Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} James River Float

Nice fish Jeff -- I think you made the best strategic decision possible with the low water all around here.  

Beth and I made an alternate decision over the weekend with the low water and also for this coming weekend (it's nice to be off every Friday) -- not as cool as big smallies on a float, but I'll do a report anyway next weekend.  

Big smallmouth are beautiful to look at....or at which to look, whatever.  Thanks for posting -- 

Gene

On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 7:55:06 AM UTC-4, Dan Davala - Founder/President wrote:

Awesome report Jeff, and AWESOME FISH!!!  Cameron A. and I are floating with Matt tomorrow, so needless to say I am pretty fired up.  Whoever hasn't floated the James with Matt Miles should put it on their very short list of things to do.  It's easily as good as any float trip anywhere and better than many.

I'll be sure to post a few pics and a report on Wednesday.

Dan Davala

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Jeffrey Silvan <jeffre...@gmail.com> wrote:

I went out with Matt Miles this past Saturday and did a float on the James. It was by far the best trip I've ever done. I caught so many big fish, we stopped measuring and counting. I'm guessing we had at least ten 16" or greater smallies, with most of them being 17-18", a couple at 19" and my personal best (and the second fish of the day), a solid 20" smallie in the picture. The 20-incher was fat as all heck too. I had one more that might have pushed the 20" mark, but it evaded the net, got under the boat, and broke me off. All the fish came from up top. Huge difference from the Shenandoah, where the small fish of this trip (12/13") were bigger than big fish on my last float on the Doah. I also got a nice sized spotted bass and we saw some big gar and one massive catfish. Best of all, I brought my wife and Matt got her casting like a pro. I learned all I need to do on this trips is bring her a case of beer and she'll be perfectly content taking in the sun and casting for 20 minutes every couple hours.

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