{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Brookies (or the lack thereof) at the Rapidan River

How about just leaving them alone?  

On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 8:36:50 PM UTC-4, Andrew Chaney wrote:

After getting skunked at the mid-section of the Rapidan several weeks ago, I decided to hit up the lower portion this afternoon (just north of Graves Mill). The fallfish bite was aggressive. In about an hour of fishing, I caught about a dozen ranging from 6" - 12". However, I saw something concerning that I thought I'd run by here.

In one pool, I saw dozens of fish, about half fallfish, 1/3 brook trout, and the rest miscellaneous. The brook trout were decently sized and they were very sluggish. They just stuck to the bottom of the pool and didn't react to anything. I dropped woolly buggers, prince nymphs, and hare's ear nymphs right in front of their noses and got nothing. At one point, a hare's ear brushed over the back of one of them and it hardly reacted. At another point, I hooked into a 12" fallfish and it darted all over the pool. Again, the brookies barely moved. 

So, is this normal behavior for brook trout? Other than their extreme stoicism, there didn't seem to be anything wrong. Is it a late summer temperature thing or something else?

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