{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Rapidan WMA / Rose River / White Oak Canyon

Beth and I fished the "larger" or those streams today from 7:00 to 1:19 and saw not one other person the entire time....not even on the way out, which is unusual on such a nice Saturday.  

I like frog's fanny quite a bit for CDC -- I have a before and after picture.  I think it beats the "kitchen roll" as the British say (paper towel).  I got 24 fish on that fly before "retiring" in into a tree.  CDC and Elk worked great too -- but nothing on those foam beetles yet.  That should be soon.  

I used to not fish that fly on rough water too much because it's so easy to sink CDC, but with frog's fanny I may have to add it in a lot more -- I think it gives a better impression based upon the action.  My gut is that it's mostly just the handy brush under the lid, but meh.  

At 1:19 my rice krispie bar wore off and we had reached the upper section and decided to call it a day.  

Oh, and I don't know that mayfly, but it's a pretty one.  Lots of midges flying into my nose and ears all day -- but good fishing trumps that annoyance ;).  

The Rapidan has several good "worn" campsites that get frequent use.  Most of them are very obvious as you drive up the road -- and our experience is that if you arrive Friday morning or afternoon, there's often few people there and virtually no one setting up camp yet.  

Gene

On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 4:43:05 PM UTC-4, Gs Feder wrote:

I'm thinking about an overnight trip the weekend of 6/12 -14, hitting the Rapidan and camping in the WMA overnight (they seem to allow "primitive camping" and open fires), and then the Rose and/or White Oak Canyon the next day before returning to Arlington.  I'm not much of a back country camper, but I've car camped before and this plan would let me do that.  I have a Nissan Frontier 2wd that  sucessfully navigated the road along the Rapidan in the past, so I'm not worried about that.  Any tips?  Anyone interested in joining?

 

Cheers,

 

-- Greg

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