Steve Piatt: Suffering through a fishing slump? Just keep fishing

It’s not unusual – disappointing, yes – when a long-awaited trip simply doesn’t produce the kind of fishing you had hoped. It happens, more often than we admit, but you typically accept it with a shrug of the shoulders and move on to the next outing.
That was the case in late May when I headed to one of my favorite central Pennsylvania trout streams (Kettle Creek) for two nights of tent camping at a state park, with designs on hitting the Green Drake hatch and casting to scores of rising, cooperative trout.

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