{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Addicted to trout and it's hella cold; what are my best options?

Big Spring in the C&R area is all wild fish.  Brookies and Rainbows and both get very large. Browns have never established a wild population there, or only in very small numbers. None were found in the latest PFBC electroshocking survey.  Don't know if they are still stocked in the lower reaches.  Absolutely a good winter option though. Wish I knew of some other spring fed streams besides Beaver and Big Spring (and letort but that's too tough for me).

Also, you can catch trout below 40 degree water temp, but I would agree it is not much fun. But when you gotta get out, better than nothing!  The key is to go when the water is warming. If it warms from 33 to 35, that will bring a few fish out. Fish during the warmest part of the day on freestone streams. 

I tried to go brookie fishing at a Catoctin Moutain stream a few weeks ago but there was no parking due to snow piles. I ended up going to a mixed brown/brookie water, lucked out and found one spot to squeeze my car over on the shoulder, and caught 2 browns and 2 brookies evenly split between a golden stonefly nymph and olive woolly bugger.  Try dead drifting either next to undercut boulders or logjams in the slowest water you can find, something will dart out eventually.

On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 2:26:48 PM UTC-5, Ashley Frohwein wrote:

I simply must go fishing for trout somewhere within the 1.5 hour drive range this weekend. 

I'm considering fishing passage creek in VA. I know it's a stocker stream, but I checked it out last weekend for the first time (while hiking), and it looks pretty fun and challenging. I figure the cold might keep away the bait chuckers/poachers. It was stocked in mid-December and on January 6. But it's not stream fed, as far as I can tell. Plus, it was running pretty high and dark last weekend, even though there hadn't been much rain, so I'm worried it might be blown out this weekend.

Or, I might just hit up my usual haunt, Beaver Creek, MD. 

Given the cold, could you guys suggest some good, not-too-far-away options? I'm thinking I'm mainly going to be fishing tandem, sub-surface rigs: a small midge below and slightly larger beadhead nymph. 

Maybe the Gunpowder will be fishing well, although I imagine Beaver Creek, MD will be fishing better.

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