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

Danny: I am sure that is hyperbole, but if the landowner has a legitimate claim (many believe they do but cannot prove it), you could be in a lot of trouble. As recently as March of this year, a fly angler racked up over $100,000 in legal fees trying (unsuccessfully) to fight a number of civil trespassing lawsuits for being in land grant water. Some landowners can get hostile. Back in high school in my whitewater-running days, we ran Bottom Creek (another infamous King's Land Grant issue that American Whitewater has battled for probably 20 years) during a flood and had a a guy firing warning shots into the air and threatening to kill us if we ever ran it again (of course, we did, but never saw him again). 

Gene: Hidden Valley is a good spot. People hate on it because it isn't easy, walk-up fishing like the tailwater (which can be like shooting fish in a barrel many days), but without spot burning some other places, that's one of your best bets to find the big girls in the fall. It takes more persistence and is still fairly popular because of the bigger fish and the better challenge. Still not as popular as the tailwater, but in fishing the tailwater on at least 100 different occasions, I've seen at most 6-8 other anglers on the section and 90% of the time you'll have the whole place to yourself. 

Brendan: Yes, do not drag an anchor, do not cast a line. You can probably float through those sections just fine as long as you stay in your boat, don't anchor, and don't fish, but I wouldn't test it but I am a wimp and definitely not a rule-breaker any more (and barely a rule-bender at that). People making any sort of claim with any inclination to enforce it will post LOTS and LOTS of signs on the bank - there's no doubt when you enter one of these sections. 

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