Yup, probably was an "American eel". There are a ton of them around here. Never caught one on the fly, but had one demolish a hook when bottom fishing bait for cats once. Was at least 18 inches long, and slimed me up pretty good.
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On Sep 23, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Lane Smith <jlanesmith@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fished Rock creek again yesterday for most of the afternoon. Was
> concentrating on the area just south of the P street bridge. The
> recent rain has changed the structure of the creek tremendously even
> carving out some new pools. I spent most of my time working on one of
> them next to a storm drain run off. As usual, I hooked into a lot of
> bluegill but nothing bigger despite trying all kinds of different
> flies, techniques, and approaches. Saw reasonable sized bass, suckers,
> catfish, and something which I'm not really sure what it was other
> than an 'Eel'? It scared the dickens outta me at first because I
> thought it was a water snake and I wasn't wearing waders. However. It
> moved differently than a snake and had fins along its belly and back.
> Thoughts? Do we have eels around here?
>
> Sep 22, 9:39 am, namfos <mark.sof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After reading this thread, I think I'm going to have to explore Rock Creek
>> upstream of the District Line here in MoCo...
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>> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:26:01 PM UTC-4, Jim wrote:
>>> Anyone else fishing rock creek?
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