Scott: Just returned last night from Project Healing Waters guiding (and some
squeezed in fishing) on the North Fork of the South Branch of the
Potomac in West Virginia. Water was much lower than last year, but fish
were there -- you could see them in several spots, but that made them a
bit weary. Fished a bit on Friday afternoon before the wounded
warriors arrived Friday night to scout out the river. I caught a half
dozen rainbows in the 14-16 inch range on an olive woolly bugger, golden
retriever, zebra midge and copper john. Saturday I guided for a
wounded warrior named Sam and unfortunately we couldn't get a bite on as
we threw everything but the kitchen sink at them for about 5 hours.
Sunday morning I guided for another vet named Steve and he hooked into a
monster rainbow using a #22 zebra midge. That fish leaped, ran upstream
& downstream and after about 10 minutes finally broke off... but it
was a heart pounding adrenaline rush for both of us for several
minutes.
The Quantico and Fort Belvoir Project Healing Waters Chapters are led by Marty Laksbergs and Bob Gartner, and those folks do an absolute terrific job establishing fly fishing programs for wounded warriors and service veterans.
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