Schoolies still in session?

[Bill W.]

Has anyone caught any stipers on the Potomac lately or are they already headed out of town?  I'm hoping to hit a spot near Roosevelt Island this week and would like to catch a few before it's too late, but I was up by Chain Bridge last week and all was quiet. So, anyone having any luck of the striped variety?

[Mr. Bill]

These guys spotted some yesterday, but didn't hook up.  They did, however, get a nice pic of Dan Davala and some other fly guys:

 

http://www.gofishn.com/ned-desmond/17056-potomac-shad-and-striped-bass-fishing-this-morning/

 

[Shawn]

I was out at Chain Bridge Saturday morning and caught a small striper, 8 inches, my first. The tide and river were high and still murky from the rains earlier in the week. I saw one other guy fly fishing but looked like he was just getting into herring or shad, it was difficult to tell at 60+ yards. 

[mi...@shadfishing.com]

That post is from March 19th. Note gin clear water and lack of flow or flora.  Currently the river is murked up from the rain.  Last week it was loaded with small stripers.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Mr. Bill <wittig....@gmail.com> wrote:

These guys spotted some yesterday, but didn't hook up.  They did, however, get a nice pic of Dan Davala and some other fly guys:

 

http://www.gofishn.com/ned-desmond/17056-potomac-shad-and-striped-bass-fishing-this-morning/

 

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[Parker]

I was up near Chain Bridge on Saturday afternoon and hooked a bunch of small stripers in the 5-10 inch class with a few pushing 16-18 inches. Every other cast with a #4 gray/white clouser produced tiny stripers... and I mean tiny, like too small to lip with my pinky. There are definitely some nicer sized ones still on the move in the Potomac, but you will have to break through the preschoolies first.

 

On Monday, May 21, 2012 12:55:18 PM UTC-4, Mr. Bill wrote:

[Mr. Bill]

Oops, I read that is May 19th.

 Thanks

[Trent Jones]

I was down at GP for a bit this afternoon and found a few small Stripers on 2/0 clousers…had a few bumps as well but not the action I was expecting with the overcast skies and tide.

I was wondering if those photos from March would land somewhere. I am not sure if people call that rock we are standing on three step, but I would like to name the photo, three stooges. Haha, looks like Jonathan is standing on water.

-Trent

[Aaron O]

Been doing decently for the last month there until this weekend.  Went out friday night and sunday morning just down stream of the bridge,  Slow fishing with mucky water and higher levels all weekend.  My stripers ranged for 12 to 16 with some schoolies and one 17" but this was a Strong Heavy 17".  My 7 wieght would not move him at first.  I half thought I snagged it on a rock until he decided to move on his own.

 

 

Aaron

[Eric Y.]

May have been me. I was on the Maryland side and I didn't get a single striper. I did hook 5 shad, nothing to brag about, though, and got tossed by a snakehead. I was about 100yds up stream from the bridge fishing in the eddies and out to behind the big rock. Lots of shad and herring hitting the surface, but all my takes were down 3-5ft and it was really muddied up. I was having a hard time with the sink tip as I usually use a sink tip on my 9wt single hander and I was using a 6wt switch. I'm not the best two hander and even worse with the sink tip on, so I that hindered my casts and limited me to about 60ft casts. 

If anyone has any tips on casting a switch with a sink tip in that current, I'm all ears.