Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Camping Moorman's River

where you in the park on the north or south fork, or were you along sugar hollow road?

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Forrest Allen <gforrest.allen@gmail.com> wrote:

For future readers on the Moorman's River

You are almost guaranteed to get fish rising this time of year right where you'd expect they'd be on this river. However, it is pretty tight casting in some places. Casting low and sidearmed straight up and down the river was necessary for a few good holes. I caught a handful of fish in the time I was out there before the storms rolled in, and I scrapped the camping plans alltogether for a few reasons. The fish were standard size for a small river, but I did spook/interest a few bigger guys. They were very aggressive, so dry flies were a lot of fun. I mostly had success with the Elk Hair Caddis, Adams Wulff and Adams Parachutes. The chubs were annoyingly active too (can anyone identify the fish with the red strip on the belly that hit my fly? Just some type of carp?)

As for access to the stream, its about as easy as it gets for the parking area. Paved almost the entire way, and any type of car could get there. I caught a brookie not more than 100 yards from the first parking lot (probably could have gotten one closer, but there were people stomping through the creek). However, finding space to park was terrible - the place was packed and the trail was crawling with humans! I kind of expected this, but hoped for better. The access road to the second parking lot was closed, but there was only one hairy section on it that I'd be concerned about if you didnt have high clearance. 2WD could likely make it fine in dry conditions. There are some good camping pulloffs before that second parking area, but it is so well traveled, I wouldnt want to bother - especially since they have fire regulations. The first lot does say no overnight parking, but I dont know what the punishment would be for doing so. 

 All in all - I probably wont go back to this river unless its winter time. Despite the easy access, I cant stand having to skip a good hole because there's someone walking through it or sitting on the bank right next to it. That being said, I did not hike very far up the stream - the heat and humidity that led up to the storms kept me and my gal from going too far. At the very least, its always good to check off a new stream, and the beauty of Shenandoah never disappoints. 

Hope a future reader finds this useful! Thanks again for the previous advice, Joe and Andy! 

Forrest

--
http://www.tpfr.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/00bab802-09ae-453d-b9ea-0c9a7394485d%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
http://www.tpfr.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/CACucFBAqyH_PQ9L5pCyWD7J5cgc1w%3Djn3B6o-855EP7UcriXpg%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.