Honey Creek Pennsylvania Fishing Report & Options for Selecting Flies: Email us at (sales@perfectflystore.com) with the dates you will be fishing and we will send you a list of our fly recommendations. We can get flies and gear to you within two to three business days from the time you place your order via Priority Mail. If you provide a budget for flies, we will select them to match the budget and get them to you on time for your trip. Your can also call us at 800-594-4726 and we will help you decide what flies and gear to use. All orders are shipped free in the U.S. If under a $100 order requiring Priority mail is a charge of only $8.10. Orders over a $100 are shipped free via Priority Mail.
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Type of Stream
Freestone in its headwaters but
Limestone in the main section of
Honey Creek
Species
Brown Trout (Wild)
Brook Trout (Native)
Rainbows (Stocked)
Size
Medium
Location
South Central Pennsylvania
Nearest Towns
Siglerville
Season
Middle of April through February
Access:
Good
Non-Resident License
State of Pennsylvania
Weather
National Weather Service Link
Seasons:
The season follows the regular Pennsylvania trout season.
Spring:
Springtime is the best time for fly fishing Honey Creek due to the aquatic insect hatches.
Summer:
The hottest days of summer can cause most sections to get too warm in many sections.
Fall:
Fall is the best time to catch the larger brown trout.
Winter:
Fly fishing Honey Creek can be great even on very cold days.
Recommended Tackle & Gear
Fly Line:
4, 5 or 6 weight
Leaders:
Dry fly: 9 to 12 ft., 5 or 6X Nymphing:
71/2 ft., 3 or 4X, Streamers 0-2X
Tippets:
Dry fly: 5 or 6X, Nymphing: 3 or 4X,
Streamer 0-2X
Best Fly Rods:
Perfect Fly Supreme Four, Superb Five
or Ultimate Six
Fly Reels:
For 4/5/6 fly line
Fly Floatants and Misc Items:
Floatants, KISS Strike Indicators
Tools & Accessories:
Nippers, forceps, retractors, etc.
Copyright 2013 James Marsh
Fly Fishing Honey Creek Pennsylvania
Honey Creek is a small, stream that’s a tributary of Kishacoquillas Creek in South Central Pennsylvania near Reedsville and Lewiston. It starts near Reeds Gap State Park and flows for about thirteen miles.
Trester and Havice are its two major headwater tributary streams. These are both freestone streams that help form the Honey Creek. Both of these are heavily stocked by the state. They flow underground and emerge from a cave to form Honey Creek.
Downstream, near Siglerville, the stream becomes more spring creek-like. Below where the streams and some of its tributaries flows underground in some areas, the water is less acidic and the insect population changes from the fast water clinger mayflies and stoneflies to crawlers and swimmers that tend to inhibit water with a higher pH. In the main section of Honey Creek you will find lots of net-spinning caddisflies, Whiteflies, Drakes and plenty of Sulphurs. There’s a decent Green Drake hatch on this stream. There have been several stream improvements added to this creek. Fly fishing Honey Creek can be a real treat.
Honey Creek is considered a “Class A” trout stream by the state and it isn’t stocked. It has a very good population of stream-bred brown trout. There’s a “Delayed Harvest” section of Honey Creek located 1.75 miles; from the upper Bald Eagle Street Forest boundary
downstream for 1.75 miles.
This stream ranges from easy to fish, in the stocked section, to quite difficult in its main section. The wild stream-born brown trout are not pushovers. Angie and I fished this stream all day one Fall day and only caught four brown trout. One was a good 15 inches and the others 12 inches or less.