Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: nearby trout

The quality of the advice here is great.  I was just going to tack onto some of the others here that fishing the SNP has really helped my (our) dry fly fishing skill.  You can watch youtube videos of people making long casts with dries across stupid-easy, even currents and it's all well and good, and then go to SNP and have so many cross currents that you couldn't make any cast without getting drag in literally 1-2 seconds, showing you that you must wade into the right position to make a decent cast (often at very short distance) vs. ripping out a long cast or double hauling like a jerk, which isn't effective. You also learn how to not sink your dry fly during pick up, how to bushwhack, how to reach over currents, how to make a parachute cast, etc.  We've spent a LOT of time in the SNP this year and have really enjoyed it.  There's no point in talking about specific streams - they're all good and have fish willing to teach you how to catch them.  You also don't generally need to focus so much on your pattern, but just on your presentation....well, it's always important to have a good presentation obviously, but brook trout seem to be less selective with bugs than rainbow trout on the Elk River, WV for example.  

Of course, you can then go to the Potomac where 50'+ casts and double hauling like a jerk are highly effective....and you'll seldom ever use a slack-line cast or mend (at least not where I generally go).  This region paralyzes you with variety!  

Darn the white perch - they seem more annoying this year than before.  I'm tired of knocking those things off...

Gene

On Sunday, June 15, 2014 3:33:22 PM UTC-4, Jeff Tranguch wrote:

Thanks all for the input. This is all extremely helpful.

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