Just thought I'd pop my head into the conversation since I know you. Let me know if you ever wanna try around the Potomac or in Rock Creek. I caught my first smallmouth in Rock Creek this morning around 7:30AM! Nice fish.
On Monday, August 6, 2012 1:28:18 PM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:
I took my girlfriend out to the Rappahannock on Saturday per the advice of Miles at the Clarendon Orvis. The water was very low, so the river was very slow moving and canoeing was a bit tough in some places. We caught a couple small smallmouths and tons of sunfish. A few sunnies were decent size - close to 10 inches - and all were by far the fiestiest sunfish I've ever caught. It might sound like the fishing was slow, but more was my experience level rather than fishing quality. I saw plenty of smallmouth and largemouth, many in the 16-18 inch range. I even saw one largemouth that must have been 22" plus. Unfortunately, I severely lack river fishing skills since I grew up fishing either lakes or the ocean. With most of the fish I saw, I had already scared away before I could even cast to them. Everything we caught came on either an orange or a yellow boogle bug except for one on a beadhead wooly bugger. We tried a blue one, but the dreaded tree fish broke it off on the first cast. I know the boogle bug isn't a dragonfly imitation, but I have a feeling blue may have worked even better since there were blue dragonflies everywhere. My lesson learned is keep one rod rigged with a popper and the other rigged with a sinking/sink tip line and subsurface fly for easy and quick changes to fish the deep holes when we came across them. I got kind of lazy and never fished a subsurface fly after the first 30 minutes...--A few interesting sightings:1. A bald eagle took off within 15 minutes of launching.2. There were carp all over the place. I even saw a pair cruising through a deep hole that must have been 30 inches each, minumum. The carp were ignoring crayfish imitations and wooly buggers in the beginning. Any thoughts what else I can throw that they might take?3. I saw a bass that had a pattern unlike anything I have seen before. It had fairly distinct diamond patterns on its side - it looked similar to the pattern of an argyle sweater. It may not have been a bass, but sure had that shape. Any ideas what species it may have been?Jeff
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