Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} BIGGIE SMALLS!!!

Some good looking smallmouth you got there. Where in VA were you guys fishing?

On Aug 1, 2014 2:31 AM, "Daniel Davala" <daniel.davala@gmail.com> wrote:

I wrote up this trip report for the Orvis blog but wanted to post it here first.  Trent Jones and I got out on Wednesday with our good friend and Guide Matt Miles to go after some VA Smallmouth.  We decided early on to stick with topwater all day and bring them to the surface rather than switching up tactics and going for numbers. 

If you haven't watched a big Smallie rise and slowly slip a dead drifted slider you are missing out!  The intensity of that moment when they decide to eat or not to eat rivals anything you could ever see on a Trout stream.  And the fight that ensues immediately thereafter is one of the best fixes you can get in freshwater.

We put in a good long day, covering about 9 miles of gorgeous VA warm water.  And while we stayed in the boat for most of the trip, at one point I just couldn't resist hopping out to go one on one with a good fish we had seen break in a nice long riffle.  It took a dozen casts or so but she finally crushed it and was all mine. 

By far and away though, the highlight of the trip was watching one of my best friends get his personal best smallmouth, a fish that taped out at just over 21 inches.  That fish sipped the fly so delicately, then went completely ballistic, coming out of the water multiple times with one ridiculous leap of over 4 feet above the surface.  Yes, that happened!  Way to go Trent!!!

Big thanks to Matt Miles for putting us on some awesome fish, and for a great time on the river as always.  We're already looking forward to the next trip! 

Dan Davala

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