Saturday Fishing - Potomac River

[thephili...@gmail.com]

Hi! I'm planning to take my girlfriend out for fly fishing on Saturday. I don't have a float, so we'll be fishing from the shoreline. Can someone please provide advice on locations and flies that would help make this more memorable than my last trip? I'm still learning, and for now, she would like to as well!

Thank you!

Philip

[namfos]

Fairfax's Riverbend Regional Park is nice and wadeable, I was there for the first time this past Saturday acquainting a friend with spin fishing for bass - we only caught one smallie, but that's okay since we were mostly into shooting the breeze until noon time. That day, Little Falls gage was about 3.6 and dropping, water temp mid 80s and Point of Rocks was 2.5 and dropping too. As of right now the gage height at both locations continues to drop and the water's cooler, so conditions ought to be decent come Saturday. I may escape on Friday to the other side of the river at Violette's Lock if I can get a visit to the dentist and lawn mowing done expeditiously. ;-)

Riverbend also rents boats, canoes and kayaks, but I didn't look too closely at the rates. You can check with the park authority, http://1.usa.gov/13mtif1  I'm sure you 'll get plenty of other comments on Riverbend from TPFRodders

Mark

[thephili...@gmail.com]

Thank you, Mark. I appreciate your recommendations and have spent quite a few hours looking into them. 

[namfos]

Just don't waste fishing time investigating. ;-)  I'm heading out in a little bit to scope out Seneca Breaks which is next to Violette's Lock on the MD side.

Tight lines, 

Mark

[Kenny]

is there after hours access to the Potomac above Riverbend park?  The park gates seem to close at 8:30pm and was wondering if there were another way to park and to get down to that area of the potomac.  Thanks!

On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:06:55 AM UTC-4, thephili...@gmail.com wrote:

[Charles.Tapp]

Check out the Maryland side at Swains.