The mystery fish's pattern looked similar to the snakehead, but not as "broken" and definitely profiled more like a bass. Maybe my eyes and the water were just playing tricks on me and it was a smallmouth. I forgot to mention I also saw a small Alligator Gar (maybe 18" and no thicker than a water bottle) as well. That was neat, since I've never seen one before.
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:28:57 PM UTC-4, FlyTimesDC wrote:
-- On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:28:57 PM UTC-4, FlyTimesDC wrote:
Sounds like a great fishing trip to me! Solid report as well! The carp and bass have my attention for sure. I am gonna try and get down there next time I have time off from work. Where did you launch from?
As for your river fishing, nothing can make up for experience on the water, but it sounds like you're definitely on the right track! Next time around you'll slay down there for sure! Just got to keep your ear to the ground and keep picking up tips and bits of knowledge from area guides. A fisherman's best friend is confidence and this past trip should give you plenty of it next time around.
Your mystery fish sounds like a snakehead or bowfin. That's the only species I know of with the argyle patterning.
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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