Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Setting up first trip to Harpers Ferry

Richard,

I am not totally familiar with the area you are floating, but have fished at Brunswick once. I think I tend to only grab a sinking line for water that isn't wadeable, not sure if there are deeper, flatter spots along the float where you will consistently want your fly more than 3-4 ft deep.

For the wooly buggers, like Carl I prefer a cone head. Fishing these, I like short, quick strips and twitches/pops of the rod. For the poppers, I almost always fish these with a dead drift rather than popping them.

Dalton

On Sunday, August 12, 2012 9:38:59 PM UTC-4, Carl wrote:

On 08/12/2012 09:25 PM, Richard Lin wrote:

Aaron,

 

How was the trip? Hope you had great time there? My friend and I with our teen sons are planning canoe camping from Brunswick to white ferry this weekend – will stop somewhere in the middle for overnight. We are planning to stop some spots and fishing there. I understand that Dalton suggested not to bring sink lines,

Sinking lines will just get in the way.  9' leaders which come down to no more than 3x would be good.  I stay at 8lb mono for my tippet/leader.

I will just bring float lines and poppers and woolly buggers, maybe hellgrammite – I was told by spinning fishermen – bass love hellgrammite in upper Potomac river.

Dalton – woodlly buggers – with or without cone head weight?

Black conehead woolly buggers are a good hellgrammite imitation.
Poppers and sliders are good,
Shenk's streamers, or Shannon's streamer or white Clouser would all be good (white).
A white conehead woolybugger would probably also behave just the same.

 

Anyone who know some tips or flies on this upper river would be great – thanks!

And I don't really call this the upper potomac.  I usually think of the Upper Potomac as Hancock and above (where trout might live).  Is this the Middle Potomac?

Good luck and have fun with your son. 

Carl

 

Richard

 

From: tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aaron O
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:12 AM
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Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Setting up first trip to Harpers Ferry

 

Thanks Dalton,   I will leave the sinking line at home and will look into the reciprocity.

 

 

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