Shiny happy minnows, early morning 7-17-14

[TurbineBlade]

Hello -- on the ride to work this morning I noticed hundreds of (what appeared to be) happy minnows/killifish/dunno jumping out of the water all over the place, both on the Potomac and the section of 4-mile run I pass (bridges near the airport).  I couldn't tell exactly what was going on, but I did ride through several clouds of bugs as well...a redfish guide in NC says mullet jump because they're happy, so I'm sure minnows are the same.

So....howcomeszit?  

Gene 

BTW -- fished for a couple of hours after work yesterday and there are still a lot of loafer snakehead around.  They're kind of annoying honestly -- I haven't found them to be particularly good fighters, and I'm annoyed at the chore of pithing them with a multi-tool if I catch one.  I wish I could find more carp....

[Rob Snowhite]

American shad fry. They'll make it look like it's raining. 

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[TurbineBlade]

Fantastic!  Thanks Rob -- that would have bothered me all day!

Is it a feeding thing, or something else?

Gene

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:04:23 AM UTC-4, Rob Snowhite wrote:

American shad fry. They'll make it look like it's raining. 

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On Jul 17, 2014, at 7:23 AM, TurbineBlade <doubl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello -- on the ride to work this morning I noticed hundreds of (what appeared to be) happy minnows/killifish/dunno jumping out of the water all over the place, both on the Potomac and the section of 4-mile run I pass (bridges near the airport).  I couldn't tell exactly what was going on, but I did ride through several clouds of bugs as well...a redfish guide in NC says mullet jump because they're happy, so I'm sure minnows are the same.

So....howcomeszit?  

Gene 

BTW -- fished for a couple of hours after work yesterday and there are still a lot of loafer snakehead around.  They're kind of annoying honestly -- I haven't found them to be particularly good fighters, and I'm annoyed at the chore of pithing them with a multi-tool if I catch one.  I wish I could find more carp....

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[Rob Snowhite]

They are picking off midges and terrestrials and will eat a small nymph. And something should be around to eat them. Match that hatch. 

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[TurbineBlade]

That settles it -- I'm going to bring the finesse (the TFO rod, not personal style) and a spool of 6-7x tomorrow morning with some midge pupae (Al's rat) and larvae (Al's rat with wire) and get one in the phlegm.  I love fishing in the phlegm.  I love catching minnows and micro sunfish which are obviously feeding on insects.  I'll spend over an hour trying to catch mummichogs on the SF Shenandoah -- ask Beth.  

Now that's howcomeszit folks!  

Gene