challenging. I did manage to catch
and release 39 rainbows and 2 browns fishing a couple hours every day of the

week. The 11 to 13-inch trout were mostly caught on salmon eggs – pink, green
and yellow all worked. Trout also spanked a gold bladed yellow colored Rooster
Tail – until I lost it. I took Mikey Galkoski with me on Good Friday; it rained stead-
ily but he managed to catch 4 trout on his first-time drifting eggs. (photo below)
April 20: I drifted a 4-inch live creek bait in the high churning current beneath a
bridge over Sugar Creek that normally holds a population of trout and small-
mouth bass – and occasionally a walleye in the spring high water. Yes, this 22-

inch ‘eye smashed it and the fun began! (Photo below)