Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Is the shad run over?

Steven, My experience the last few Saturdays is that the bite really slows around noon.  The shad have been blasting the flies towards the top pretty consistently during the morning hours, especially on wet days, but move deeper later in the day.  This weekend I switched to some larger flies trying to get on some striper in the afternoon.  Broke off on one, lost two, and finally got one in the boat.  

-Gregg

On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 8:43:41 AM UTC-4, Steven Butler wrote:

Was out Saturday from about noon-4:00, fished the seam outside the dock and upriver a bit with no luck using full sink line (admittedly my first time using a full sink line) with shad fly/clousers changing up depths and retrieve patterns--only two bites. Was I doing something wrong or are the fish farther up toward Chain Bridge at this point? I saw a lot of people fishing farther up, but down where I was nobody was pulling anything in. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:18:31 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

Yep -- another fun day with plenty of shad to go around.  I was glad we made it out there.  I'll probably repurpose the same ff706 soon for bass and bluegill duty.  

And you're modest Jim -- I think you pulled in more today than everyone within eyeshot put together.  No exaggeration.  

You and Ron are extremely courteous anglers and are easy to share a seam with out there -- 

Gene

On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 6:24:06 PM UTC-4, Jim White wrote:

No, the shad run is NOT over! Epic day at Fletcher's Cove today (Saturday). Fished 0600 to 1330. Had to leave when my right arm began to go numb from the endless process of, cast-hook up-strip in-boat fish-remove hook-toss fish back- repeat. Only my third time fishing the Potomac shad run but it certainly lived up to the stories I'd heard. Thanks again to Gene for sharing a current seam and leaving some fish for Ron and me (Gene and Beth caught far more than we did - we convinced ourselves there is magic in those fiberglass rods!). 

A fabulous day on the river!

Cheers all,

Jim

On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 10:02:30 AM UTC-4, Charlie Church wrote:

Was also out on Thursday. There were a decent amount of hickories and some americans as well. A lot more stripers than expected too. 

Hope you get into them today.

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