Potomac River Trophies

02/07/2023

Did a little prospecting today with some new flies and equipment. 14’ Spey can throw a 12” fly where you want it. Won’t be long now…..

09/08/2022

Now would be one of the better times of the year for dry fly smallmouth fishing.

https://dwr.virginia.gov/blog/fishing-terrestrials-for-summer-smallmouth/?fbclid=IwAR1uyNkTqoWTD9Rj0WzdzynxuySagvONUEO7aNqGUVXBgBlMQ231aVtF834

Smallmouth bass terrestrial action can be some of the most exciting fishing of the year.

08/23/2022

Throwing speys for days.…. A two handed rod allows you to throw 100 feet of line with about a 10th of the effort as a single-handed rod. Got into a decent number of these guys in about an hour and a half effort this afternoon on an after work special.

03/15/2022

Things are getting started quite nicely. Today might be a good day to hit the river.

02/10/2022

Stockers….. something to do and they were responding well enough to a fly. The little one had a broken spine that I discovered when cleaning it but somehow managed to survive and hit in the strongest current at the head of the pool.

02/02/2022

Some ice to deal with lately and not many fish. But at least I’m getting out. That all can change after this next round of weather and warm rain. Always take advantage of what I call Indian summers or quick warm spells in the dead of winter.

01/13/2022

01/12/2022

I won some metal. Not a terrible 2021. We had one of the best schoolie striper runs I’ve ever seen in May and June on the Potomac and maybe one of the best walleye years I’ve seen in 20 something years fishing the tidal Potomac.

09/01/2021

Went Cobia fishing to the mouth of the bay this weekend fishing everywhere from the ocean to well inside the barrier islands. We had a couple slow days with one really amazing day finding an enormous school of reds and Cobia together. I had to take one night off then hit the upper Potomac for a few hours before the storm last night.

08/02/2021

“Musky comup the krick-yet?”

07/31/2021

This continues to be a problem.

Red tide, a toxic algae bloom, has killed more than 600 tons of marine life in Florida. CNN's Nick Valencia reports that the Florida government and environmentalists are at odds over the cause of the bloom.

07/09/2021

A good fishing buddy sent me these recently; a cicada eating steelhead size trout from last week on the north branch of the Potomac and a mulberry eating carp from the other day. The world class dry fly fishing is mostly behind us but some fish are still looking up. It sure was a fun ride.

06/04/2021

An hours effort today and Par got his first carp on the fly. A good one at that.

06/02/2021

Insane top water dry fly action again today. All visual, all sight casting. Doesn’t get much better. Cicadas all over the water and singles and schools of carp everywhere we looked. Doubles were common. It took more time to fight the fish then to hook another one.

06/02/2021

Cicadas are flying in my garage at night. Mostly males because they are singing when they hit the ground. So does that mean all I have to do is fish cicadas under a dock light at night somewhere?

06/02/2021

It went from slow to white hot in a day. Numerous refusals from missed fish but sealed the deal on many more too.

05/30/2021

A friend took his kids down to a trout stream today between sports and fed some trout.

05/25/2021

Potomac River slam. All on the fly rod today except for the walleye.... And a blue cat.

05/20/2021

Couldn’t get this guy to hit a cicada fly so tied on a small wooly bu**er and he couldn’t refuse.

05/20/2021

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05/18/2021

Fly rod stripers all afternoon until the tide slowed.

05/17/2021

Always a good sign when these guys are covering fence posts at the boat ramp.

05/13/2021

“Im so excited.... I can’t hide it”!!!!! They were popping in my yard today and I picked up a fly order today. Who wants to take off the next whole month and enter dry fly fishing zen?

05/06/2021

Hickory shad have slowed way down on the river. A few white shad around but you have to be in the right spot at the right time. Decent showing of schoolie to medium 12 pound striped bass around at low light with good current. Herring are thicker than grains of sand at a beach so there’s a lot of options for the fish.

But the largemouth on the ponds have spawned and were feeding like crazy today. Numerous fish in two separate half hour efforts and all on the fly. poppers, clawdads and small game changers being the best fly.

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Oh... and these guys have started crawling from the ground in Potomac, Md area. Expect the massive invasion could start tonight!? Or the very near future.

04/28/2021

Mr. Pete breaking in more bamboo rods on the shad last night.