{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Fishing prompt: Is the Letort as difficult to fish as it's reputed to be? What makes it so hard?

And on the off chance you get lucky enough to hook one of the big ones that love the the #22 midges, it's nearly impossible to land an 18" wild fish on 6x with all the grass beds and brush piles in the stream. 

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:05:48 AM UTC-4, Misha Gill wrote:

Someone posted this question to the r/flyfishing subreddit the other day and I responded. Thought you guys might be interested in what I had to say. 


My response:
"Well first it's like fishing in an aquarium because the water is so clear, so you have to be very stealthy. Second, the stream bottom is a layer of fine silt in which you will sink to your knees if you try to wade. Like in any stream, the best fish lie in inaccessible spots, and on the Letort you have a much tougher time adjusting your position to make a cast. Third, the abundance of hatches has dropped off dramatically in the past fifty years. The only hatches are midges, BWOs, and sulphurs. The sulphurs are strange though bc the hatch will be happening, and adults will be drifting along on the surface, but the fish won't eat them. There is so much food in the stream anyways though that it doesn't matter, the fish get big eating cress bugs and shrimp.

Your best chance for catching a fish on top is with terrestrial, which stay around until the first hard freeze. When I went recently I had luck with an unweighted no indicator dual nymph rig. Make your top nymph a visible attractor pattern and your bottom nymph more realistic, like a sparse pheasant tail. Track your flies by keeping an eye on the visible attractor nymph. Use a long fine leader."

The attached picture is a little guy I caught on a recent trip up to the Letort with Kyle. Fun day, tough fishing. Caught a few more this size and smaller on my sexy hare's ear. 

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