24 Hours on the "Real" Spruce Creek
Spur of the moment fishing trips are the best. Like when my friend Brian Pitell called up on a Tuesday and asked if I’d be available to...
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Ralph Scherder
- May 8
- 6 min
The Cross Fork Experience
Like many excursions, I ended up on a different stream than I set out for. My target had been Kettle Creek, and I had every intention of...
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Ralph Scherder
- Apr 23
- 6 min
April Showers Bring...Blue Quills on First Fork!
I caught two trout on my first two casts before I realized there was a full scale Blue Quill hatch going on and trout were rising all...
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Ralph Scherder
- Mar 9
- 4 min
Steel City Trout: 3 Pittsburgh Area Streams Worth a Visit
By 1840, Pittsburgh had grown into one of the largest cities west of the Allegheny Mountains in large part due to its production of iron,...
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Ralph Scherder
- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 min
Exploring the Hickory Creek Wilderness
In 1984, the United States Congress designated 8,663 acres in northwestern Pennsylvania as the Hickory Creek Wilderness. The purpose of...
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Ralph Scherder
- Aug 9, 2021
- 9 min
PA's Forgotten Limestoner: Yellow Creek, Bedford County
Yellow Creek is perhaps the least-known of Pennsylvania’s limestone streams, but it just might be the best. Of course, least-known...
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Ralph Scherder
- May 24, 2021
- 8 min
A 3-Stream Tour of the Allegheny National Forest
It was a foggy, rainy Saturday morning when Greg Wickline and I headed to the Allegheny National Forest (ANF). Salmon Creek and a few...
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Ralph Scherder
- Apr 28, 2021
- 6 min
Wire to Wire on Spruce Creek
I followed Route 453 South from Tyrone, glancing down at the Little Juniata River flowing low and clear in the early morning light. For...
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Ralph Scherder
- Apr 22, 2021
- 7 min
Home Waters: First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek
There’s a ritual to arriving at camp. I unlock the door and step inside where it’s nice and cool and the air has that familiar, camp...
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Ralph Scherder
- Apr 14, 2021
- 7 min
Exploring New Waters: Spring Creek, PA
A crew of workers and machinery blocked the road leading to Fisherman’s Paradise, and the woman in charge of traffic informed me that it...
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Ralph Scherder
- Mar 25, 2021
- 7 min
Low Water Tactics: Fishing the Buffalo Creek DHALO
With only half a day to fish last week, I opted for home waters. I was due to pick my two kids up at daycare that afternoon, so I didn’t...
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Ralph Scherder
- Mar 16, 2021
- 5 min
Piney Creek DHALO
As I pulled into the parking area within Old Mill Park, I saw a guy downstream netting a trout. In the time it took me to string up my...
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Ralph Scherder
- Mar 11, 2021
- 6 min
Chillin' on the Cool Spring Creek DHALO
I stopped at the Neshannock Creek Fly Shop on my way to Cool Spring Creek to replenish some fly tying supplies. When the guy behind the...
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Ralph Scherder
- Mar 6, 2021
- 3 min
Fly Fishing the Oil Creek Region
One of my earliest fishing memories is driving across the bridge in Oil City as caddisflies plastered the windshield. They were...
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Ralph Scherder
- Feb 26, 2021
- 5 min
Deer Creek DHALO
A diamond in the rough, that’s how a fellow fly fisherman described Deer Creek in Allegheny County. But diamond may be a bit too...
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Ralph Scherder
- Feb 5, 2021
- 4 min
Laurel Highlands Trout Trail
Forget Marcellus Shale, coal mining, or timbering – water is still our number one resource. And when it comes to trout streams, in...
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Ralph Scherder
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
Neshannock Creek Revisited
Note: I've written about Neshannock Creek in the past here on Keystone Fly Fisher. That original entry focused around my first trip to...
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Ralph Scherder
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
Upper West Branch Susquehanna River
As evening settled in, the stream’s smooth surface became dotted with the rings of feeding trout. Seemingly gnat-sized mayflies fluttered...
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Ralph Scherder
- Nov 6, 2020
- 6 min
Ghost Town Trail
Although not exactly a fly fishing destination, Ghost Town Trail is still a great place to visit and there is fishing nearby at Yellow...
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Ralph Scherder
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
Clarion River and its Tributaries
The Clarion River almost ruined me. My first day fishing there, I landed an even dozen wild brown trout, two of which measured over 20...
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