{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Schoolie stripers?

Or....you could drop a canoe into the SF shenandoah and catch the 70+ smallmouth bass we just caught with the Missouri family in town ;).  It's ever-so-slightly-murky, but fishing great.  

The real secret about the gunpowder is that there are "500 fish per square foot" or whatever, meaning your life is pointless and you should probably do something else if you cannot catch at least 40 trout every trip out there.  They are everywhere in there!  If you slip and fall wading there and don't have a belt on, you'll literally have 6-7 trout down your pants when you stand up...and also some did-e-moe and probably at least one other angler to dig out.   

Sorry - I don't know anything about striped bass.  

Gene ("Never be a Pretty Boy") TurbineBlade

On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 4:21:46 PM UTC-4, Miguel Cuunjieng wrote:

Also, just for those who may be curious, a recent trip to the gunpowder proved quite rewarding for those seeking for technical dry fly fishing. While we didn't catch the 18incher recently posted on the backwaterangler web page, we caught a number of trout in the 5-11 inch range that were beautiful as ever. The reward was simply getting a tight line after successful presentations (mandatory reach casts and downstream presented sulphurs in sizes 16-18). The hatch peaked from about 2:30 to 5:30 but wasn't incredibly thick. Trout were keying on sulphurs and egg laying caddis skittering across the top to their doom in the flat water immediately following decent riffle water (made more stretch and York road access). One the hatch died down, swinging partridge and orange and sulphur soft hackles worked as well with one tiny shot 18" above the first fly. Tight lines everyone!

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