Early June is a joyous time on Pennsylvania’s north-central trout waters. Mayflies and caddis galore pretty much guarantee hot trout action from bottom hugging, emerging and floating insects alike.
While the region close to the New York border sees the birth of many a headwaters, drop down 30 or so miles – still in the north-central counties – and flows get wide and sometimes wooly. Many of these are broad, open waters where you can swing a wet fly after a long distance cast, work a nymph upstream along rocky shorelines and float a dry over long-pools and runs.
Try these three trout gems of Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier during the late spring
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