Spent a few hours at Fletcher's today and managed to catch a dozen. This was #1 of the season.
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I've watched the fleet dwindle from over 50 boats a couple decades ago to less than half that. There was once water at the dock for all 50+ boats. Now there's not even room for all the ones they have left. Your Government at work...
If you haven't donated to Friends Of Fletchers Cove you need to do so. The way I'm feeling about watching Fletchers die slowly; if you don't donate to help save it you shouldn't even fish there.
Just below Chain Bridge on the Va . side
Above C B on DC side. Access vis canal toe path. About 1/4 mi north take concrete raceway down to river
South end of Fletcher's. ( Walkers point ). You have to scramble over a lot of river debris to get to it.
Also keep in mind that the river is tidal at Chain Bridge - possible to get stranded on the rocks if you aren't careful.
If anyone is ever unsure about how strong that current really is - notice how wide the river is upriver from Great Falls. It's about 1,500 feet wide up there...at chain bridge, that same volume of water is being funneled through a 120 ft wide channel. The turbulence that causes is pretty insane.
Would it still be practical to go shad fishing... using rain gear.... or would water conditions pretty much prevent safe and productive fishing?
If not, what locations would be most advisable in rainy weather?
I've found it's also helpful to look at the upstream gage at Point of Rocks - if you see a huge spike on this gage, it will hit Chain Bridge about 6 hours later. Can help you pick up on an incoming flood that was caused by rain hundreds of miles away from where you will actually be fishing.
Yesterday's storms and heavy rain mostly stayed east of the blue ridge - so in this case, the Point of Rocks gage is not showing much of a spike, because not much rain fell upriver from that point.
However, the Monocacy drainage took the brunt of the rain, and the gage is showing a 10,000 cfs spike. If you planned to fish chain bridge today, that extra 10,000 cfs is heading your way.
Here's the link: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?01643000
Some ink for Fletchers in the Baltimore Sun thanks to Mike Bailey http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/outdoors/ph-ac-cs-outdoors-column0416-20170415-story.html