Beaver Creek Trip Report
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Kevin Chaney
Feb 18, 2013, 2:42:56 PM2/18/13
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This past Friday, I decided to take the day off and head up to Beaver Creek, to give my hand at some spring creek fishing. Beaver Creek is about an hour and 15 mins northwest of DC, past Frederick MD, right off of I-70. Going against the flow of traffic in the morning up 270 and back in the evening is nice.
Being my first time on the creek, I stopped in at the fly shop and chatted with the owner, James. He was very helpful in sharing his knowledge. So I picked up some scuds and cress bugs and a few leech patterns and made my way to the stream. James said I would need to be stealthy - stay low and only work an area 3x then move on slowly. He wasn't kidding. After I finally got my ninja stealth moves down, I found some success on a size 16 green flashback scud in the deeper runs near the bank. As the clouds rolled in some small midges started to come off, but not enough to get me to change my rig. After a slow period I switched to a larger (size 12 green flash beaded wooly), I'd dead drift it down a run into a pool and found success twice (12 in brown and 10 in brown).
As they day wore, the wind picked up just a bit, and I was finally seeing some small rises in a few pools. With the light being hard to see anything too small, I put on a size 18 royal coachman parachute and had many strikes working my way back toward the fly shop. I landed 2 small browns (6-7 in variety) and once it started raining, I called it a day with the temperature quickly dropping.
I was using a 8'6' 5wt - but felt a smaller rod would have been useful and more fun catching the smaller browns.
Being my first time on the creek, I stopped in at the fly shop and chatted with the owner, James. He was very helpful in sharing his knowledge. So I picked up some scuds and cress bugs and a few leech patterns and made my way to the stream. James said I would need to be stealthy - stay low and only work an area 3x then move on slowly. He wasn't kidding. After I finally got my ninja stealth moves down, I found some success on a size 16 green flashback scud in the deeper runs near the bank. As the clouds rolled in some small midges started to come off, but not enough to get me to change my rig. After a slow period I switched to a larger (size 12 green flash beaded wooly), I'd dead drift it down a run into a pool and found success twice (12 in brown and 10 in brown).
As they day wore, the wind picked up just a bit, and I was finally seeing some small rises in a few pools. With the light being hard to see anything too small, I put on a size 18 royal coachman parachute and had many strikes working my way back toward the fly shop. I landed 2 small browns (6-7 in variety) and once it started raining, I called it a day with the temperature quickly dropping.
I was using a 8'6' 5wt - but felt a smaller rod would have been useful and more fun catching the smaller browns.
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