Fly Fishing In A Flash Flood, Sullivan County, PA - Wooly Bugged

In this episode of Wooly Bugged, I travel to the Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania with Jared to explore a steep drainage for wild brook trout. We find cool water, beautiful waterfalls, and a great population of fish. Our adventure is interrupted when a large thunderstorm blows over the mountain and creates flash flooding conditions. Please be aware of your physical limits before attempting to travel to backcountry areas to fish.
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[@WildTroutMan]

Quality footage. Love the opening

[@WoolyBugged]

Thank you Wild Trout Man!

[@BlueLinerMedia]

It’s crazy how clear that water still is even after all the runoff! Awesome footage!

[@WoolyBugged]

Agreed, thanks for the comment!

[@compasspropertiesnow]

Mike, I just found your channel and love it! From start to finish, this was one of the coolest fly fishing videos I have ever seen. Well done!

[@WoolyBugged]

Ed, thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to comment. This day was one of the most interesting ones I've ever had in a drainage in PA.

[@kylelucas3107]

Awesome footage as always!!! 👏 👏

[@WoolyBugged]

Thanks Kyle, appreciate you watching.

[@bruceallen6377]

Very cool! I really enjoy your videos, thanks!

[@WoolyBugged]

Thanks Bruce

[@ianhoose4784]

Wow that’s crazy

[@WoolyBugged]

Thanks Ian, hope you’re well!

[@andrewwebster13]

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man

[@WoolyBugged]

Love this quote Andrew.

[@richstevens5727]

Gorgeous natives. Reminds me of my northern new England fishing trip to NH and VT. I gotta get back out to central PA for some small stream natives!

[@WoolyBugged]

You do!

[@rahnt.5400]

Great video. I love those small brookie streams. I can tell you do also. Now I’m anxious to get back up to my camp in Sullivan county. BTW, I for one appreciate how you handle those fish!

[@WoolyBugged]

Rahn, I treat them like they were my own children!

[@jeffreylea2319]

You made good decisions; I'm at my NH cabin this weekend ( July 18) and hoped to get out on our brookie streams, but we too have had30 hours of torrential rains, water has come way up, and the color is like chocolate milk- such is life! You caught some gorgeous wild trout during the early part of your day, and stayed safe! Win, Win!

[@WoolyBugged]

Agreed Jeff, hopefully all this rain will taper off some and allow for some great fishing into August before the spawn!

[@unclearthur9192]

G'Day, Always enjoy watching your fine quality videos. Lovely looking water and brookies. Our trout streams are closed until early September. There's been some torrential rain and flooding fairly recently. I had a look at the stream that flows at the bottom of my garden and pools are now riffles and riffles are now pools! It will be like fishing a new stream in September. Cheers, Steve.

[@unclearthur9192]

Forgot to write that I'm in Victoria Australia.

[@WoolyBugged]

I'll be curious to hear how you make out in September.

[@WoolyBugged]

Thank you for watching all the way from Australia by the way!

[@ianjones6910]

Another quality video - it was good that y'all got off the water when you did. I just got back from fishing in Colorado, and for the most part, I had nice sunny skies, but the last day, what I thought was a little shower popped up; it eventually turned into quite a heavy downpour, with hail. What I've noticed out West, with that thin air, is that there's no low rumble of thunder - it sounds like a rifle shot.

[@WoolyBugged]

Ya I don’t mess around with lightning. If I hear thunder anywhere close I consider packing it in… at least temporarily.

[@troutmiester7441]

There were some wicked downpours last week. Sunday evening. Monday evening, Tuesday evening, and Friday evening! Not to mention Saturday afternoon!

[@WoolyBugged]

It's like clockwork!

[@Droptineful]

It was nice while it lasted!👍🏻🇺🇸

[@WoolyBugged]

Haha, you take what you’re given!

[@miller17013]

I cant remeber which video it was an im rewatching them now trying to figure it out but one of your videos you fished a nice river that had noce browns an you mentioned that it was a 30 mintue hike into the stream I love fishing alone without crowds so this spunds like a prefect day trip an im trying to remember what the name of the stream was.

[@tonysobina8390]

Great video and a little different from the aspect of high water and how quickly things can change! Beautiful Brookies before the Deluge! I was curious on what kind of snake chaps Jared was wearing? Have you run into many Rattlers in that County?

[@WoolyBugged]

Those gators were made by a company named Everlast and can be found at www.ForEverlast.com.

[@davyjones922]

My wife was up at our camp on little kettle last week same thing, storms all week just blew the streams up instantly.

[@WoolyBugged]

That area continues to get hammered by storms. Just again today big storms went through.

[@paulgostkowski3960]

Yikes! I kept thinking, I hope they found cover on the "escape route to the vehicle" side of the stream.

[@WoolyBugged]

Fortunately we were on the right side of the stream down low where it was dangerous. Once we got up higher in the drainage we were able to cross.

[@johnrossi1702]

Have you ever fished Carbaugh Run in Franklin County ?

[@WoolyBugged]

John, I have fished that stream before, although the day I was there I was following two fishermen so not sure how it fishes "fresh."

[@JP-lw5xs]

Ricketts or Shunk?

[@MrUtfreak]

what kind of insect repellent do you use? I would have thought you would have been devoured during the hike.

[@WoolyBugged]

Joe, I don't use insect repellent at this point. I wear Simms Insect Stopper shirts and in the worst case scenario, I'll break out my Thermacell.

[@WoolyBugged]

@@syntaxiko thank you for the information

[@sakarijukarainen2321]

what kind of gear you use there?

[@WoolyBugged]

Fishing gear?