Sounds like a section I fish close by my house in Columbia. Care to share where this was with me/us?? What's been hot on the patuxents? I'm out in Frostburg still, but will be home the 18th and want to catch me some trouts. Anyone have any sucess on the Murray Hill delayed harvest area? I've had a few nice rainbows down there. And have heard of big rainbows and a few browns off of Vollmerhousen.
Any columbia area lakes being fished? I know Elkhorn and Centenial were stocked with trouts too.
-Eddie Dillon Tidewater Fly Co.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [VFB] Stoned afternoon fishing Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:43:43 EDT
Well, I really meant an afternoon of fishing with stonefly nymphs. Fished #8
Dark Brown Stonefly Nymphs after tring EVERYTHING else in the box and what a
hot fly today. You know how fish just nail the dog dirt out of a hot dry?
Well imagine large bows bolting out from 5' deep under logs to hit a nymph
fished deadrift with no weight. It just worked over and over again until I changed
to a wet with little action afterwards. I wanted to save that fly to take
home and tie more tonight.
I fished the stonefly nymph at the top with an intermediate CJ and a wet
dropper until it became obvious they just wanted the stonefly. The first two fish
were 21" and 17" respectively and many in between them and the last. I
switched back to wets when my last bow was a 4"er. Yes, I'm a confirmed
nymphofishamaniac after the pounding that fly got. Didn't ever lose it as I was using
4lb (comes out to 4x) flourocarbon leader from Wally World.
The stream? Just a little headwater about 10' across with deep pools, a
beaver dam, riffles and close to my home in MD. Not Morgan Run either since that
stream gets pounded these days. Now I didn't turn many rocks over with
stonefly nymphs under them but quite a few hellgramites about 2" on average. Maybe
this was what they were keying on.
Smell my hands. They STILL smell like fish since I caught so many in just a
few hours. Okay, back to my hole ...to tie more flys.
Murf
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