Paul the Fishing may have been a little rough because the water temp was up there-the bass stayed deep until the water temp was more comfortable. The best thing to do if your fishing from shore is look for minnows or bluegills, if you see them shallow then the bass will most likely be shallow, you can usually get them to come up by throwing some cracker crumbs in the water or you can take a thermometer and measure the water temp like the trout boys. If you don't see minnows or bluegills shallow fan cast and cast in the corners and up under the bridge. The warm temp makes it so you have to slow down your retrieve I don't care what some guy told you in the Fly Fisherman magazine but your not going to have a bass or snakehead chase down a fast moving fly when the water temp is high. The flies that slayed them over the years in the chanel and tidal basin for me where black sponge spiders make sure the legs aren't to long over 1/2 inch-chart/white clousers with some flash in them size #2 or #4- bluegill size poppers in a chart/black and chart/white-beadhead nymph- black wooly buggers. The spot where the tree limb comes down almost to the water is the prime spot but don't beat it to death fish it 20 minutes and move up the wall them work your way back.
On Monday, July 30, 2012 4:02:22 PM UTC-4, Paul Kalajainen wrote:
I went over to the Tidal Basin on Friday evening about 6:45-8:45. It was pretty close to dark by the time I left, maybe the prime time would have been a little later, but I didn't get anything. I walked up and down the wall from the bridge to the FDR memorial casting basically parallel to the wall and stripping the line in from there. I used a variety of colors of woolly buggers - no luck. Any specific places along the wall where the fish like to hang out?
-Paul
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