Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: targeting the crashing catfish

Baboom on the shad jig

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On Apr 25, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Hugh Fike <hughfike@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for that!

I was out there for 4 hours yesterday and was stunned by the number of them jumping for such a sustained period of time. 

On Monday, April 25, 2016, Matt Brennan <matty.brennan@gmail.com> wrote:

I took a video of the quillback popping the surface. A lot of activity, and it was even heavier around sunset. Amazing how many there must be in there! 

https://youtu.be/s3QNkglG85s 

I've seen some advice (http://www.roughfish.com/content/fishing-carpsuckers-quillback-river-and-highfin) on catching them, but all focused on them doing their normal bottom-feeding thing. Nothing explaining why they're coming up to the surface or how to catch them there. Unfortunately, nothing really optimistic about catching them in general.

~Matt

On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 7:53:39 PM UTC-4, Regan Burmeister wrote:

So last year and this year, while swinging flies with my two-hand rod for shad, the fish crashing the surface around and above Fletcher's have me wondering.

The guys at the boathouse say they are catfish.

Has anyone been able to successfully target these fish on the fly?  If so, what was the pattern(s)?

Are these fish feeding? Attacking some small prey fish? Or just doing a fish thing we folk don't understand?

It looks like it would be wonderful fun to hook into one these, especially the very large ones I have occasionally seen.

Thanks, Regan

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