4MR at Bluemont Park

Jamie Carracher

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Jul 24, 2015, 11:53:33 AM7/24/15

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My company is having a work function there next week, and I saw on the website there is fishing. I did a search on the forum and didn't see any mention of this park. Has anyone ever been around there and is it worth it to trying fishing with a fly rod?

Bamboo Ed

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Jul 25, 2015, 7:25:39 AM7/25/15

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Don't bother

TurbineBlade

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Jul 25, 2015, 7:54:51 AM7/25/15

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It might be worth taking a look if you're right there, but generally I understand from Rob that as you get above Mt. Vernon Ave. the water gets pretty skinny. There might not be "fishing sized" fish up there.

Oddly, I recall about 6 years (or 7) ago when they used to stock the upper 4MR with trout. We biked through there one day and saw a lot of people with their kids out there fishing for trout. I assume this program was abandoned either due to poaching or feasibility.

Gene

On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 7:25:39 AM UTC-4, Bamboo Ed wrote:

Don't bother

Brendan

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Jul 25, 2015, 11:25:10 AM7/25/15

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kinda want to prank you and tell you to bring waders and an 8wt, but there's nothing in the water there besides eels.

As far as the trout, the $2,500 they used to spend on kids fishing day was cut from the county budget as wasteful/trivial spending... Funny how this was around the same time the county started building million dollar bus stops and multimillion dollar dog parks.

Jamie Carracher

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Jul 27, 2015, 12:04:02 PM7/27/15

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Thanks for the honesty, y'all!

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