Brodhead Creek

The birthplace of American fly fishing and the spiritual home of the eastern Pocono fly fishing tradition. Brodhead Creek flows 22 miles down the eastern slope of the Poconos through Stroudsburg to the Delaware River, with cold tributaries from the Pocono plateau keeping the creek productive year-round. The Henryville House on the upper Brodhead — visited by Theodore Gordon, Edward Hewitt, George LaBranche, and a generation of American fly fishing pioneers in the late 1800s and early 1900s — was the cradle of American dry fly fishing alongside the Catskills.