Gunpowder Report 2013-10-05

[Jeffrey Silvan]

I went out on the Gunpowder today... and it is absolutely on fire right now. The morning started off relatively slow, mainly due to my sloppiness. I got to the river around 8:45 to a nice Trico hatch - or what I thought was one. Fish after fish ignored my trico - and I only had one take I missed. I started tying on all kinds of other flies (midges, gnats, hoppers, etc.) and couldn't get a take. I saw a couple caddis flying around, so I threw one on, and still only one missed take. I captured a flying bug and confirmed it was a trico hatch. I also saw a few fallen spinners on the water, so I even tried those. Finally, I noticed my leader was a bit crinkled and was making the fly sit in a little pile of line, so I re-tied it, tied back on a normal trico, and got nailed by a brown trout on my second cast. I picked off one more before the hatch ended around 11. 

With no hatch, I started fishing terrestrials. I missed a hit on an ant, then when it went quiet, I started shifting between other terrestrials... beetles, crickets, hoppers, etc. with no luck. I tied an ant back on and missed another strike, so I decided to stick with it. It was magic from the next stretch onward. I ended up getting well into the double digits on the ant for the rest of the day. All told, I probably landed 20 brown trout and 2 fallfish. Most were around 10 inches with a few (including my last) that were about 13-14 inches. It was by far my best day of trout fishing ever. I'm also about 70% certain that I had a brookie pop off just out of net range. The only reason I'm not more certain is because of how rare they are in the Gunpowder. But who knows, my eyes could've been playing tricks on me.

If you're furloughed, the Gunpowder may be a pretty good way to pass your time right now. Just be prepared for a weird combo of your legs freezing in the cold water while your face feels like it is on a frying pan...

[Richard DeafFly Lin]

Great trout!! You don't mind if I ask - Which section did you go? I went there at Masemore Road and down river last year.  I am going back soon and will try fishing at Fall Road area. How do you ID different between brown and brook? Last year I caught some and one of them (pic) was similar to your and I thought it was brook trout?

Richard

[Jeffrey Silvan]

I went from Masemore upstream. You've got a brown trout in your picture. Brook trout are more green versus the well, brownish color that you see on the brown trout. The belly of a brown trout often gets very yellow, but the brook trout is usually more green or tan (except for fall, when their spawning colors turn it bright orange). The patterns on the body are also different - brown trout usually have some vertical bands, while brooks don't. The spots on a brook trout are also typically lighter than the body color (brown trout's are usually darker), and the back of a brook trout often looks a little more like a maze than spots. Wikipedia has a few good reference pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_trout

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Richard DeafFly Lin <rlin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great trout!! You don't mind if I ask - Which section did you go? I went there at Masemore Road and down river last year.  I am going back soon and will try fishing at Fall Road area. How do you ID different between brown and brook? Last year I caught some and one of them (pic) was similar to your and I thought it was brook trout?

Richard

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[Richard DeafFly Lin]

Geezzz...Ahhh....I will have to un-crossline brook trout on my fish bucket list. Thanks for clarifying between these trout.

On Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:23:39 PM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:

I went from Masemore upstream. You've got a brown trout in your picture. Brook trout are more green versus the well, brownish color that you see on the brown trout. The belly of a brown trout often gets very yellow, but the brook trout is usually more green or tan (except for fall, when their spawning colors turn it bright orange). The patterns on the body are also different - brown trout usually have some vertical bands, while brooks don't. The spots on a brook trout are also typically lighter than the body color (brown trout's are usually darker), and the back of a brook trout often looks a little more like a maze than spots. Wikipedia has a few good reference pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_trout

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Richard DeafFly Lin <rlin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great trout!! You don't mind if I ask - Which section did you go? I went there at Masemore Road and down river last year.  I am going back soon and will try fishing at Fall Road area. How do you ID different between brown and brook? Last year I caught some and one of them (pic) was similar to your and I thought it was brook trout?

Richard

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[TurbineBlade]

Nice report Jeff -- it looks like a lot of folks get browns as the primary species out of gunpowder...?  

I'm trying to limit myself to VA and PA licenses, but I have to admit that MD might be nice to have.  That looks like a nice place to fish.  

Gene

[Jeffrey Silvan]

Gene, that's right. The population is probably 95%+ wild browns, with a handful of rainbows and an extremely rare brookie.

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[Fish218]

I think the easiest way to tell the brookie is the tell tail white one their fins.  The wikibedia pics show the white clearly.

 

Brian