{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Hemlock Overlook outing earlier today

Oh, we lived in Springfield, MO for about 5 years during school.  My folks are up near Salem, MO if you know the area.  It's pretty near to Rolla.  

Her folks live up North in the Troy area (1.5 hours North of St. Louis).  We've spent time in nearly every county in the state, either hiking, seining fish and macroinvertebrates, or hunting in her case.  

On Friday, September 21, 2012 8:14:28 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

Hi - much thanks to all of you who made suggestions about fishing the river here.  My wife and I were off today and decided to fish for a few hours here.  Man, Clifton, VA is a little neat town there!  It reminded me of livign in rural Missouri again ;).  But man, some of those gated homes out there were really ghetto.  I was expecting, like 8 million dollar homes...and none of these were probably over 6.5 million or so.  I kept looking over my shoulder expecting to be sold a time-share at any moment.   Lucky I remembered to bring my trusty "board with a nail in it" in case I was approached by any thugs out there.  I have soem extra boards that I'll send you if you want, but you have to supply your own nails. 

 

Anyway, we didn't hit the river until about 11:00, but we fished from then until about 5:00 pm.  I used one of those blue poppers (boogle bug) with the flat face, I think a #8.  I could barely keep the bluegill off of it and honestly I wasn't even doing much actual "popping".  They'd hit it on a drift, on a swing, popping, etc.  It was fun.  I moved up to another boogle bug, this time a black #6...hoping to pick up a bass and avoid smaller gills.  I ended up catching more gills with it ;)...that's okay though. 

 

My wife started with a white clouser and didn't get hit in the riffles, downstream from the riffles, around rocks, etc.  She switched to a green damsel nymph and got the only bass of the day (small one) and several bluegill also ;).  I also tied a yellow rubber spider (bully spider) and got some gills on it too.  They seem to like just about anything.I

 

Water was a bit tinged from the rain earlier this week.  Very, very nice weather.  New waders didn't leak! 

 

All said, that's a really nice stream fairly close to home that we'll hit again for sure.  Anyone know what the cannon fire was that we kept hearing? 

 

Oh, also there was a middle-aged couple sitting there making out on a large rock while we worked upstream.  So apparently this river is a hot spot to renew interest in your spouse!  I've always liked my wife in a set of breathable waders....so maybe they're on to something. 

 

Thanks guys,

 

Gene

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