Thanks TPFR for organizing this tournament, had a blast! Already looking forward to next year's - and seeing someone (hopefully me, muahaha) beat the 220 mark I put up this year!
For anyone looking for some absurd panfish action - I highly recommend Cub Run near Chantilly. It's a fairly small, shallow stream that you can wet wade easily. Where I fished it, there aren't many bass or other predator fish of any significant size so the sunfish have completely taken over. Friday I fished about 100 yards of water and caught 117 in 3 hours. I fished another 3 hours saturday late morning/early PM on a different section and caught another 103. Caught about 50% redbreast and the other half evenly split between green sunfish, bluegills, and green x bluegill hybrids. Despite my lobbying for rock bass I did not catch any!
Fly of choice was an unweighted green weenie. I tied a second nymph on behind that for the last hour on Saturday - and doubled up probably a half dozen times. One thing that got reinforced to me this weekend is that sunfish are insanely competitive with each other. The worst thing in the world to them is another sunfish taking their food, very entertaining.
I got some video footage on the gopro that I'll try to post - it ended up in the water, and seems to be toast, but I was able to recover about half of the video from the memory card.
Again, fun time and want to see what happens next year!
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