Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} C&O Canal Drained - anyone know if its done for the season?

I walked the stretch from Fletchers down to the foot bridge to cross the canal around 34th st on Saturday afternoon. There's a little more water up towards Fletchers, but only a few places that will hold fish. Even then, your success will be limited because any fish that moves stirs up all the silt and they're super spooky to boot. Up higher, there were lots of school of what I think were gizzard shad, a few nice size LMB, and a handful of carp. I actually stuck what very well may have been my biggest carp to date (pics are still on the DSLR at home), but it's very difficult fishing and with how little water there is, I won't be harassing them again until there's more water. There's more water from Fletchers north, but I didn't walk that stretch.

What I've always wondered is where do the fish go when they do this to the canal? I only saw two dead fish and one fish that was actually still breathing on the mud - which makes me think maybe they were still in the process of draining it. But it was around a mile and a half of water too shallow to support anything more than some baitfish. How do the fish possibly escape from that long of a stretch of water as they drain it? Do they all get pushed up into the section north of Fletcher's that I didn't walk? Are they all pushed in the section right under Wisconsin where I didn't walk? How do they get back in the canal? Carp don't grow fast and there's no shortage of big fish in that section of the canal. 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Clever Knickname <andy.rheuban@gmail.com> wrote:

I went looking for carp in the C&O Canal near Georgetown yesterday afternoon and was disappointed to find it completely drained. 

Anyone know if this is temporary or if its done for the season?Does NPS ever announce that they are doing this anywhere?

Not too many fish, but at least there were some deer living in the canal!

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