On discovery and a tough 2015

[TurbineBlade]

I think there's a rule that your last 3 fishing trips dictate how you think your year is going overall ;).  We scoped 2 new lakes via canoe this weekend, both at opposite ends of Maryland and had slooowwww fishing at one (dinkers of various species), and kinda slow fishing at the other.  The only savior on the other was a nice pocket of crappie that kept us entertained for about an hour.  

I got one on a popper?!?  Anyone else have that happen?  The rest on marabou minnows, my mainstay.  Crappie are never a target for me, but they're not too bad.  

Then I hit the local tidal creek and found nothing but small white perch -- none of the usual bass/snakeheads/carp/cats you see this time of year.  I don't know whether the rain has kept the predators in the big river and the white perch are simply filling the void, or if the conditions are just different this year for whatever reason.  Good/great days fishing for any species have been fewer this year. 

Anyway - that won't keep me from trying, but in the interest of reporting bad days along with hero stories, there it is ;).  

Rich Farino Discovery (RFD) from the weekend #1:  Chain pickerel don't bite well (even in lakes where they are apparently quite abundant) when water temps increase in the summer.....or when there's been recent heavy rain....or when water temps increase and there's been recent, heavy rain.  Or maybe just not at the two lakes we hammered, in early July in 2015. 

Or they are spooked by scratched-up canoes painted forest green.  

Gene

[Richard Farino]

There’s a bar called RFD’s in the District.  They might have already trademarked that name.  Sometimes the discovery is a bummer… like I discovered without studs in my boots in Great Lakes steelhead rivers, if you slip and fall in, you can get hypothermic in a short amount of time.

I’ve found chain pickerel respond well to faster moving (but shorter stripped) topwater patters…  red and white particularly.

R

Richard Farino

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[TurbineBlade]

I think RfD is a reference dose too - but I like mine better.  Maybe RfD as the name of a bar is clever?   

Yep -- discovery sometimes results in a lot of nothing, or torn pants and poison ivy....but once in a while it leads to something good.  

Gene

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[namfos]

Last summer I caught a black crappie on a popper, a size 6 or 8. I was mighty surprised too - usually I catch them on small jigs with plastic or marabou. It was a very nice exciting surface take too!

Mark

[Bryan Lanier]

My wife caught her first fish, a crappie, on a little elk hair caddis. It was on her second or third cast ever using a fly rod. It was a decent size, too. probably about a pound.

Bryan

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:21 AM, namfos <mark....@gmail.com> wrote:

Last summer I caught a black crappie on a popper, a size 6 or 8. I was mighty surprised too - usually I catch them on small jigs with plastic or marabou. It was a very nice exciting surface take too!

Mark

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[TurbineBlade]

Interesting -- I guess it's not too bizarre, just a bit uncommon ;).  

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 9:48:41 AM UTC-4, Bryan wrote:

My wife caught her first fish, a crappie, on a little elk hair caddis. It was on her second or third cast ever using a fly rod. It was a decent size, too. probably about a pound.

Bryan

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:21 AM, namfos <mark....@gmail.com> wrote:

Last summer I caught a black crappie on a popper, a size 6 or 8. I was mighty surprised too - usually I catch them on small jigs with plastic or marabou. It was a very nice exciting surface take too!

Mark

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[namfos]

Yeah, it's not you, Gene; it's the fish.

;-)

Mark

[Carl Z.]

Crappie fishing is one of the joys of life.  Especially if the fish are a decent size.  When Crappie are schooling and active, you just have to find them and get a woolly bugger or marabou jig in front of them and be able to set the hook in "old paper mouth".  The best way to find the school is usually a pair of binoculars.  See where the fishermen are catching fish :-)

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