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Conneaut Creek

Conneaut Creek (/ˈkɑːni.ɔːt/ KAHN-ee-awt) is a 43.5-mile (70.0 km) tributary of Lake Erie flowing from northwestern Pennsylvania through northeastern Ohio in the United States. Via Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, the creek is part of the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. From Wikipedia

Length
43 mi
Basin
152 sq mi
Flows into
Lake Erie

Flow now

Conneaut Creek at Conneaut OH, 3 mi from the river.

40cfsat build, Nov 12, 12 PM MT

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The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 72 cfs to 265 cfs, around 130 cfs.

Also gauged at Brandy Run near Girard, PA: 2 cfs, Nov 12.

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

  • Midgessizes 18 to 22
  • Small eggs and worms
  • Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 72 to 265 cfs. Running 40 cfs today, below that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

  • Flows swing a lot this week most years. Carry both a heavy nymph rig and a dry-dropper and let the gauge decide.
  • Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

Fly shops on this water

  • Chagrin River Outfitters Chagrin FallsWebsite

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Flows from the U.S. Geological Survey, snowpack from the NRCS SNOTEL network, text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Built Nov 12.