{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Crushed the fish on the SF Shenandoah today

Poppers and any small streamers worked (which is all I fish in warm water)......and one of those days where every place you'd scan and think "boy there should be a smallmouth there" had at least one, sometimes a few.  We ran into 2 other guys doing the same float and both were hammering them too, but they were in kayaks and kept getting stuck on rocks ;).  They were also sitting down, legs out front the entire time, since all you can do on a kayak is be miserably uncomfortable.  They did say that the orange color and rad graphics provided the feeling of ocean waves and sharks crashing all around you in the high seas though!  

And yes, I am a bad, bad person!  If I could source a good supply of rotenone or antimycin A and carpet bomb every back eddy and strip the riverbed entirely, I'd eat everything that floated to the surface and then go sleep on the couch (like a baby).  They wouldn't let me be a fisheries biologist because the electroshocking gear got me disturbingly excited.  

Gene    

On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 11:33:30 PM UTC-4, Joe Mathews wrote:

FISH MURDERER!  I've never eaten sunnies.  Are they tasty?

Nice work, and thanks for the report.  I may float the SF or main stem on Sunday. 

On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:48:10 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

Hey -- Beth and I absolutely crushed the smallmouth on the river today......literally from 9:00 to 5:30.  The whole day.  Everywhere.  We didn't get the really big ones, but we got an absurd number of small and medium ones....and of course 6X that in redbreast sunfish (and one catfish, and a monster fallfish).  

We elected to keep a few sunfish -- using the old school scaling method.  I can't wait to eat 'em!  

Most fun I've had in 2015.  If you go out often enough, you hit it right once in a while ;).  

Gene

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