![]() The water is shallow after months of drought, but moss-covered rocks, duck weed and sphagnum moss abound. The trail is open, easy for the first half mile, and hugs the creek. Hard to say which of us was more surprised. There is still plenty to see, as well: As I admire mats of watercress and forget-me-not, a great blue heron flies by - all legs and deep wingbeats, its ancient reptilian eyes on a level with mine. It’s a cool, late-fall day and the air is full of murmuring, gurgling sounds of water. Ben leaves me at the trailhead, and I head downstream. That’s why PFA has privately protected the land along a 12-mile stretch of McMichael Creek with a permanent agreement held by Pocono Heritage Land Trust. That’s where I’m headed, to meet Ben Turpin, stream manager for PFA.īen says that, like other fishing clubs in the Poconos, members of Pohoqualine (the name means “river between two mountains”) are committed to protecting the cold, pure water that trout need to survive and thrive. A group of avid flyfishers who regularly stayed at the hotel, decided one day in 1894 to establish themselves as the Pohoqualine Fish Association, and later bought the building. Where the McMichael begins stands a three-story historic building, once a hotel and stagecoach stop. Tumbling downhill through mixed hardwood forest, the three creeks meet near Hypsy Gap Road and Route 715 in Chestnuthill Township. As the water bubbles free at the steep edge of the plateau, it creates cold, fast-flowing creeks - among them Hypsy, Bowers and Fall creeks. High on Pocono Plateau, rainwater and snowmelt are captured and held in spongy swamps and bogs.
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