I was wading Matthew. Your question about wading and the snakehead comment jogged my memory about something else. Anyone ever wade along the shallow really muddy parts on the south side of 4MR with the plant vegetation growing out of the water? Whenever I do there's inevitably a bunch of commotion along the grass. I imagine there are catfish back in there, but what about snakeheads? I've heard the love really shallow water.
Darin, if you search topics above within the forum for 4 Mile Run, there's years worth of info in here. However, I park at the 4 Mile Run parking lot right by Mt Vernon bridge and wade downstream to where the water treatment plan discharges into the stream. You have to wade through some pretty nasty pluff mud to do it, but I like to be thorough. Alternatively, I think if you walk east from that parking lot down the service street, you can wade in a bit closer to the discharge. Again, pluff mud so be careful, but it's not as bad as my normal wade in point up stream.
The mouth didn't extend very much further than what you see on that bass so I just assumed it was a smallie. He's a lil grimy cause I dropped him on the ground :(
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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