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| Conor with 1st Bass of the Day |
Conor and I were looking to target large-mouth so we loaded up Clifford and hit the water on a Potomac feeder recommended by Scott at 0900. It took us about 25 minutes to find the channel Scott had noted and then we paddled upstream for another 20-min or so as the creek began to feel more like a wooded river and less like a tidally influenced feeder. In retrospect we should have continued upstream even further as that's where the best fishing turned out to be, but the tide was flowing out and the paddle upstream as the creek narrowed was no joke. Our furthest point up-stream was marked by a large tree trunk spanning the creek from right to left 2/3 of the way across the river and an old duck blind just beyond it.
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| Yellow Perch! |
The creek here was sandy and curvacious with good channeling and holes along the banks. We immediately caught +13 inch bass for 30-minutes or so as we were in a hot area. This hot area last about 150 yards and then petered out as the stream widened and swallowed. We continued to pick up the odd fish and Conor caught a yellow-perch to boot. Thorough the day we had success on a yellow-jacket popper in size-8 fished off a 5-weight, a white popper in size 6 fished off my 6wt and a yellow beetle-spin fished on an ultra light spinning rod. Along the way we saw numerous marauding bass in the hydrilla, ospreys and bald eagles. We were off the water by 1300. All and all a good day but me lesson was to go upstream even further!
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