Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Any action on the Potomac?

We've had basically only sunfish action in the last week or so of fishing, and not particularly "hot" action at that.  Such is fishing.  

In Arkansas, I did manage one new fly rod species (pic)-- In my opinion, it is the prettiest of the sunfishes and one I miss catching during my years as a Missourian.  

First one to ID the species wins the smartie of the day prize. ;)  

Gene

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 7:26:33 PM UTC-4, Carl wrote:

I at Swain's Lock this morning,  I got a late start and there was no Smallmouth action on top.  I got a lot of casting practice in and got quite a few small bluegill on a popper.  The gills were hanging out near the bank near or in the shade.  

Bluegill on a 12.5 ft 7/8wt Spey rod was a bit of overkill.  It was fun anyway.  It beats practicing with a yarn fly.

Carl

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On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 3:51 PM, <tatu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I fished 4MR yesterday morning from 0530-0815. Caught a nice bluegill about 5 minutes after wading out on a dark green popper then nothing after that. I could see and hear tons of fish feeding all around me but nothing was biting. I was in the middle of the run fishing to both sides. Finally put a new long leader on my floating line and started throwing a Grey Ghost Streamer www.orvis.com/p/gray-ghost-streamer/0640
I cast and let it sink for a few seconds then started stripping it in about a foot at a time. Must have caught a dozen small strippers. Heck, I walked about 50 yards upstream to cast to a sunken tree, I just left the streamer in the water as I walked, strippers were still hitting the fly (even caught one too).
Cheers
Collin

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