Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Rock Creek near Tilden

Lots of eels. They seriously freak me out. I remember seeing a ton of
3-inch eels climbing the cliffs in the creek that dumps into the Potomac
on the VA side of Chain Bridge.




On 9/23/12 9:43 AM, "Longley" <matthew.longley@gmail.com> wrote:

>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:
>
>>
>> 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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