Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: 4 Mile Run Triumph

The photo looks like an LM.  The visible lateral line and white belly are Large Mouth markings.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:04 AM, TurbineBlade <doublebclan@gmail.com> wrote:

Is that a smallmouth?  It almost looks hybridish.....nice fish regardless!  Well done! 

 

I need to hit 4MR sometime....

 

Gene

On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:02:41 AM UTC-4, Lane Smith wrote:

Went out to 4 Mile Run this evening and managed several firsts. Until today, I've caught only bluegill in there. After trying poppers, clousers, wooly buggers, crayfish, terrestrials, minnows, etc. (and with all kinds of presentation), I tried nymphing; right on tap of the discharge. It worked a LOT. The nymphs I used were size 12-14's I think but with a heavier bead, white aentennae, black and dark red thorax segments. Perhaps they're meant to be a small crayfish? Not sure. They're awesome. I included pictures of my first ever catfish on fly (took 10 minutes to land, what a fight) and my first 4 mile smallie. I'm ecstatic I found something that worked.

 

Early in the afternoon when I reached the discharge, I witnessed something massive and dark doing something right in the middle of the discharge where the flow is probably strongest. About a 1/3 of its body (the back end) was just kinda hanging out above the surface when BOOM, a bit more scissored out of the water and slashed forward in (I can only assume) an attack, which sent hundreds of shad(?) swimming towards me up stream. It did this for a minute or two and then kinda loafed back into the flow and disappeared gradually. I've never seen anything like it in real life. The tail was definitively snakesnakehead but the sheer size of this thing ... man. So of course I slapped on the biggest deceiver pattern I had and cast into and around the discharge. Nothing came of it until I just let my deceiver pattern roll on the discharge while I considered around in my fly box for what I'd try next. Low and behold I kinda look up and there, about 2 feet behind and deeper than my fly (which almost had drifted back to me by this point), was a rather large head. I thought I was staring at an anaconda for a moment. I kind of freaked out rushed back a bit. Unpreturbed, what turned out to be a fish nonchalantly looked at me for a beat and then kinda reblended into the depths below the foam or whatever it is which the discharge creates.

 

My first thought was I'd just seen the same enormous snakehead close up. Thinking back though, I'm not sure. My sense was that the head connected into a bulkier body than a snakehead typically has. I think it might have been an enormous largemouth. Maybe over 10lbs. I lack the expertise to hazard a reasonable guess. Thoughts?

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