Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: POTOMAC SHAD UPDATE??

Dan, I had my 10'10" 6 weight switch out there. It was my first outing really with a two hander. I am going to try and head out sometime this week after work and give it another go. Its looking kind of rainy though. I just need more practice with it. I need to hook some shad. 

On Monday, May 6, 2013 8:27:04 AM UTC-4, Dan Davala - Founder/President wrote:

One of the truly hard parts of my job is having to field test new stuff before we let it out.  Because of my interests, I get to horse around with a lot of our two-handed product line, which means I have to go fishing with it - for work you know.  Friday morning Trent and I headed up the River for an hour or so before setting up for the FYCC, and I brought along one of our prototype Clearwater Spey rods in the 12'6" 6-weight size and crushed them from the rocks.  Super fun rod for Shad!  I tossed a 450 grain Skagit Flight head and a type 8 tip cut back to 12' 6" to match the rod length.  Perfect combination - though I need to do my diligence and throw a bunch of other lines on it.  I wonder if they'll let me keep it!  I have the 13'6" 8-weight Clearwater to put through the paces too. 

 

Trent got into them with a 14 footer as well.

 

Dan Davala 

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Sardman <morpi...@gmail.com> wrote:

looks like a large herring to me....

saw a ton of them this morning at gravelly

 

On Sunday, May 5, 2013 8:21:29 PM UTC-7, Matthew Longley wrote:

Went out in my canoe this afternoon with my dad, got into a few shad and maybe a few herring.  Picture attached below, can anyone tell if that's a herring or a hickory?

I didn't spend much time with the shad though, because I was intent on chasing stripers.  There were a ton of little fish jumping around us, and I figure they were trying to get off the menu at the striper buffet going on beneath us, so within 15 minutes of getting there I tied on the "bleeding shad" half and half I tied up this week.  Caught three stripers in 2 hours, the biggest is in the picture below.  Not a pig, but left me happy.

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