I did end up going to Gravely Point despite the tidal situation, mostly because I was really set on getting a lay of the place. I've biked through there a million times and never even considered fishing it, so I was really curious. On the ride down the Mt Vernon trail, the river looked as low as I've ever seen it... There was a mud ring around Roose Island 20 feet wide, not a good sign. But I pedaled on, locked my bike up (watching out for the teenage girl larceny ring), geared up and went straight for the dock I saw on google maps. Figured it would give me casting room and some access to deeper water. Then I saw the "no fishing from the dock/ramp" sign, and there goes that.
I spent about an hour moving around the shore to the left and right of the dock, and then down to the river proper closer to the mt vernon trail, before finally settling in at a shore spot about 50 yards to the right of the dock. I tried to check out the duck pond, but that required a game of frogger I wasn't quite up for... Guess I have to find another way for next time. The spot to the right of the dock was comfortable though, and I could side cast out a good deal of line and whip it backwards into the current, which would take my fly pretty much anywhere I wanted it to go. Put 10 minutes into a chartuese size 2 clouser, but wasn't getting any action, so figuring the big fish might be elsewhere in deeper water, I tied on a hopper with a relatively large nymph trailer and casted upstream to let it run down the current. Caught one mystery fish on the nymph, but I lost it in the wall of growth that lines the shallows there. A few casts later something took the hopper, and being careful to move it up and around the growth, I landed it. Small (~8 inches) but really good looking perch. The nymph came off in the process of unhooking it, but there was a bit of surface activity and I didn't want to waste time so I got the hopper back out there and soon enough landed a largemouth bass, though not a big one (8-9 inches).
Pretty sure there was a snakehead playing around me as the lights went out, something was occasionally making a whole lot of surface noise. I made a few passes with a popper, and had two missed but big strikes (hallmark of the snakehead?) but eventually it got too dark and I packed it in.
Thanks for all the tips, looking forward to getting back out there under a better tidal condition.
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