Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: 2016 shad run is one to remember for us

Thanks for the shout out, Jeff! Here's a photo of the Striper by-catch! Thanks to Thomas Perkins for the net and the photo!

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On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Jeffrey Silvan <jeffreysilvan@gmail.com> wrote:

I was out Saturday from early afternoon til 6 pm. It was pretty slow action right in front of Fletchers for the first hour or so, although I stuck the biggest pig of an American shad I have ever seen. Unfortunately, I didn't get it to the net, but at least Thomas was there to witness it. Nearly everything was on a chartreuse shad dart. After that, I rowed as far upstream as I could, which was fairly close to Chain Bridge. Scott had pulled up a big striper as an incidental catch earlier in the day, so I tied on a chartreuse/white clouser with a pink shad fly dropper. The majority of my catches were all on the clouser until the very end of the day when everything took the pink dart. Upstream was way better action. I had one stretch of 15 casts in a row with a fish or a bite, and another stretch where I stopped counting at 25 in a row. Nearly everything was an average size hickory, although I did pluck one decent size American.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Jim White <jrwhite55@gmail.com> wrote:

Damsel nymph?

Picture please.

I fished (nearly) everything I had in my shad box (and in several colors). Yellow clouser was my most consistent performer. However, we were not hooking up with anything near the consistency you were.

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1. How far up the Potomac do the shad run? Do they go up past Chain Bridge?

2. Are the American shad a separate run or are they running now and I'm just not catching them?

3. In our boat yesterday, Ron also landed a small striper. Has their run begun in earnest or do we still have a few weeks to go?

On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 3:28:00 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

This picture sums it up nicely:

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