A Bow, a Brook, and a Brown.

Just a couple of photos. Fishing is good, go fishing.

A Day in the Cold Produced A Lot of Fish!

Fishing is good, but be very careful of spawning fish. I have not gotten out a ton and have been trying to fish where there are stockers! However, there are been plenty of Browns around!!

Bouncing Around.

I have been everywhere but the normal spots! Now is the time of year I like to try and find fish in weird places. This keeps me away from prime spawning habitat, which, is good for the fish and gives me a chance to catch fish I normally wouldn't. 

A solid Tiger!

Canoe trip!

Lake Trip

Floating Marginal Section of Rivers

Brookies

and Bows

A Roller Coaster of Flows.

I was able to hit the river during a three-day window of 300 cfs flow and the fishing was fantastic! The lower portion of the river was getting a lot of runoff, was more off-color, and likely considerably warmer. As always, I went looking for clear cool water and found some hungry fish waiting for me! There were plenty of Browns, Brookies, and a surprising number of Rainbows! I am guessing that some Rainbows spilled over from the lake OR the high flows allowed a bunch to make it way up river from the Potomac. I hooked my very first Palamino Trout in the Savage, but, most likely a result of my astonishment, it came unbuttoned before I landed it. 

We are likely stuck with some high flows for the remainder of the week! So if you are not opposed to some still water fishing the smallmouth have been hitting pretty good!

  

Should Have Been There Saturday!

Saturday the river jumped from around 120 cfs to 200 cfs and the fishing was FANTASTIC! You could do no wrong, the Browns were all over just about anything on a dead drift. 

Then the storm Sunday dumped a ton of rain and the flows skyrocketed! I fished and it was stupid. There is no reason to fish in super high flows. 

However, something to keep in mind is that runoff is usually a different temperature than the river. The runoff entering the river this weekend was really warm and river temperatures were approaching 70 degrees.

As you can see in my pictures, I found some clean cold water above where the major runoff inputs were entering the river and found some fish. No matter how desperate you are to catch fish (and I get desperate) keep an eye on the water temperature and stick to the cold water. You will catch more fish and minimize risk to the fish. 

The smart move would have been to say forget it and fish for some smallmouth...

Wait, I did that too.

The Shocking Truth...

I volunteered to help during the shocking survey of the Savage River, and guess what, there are plenty of brown trout in the Savage. Suprise Suprise. 

The North Branch!

Tons of Rainbows with a few Browns and Brookies! 

Backwoods Brookies.

An afternoon dry fly fishing some brookies. 

Putting some Friends on Fish.

Floating the North Branch