"Report" From Fletchers 4/1

[robert mills]

Hi Guys, 

My dad was staying in the down town area and wanted to fish nearby so we went to fletchers yesterday. Tides were way up, current was high and the water was very dark. Needless to say no boats were being rented and no-one was catching any fish that we could see. We toughed it out for about 4 hours from 0830-1130 and 1530-1630, maybe had a few takes but nothing we were able to set a hook on.

[Tom Somers]

Fished from the bank for a couple hours. Nothing. Same with everyone I talked with. Then roaches for another hour so, same deal, nothing.

[puppydrum]

Bank below/above Chain Bridge from 7 until 10:30 but same as everybody else, i.e. nothing.  Did foul hook a nice walleye that I put back.  

[Carl Z.]

Awesome job on the Walleye.  That's the first one I've heard of caught in that section on a fly. 

I walked down just to see how high the water was running.  The web site listed it as just over 6ft but it seemed higher than other times it was listed as 6ft.  I did meet a couple of guys scouting out the section above the "helepad" for Kayaking.  I didn't see them come down but they were planning their run.   

Carl

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Carl Zmola

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:16 PM, puppydrum <blai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Bank below/above Chain Bridge from 7 until 10:30 but same as everybody else, i.e. nothing.  Did foul hook a nice walleye that I put back.  

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[Nathan Liversedge]

Haven't seen any talk about the VA side - I caught a half dozen or so, hooked and lost three times that many, mostly spinning but got one in on a fly, on the VA side right below chain bridge. I was pulling them in from 4-6 feet off the bank, right off the points created by Pimmit Run's branches into the river. There were some guys throwing a net in the same zone, and they were pulling in 4-5 per toss. Not sure of the legality of that, but just mention to give context to the volume. I had best luck on Sat early but some on Sunday. 

[timia...@gmail.com]

We were fishing the DC side of Chain bridge yesterday and there was a ton of shad along the banks. Even with the muddy water we were getting a bunch on the fly. For every fish hooked we were also getting snagged fish as well. Not sure if they were just missing the fly or if there were so many in the river I was just hitting them on my retrieve. I saw the same guys netting and keeping fish- didn't see any of them with a visible license either- who do you report that to in DC?

[TurbineBlade]

Well, you could bring a banana with you when shad fishing and when you see someone illegally netting shad, you dial the officers on the banana and then talk into it.  

It would do about as good in getting someone to enforce the regulations, plus you'd having something to eat.  

Gene

[Casey Peltier]

Has anyone else wondered where those bony, impossible-to-cook properly things taken by the poachers go? Nouk Mahm?

I was delighted when they became a sport fish because they sure haunted my youth--gee, we disliked them! I throw them back with glee...

C

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[namfos]

Got that right, Gene.