Rex, I miss pretty much all of our former outdoors writers. Does any local "paper" still cover fishing? Not to my knowledge. Angus was not really very experienced at outdoors activities when he got the job but he plunged in wholeheartedly. Before Angus, there was C. Boyd Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer wrote a slew of books (25?) but when I met him and tried to talk to him once at a show he was cold and aloof. In this thread I mentioned throwing a Mickey Finn streamer for yellow perch - it may have been Pfeiffer that made that recommendation a long time ago, it stuck with me but damned if I can find it online anywhere.
Gene Mueller wrote for a LONG time, first for the Evening Star, then when that paper folded he wrote for the Post for a while, but the paper's political slant grated on him and he ended up at the W. Times when it was created. I think Mueller was the most relentlessly out there hitting streams, working contacts, relaying news on fishing of all of them, though he could be cranky at times. He's really getting up there but has a facebook page and still posts fish pictures, he's down in SC I believe.
There was also Pete Toreock ( I know I'm butchering his last name spelling, help appreciated!) who wrote for the long defunct Journal newspapers for a while. I fished in a local bass tournament circuit for a couple of years in the early 80's and he competed also. I caught 2 big bass at Lake Anna in miserable rainy conditions, and edged him to win by just a couple of ounces. He was very gracious, especially since he thought he had won because I was the last to weigh in. But the very next tournament, on the Potomac, he cleaned up jigging some metal spoons along pilings in Aquia creek, and I was thrilled to be among the first to congratulate him. Class act, good fisherman with passion for writing too. I have no idea what happened to him, maybe if I remembered how to spell his last name I could find him.
But lest I digress from the thread topic, I don't recall any of these guys writing about catching jacks on the fly. Though there are other things I don't remember so well anymore....
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Rex Moore <rexmoore@gmail.com> wrote:
"There had to be a time -- maybe 200, maybe 2,000, maybe 10,000 years ago -- when humans were doing the same thing, following signs of the season to get where they needed to go to survive. Maybe that's why we like this, because it reminds us of that."I miss Angus Phillips.--On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:45 AM Tom Moran <twmoran19@gmail.com> wrote:You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders" group.I don't really fish in the very cold winter anymore, but would draw some inferences - all fish move slower in colder water, so I would fish slower and deeper, and focus on upper creek holes out of the current. Fish cannot hold in current when they are needing to conserve calories and feeding only sparsely. I do think however, that we're about to start getting warmer and within the next week to two the water temps will get things moving a bit. Above I mentioned yellow perch because they are about to begin their runs, they will be pushing up into prime pickerel waters and they are eminently catchable. Like pickerel they are a beautiful fish to behold and unlike pickerel, they make superb eating (though scales are like iron). You could go out for pickerel but if you want to be assured of catching something, switch to smaller streamers and drop them into some outer creek bends (holes) and almost certainly get something. With a 9 foot flyrod you could hardly call it casting, just flip into the hole and let it sink to near bottom and give it a motion. Here's an old article from Angus Phillips on catching perch in exactly the spot I was referring to in Allens Fresh.On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:08 AM, tperkins <thomas.perkins1@gmail.com> wrote:Tom, thank you as well. So much awesome information here!
On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 9:02:29 AM UTC-5, Andrew Sarcinello wrote:Tom, thanks for the clarification, that makes sense to me.One thing about our Tuckahoe float, given the mid winter cold conditions, aquatic vegetation was non-existent. As Misha said, we focused on woody cover and eddies mostly. Not so much on the channel until the very end, so maybe that was a mistake. Have you caught many in winter, and if so do you think their habits change? I've heard some say they don't really change where they like to hold, but one of my best fishing friends, who has far more experience than I do, insists they will stack up in deep water during extreme cold.
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