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Sunday, 28 July 2013

{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Redfish -- puppy picture

Hello -- here's a few pics from our weekend trip. This is the hardest-fought fish I've ever caught in my life. I'll never forget him. We had a great time -- I wish we could have landed more fish, but to be perfect honest my skill level was pretty inadequate. Sight casting to tailing fish is a blast -- we had a lot of shots and we both spooked many of them. Most of our problems were 1. Not being able to get a fly to a fish quickly enough. 2. Not placing the fly in the right spot -- either too far to be seen by the fish, or lining a few, etc. 3. Shocking the rod by failing to get the fly to leave the water surface prior to hauling on the backcast. Likely I've been able to get away with it up to this point using lighter flies, but a 10' leader and large, lead-eye flies revealed our "suck". Lesson: Learn the quick cast a la Bruce Chard, and practice on the water with a 10' leader and heavy flies. I'm going to drop every other rod and just work with my 8-weight.

Our guide was excellent -- and had a great interest in birding, so we got to do some of this waiting for the tide to change mid-day. This is very unique and we marked several new birds during the day.

Oh, and Beth had one -- fly in the mouth -- but she set the hook "rod up" style (bass fishing) and *poof* -- lots of bad language, and fish was off like a torpedo.

Bonefish might be my next ambition -- need to get down to the Keys and find a good spot ;).

Gene

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{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Fishing the Niger River - yeah, the one in West Africa

My first day in Mali. For $1.00 I hired an couple of kids and a dugout canoe to take me to a fishing spot. The bigger fish are probably in the deeper channels of the river, but the river was moving pretty fast and I was afraid we might either end up in the river or aimlessly floating to Timbuktu....which is 3 days down stream. My wife calls this size fish, cracker fish. I call them bait.

Hopefully, I will get a chance to go again. If I catch something bigger, I will post it here.

-Luke

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Saturday, 27 July 2013

{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: The Confluence

Aden, you planning on fishing outside of Ghent, Belgium? That's where your maps link goes - a little far to go for post fishing beer! ;-)

Mark

On Friday, July 26, 2013 11:55:54 PM UTC-4, Aden wrote:

I have to give a big thank you to Steve Moore for the Switch fisher books. Without his exploring and publishing I would know much less about virginia waters. And yes, I found this spot with his book mentioned above. Follow his directions to a T. They are very accurate.
here is a link to the parking spot. http://goo.gl/maps/SQDZ
This is not a hard but it isn't like parking at lock 7 and walkng the CandO to Chain Bridge. You take the interstate, to the state highway, to the 2 lane road to the dirt road to a foot path. The dirt road just stops and that is where you park. Follow the foot path (it is a real, well maintained path) until you reach the end, which is a camp ground. The fishing wasn't as good today but that was becuase I snapped my 4wt in half being careless. Still managed about 30 fish. Half smallies and half sunfish. gorgeous day

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Friday, 26 July 2013

{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: The Confluence

I have to give a big thank you to Steve Moore for the Switch fisher books. Without his exploring and publishing I would know much less about virginia waters. And yes, I found this spot with his book mentioned above. Follow his directions to a T. They are very accurate.

here is a link to the parking spot. http://goo.gl/maps/SQDZ

This is not a hard but it isn't like parking at lock 7 and walkng the CandO to Chain Bridge. You take the interstate, to the state highway, to the 2 lane road to the dirt road to a foot path. The dirt road just stops and that is where you park. Follow the foot path (it is a real, well maintained path) until you reach the end, which is a camp ground. The fishing wasn't as good today but that was becuase I snapped my 4wt in half being careless. Still managed about 30 fish. Half smallies and half sunfish. gorgeous day

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{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} CCA Red Drum/Speckled Trout Tournament

CCA Maryland is hosting a red drum/speckled trout tournament - http://www.ccamd.org/?p=1814

Kayak and fly categories. Should be a great time. It is a haul from here, but there are rooms local.

Any questions, let me know.

Brad

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{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Gunpowder or Mossy?

Are you fishing below the pretty boy reservoir? I've gone hiking well south of that (south of Rt 1, below Loch Raven) and the water looked great, but I don't know if anyone fishes that.

On Friday, July 26, 2013 2:28:06 PM UTC-4, Chuq Yang wrote:

I've never been to Mossy, but I was on the Gunpowder yesterday at Masemore. I caught an 8" brookie and a brown (I'm still pretty new) and one fallfish. The water felt really nice and cool through my waders. The folks at Backwater Angler in Monkton told me that small green hoppers and foam beetles worked the best, I lost both beetles to trout because I stupidly was using a pretty tattered 6x tippet.

I switched that out and then hooked into a beautiful 14" brown with the hopper and it did a couple of beautiful jumps before I brought her to net. Another guy I talked to said he caught a half dozen on a 16 caddis, all on the surface.

Super easy wading, although the trails are becoming a little harder to keep track of. The raspberries on both sides make the hike a little better though.

Chuq

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:53:09 AM UTC-4, FlyFishinRealtor wrote:
I'm with Rob on Mossy. Great fishing and the shop folks are awesome. It is a hike though.

On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:00:54 PM UTC-4, Bryce Comstock wrote:
I was planning in going to one this weekend. I have gone to the gun powder a few times and have had success, but I have never tried Mossy Creek. Which would dc folks here prefer? Thanks for the help.

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{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Gunpowder or Mossy?

I've never been to Mossy, but I was on the Gunpowder yesterday at Masemore. I caught an 8" brookie and a brown (I'm still pretty new) and one fallfish. The water felt really nice and cool through my waders. The folks at Backwater Angler in Monkton told me that small green hoppers and foam beetles worked the best, I lost both beetles to trout because I stupidly was using a pretty tattered 6x tippet.

I switched that out and then hooked into a beautiful 14" brown with the hopper and it did a couple of beautiful jumps before I brought her to net. Another guy I talked to said he caught a half dozen on a 16 caddis, all on the surface.

Super easy wading, although the trails are becoming a little harder to keep track of. The raspberries on both sides make the hike a little better though.

Chuq

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:53:09 AM UTC-4, FlyFishinRealtor wrote:

I'm with Rob on Mossy. Great fishing and the shop folks are awesome. It is a hike though.

On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:00:54 PM UTC-4, Bryce Comstock wrote:
I was planning in going to one this weekend. I have gone to the gun powder a few times and have had success, but I have never tried Mossy Creek. Which would dc folks here prefer? Thanks for the help.

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