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

I was actually only using my custom-made, 6-foot Carl Z. rod -- with a 5-weight line.  It's a glass spinning blank made into a fly rod.  To be honest with you, I'm not a fan of casting short fly rods (I find it awkward), but they're quite a bit easier to fight/land fish.  (nods to Carl).  I mostly stuck with the little blue Walt popper and had fish all day.  

Beth uses spinning tackle from the canoe as she has a lot more good sense than I do, and says that managing fly line and all that crap while steering a canoe down a river is "too stupid to hassle with" and I don't think she's too far off given that I've gouged 2 fly lines now.  

For anyone else with Dalton's summer vice, a black/silver heddon torpedo in the small size is pretty darn exciting if you're familiar with one and how to work it (walk the dog) and a 1/8 - 1/16 oz mepps with black/gold blade catches everything.  

Gene

On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 8:18:47 AM UTC-4, tatu...@gmail.com wrote:

Nice report Gene and congrats on the great day of fishing.

 

What gear/flies were you so successful with?

 

Cheers

Collin

 

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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