new to Virginia

[Roman Gulakowski]

I am new to the area and fear I missed trout season here. Where can I go for some trout or what else can I get into locally? I live in Falls Church area.

[thanl...@gmail.com]

The Gunpowder River west of Baltimore is a tailwater stream that stays cold all summer, always a good choice. Many of the small Brook Trout streams in the Shenandoah should still be productive. Mossy Creek down by Harrisonburg, VA is a great year round spring creek. There are probably many PA streams but I've never been up there. I'm sure other folks will chime in with more and better ideas than these but the bottom line is that while the stocking season may be over there are still trout to be had - just a matter of technique and patience.

[Bob Smith]

Go talk to the guys at Urban Angler in Alexandria. They are very knowledgable and helpful.
Allan Short is there on Saturday's and his passion is trout.

[Carl Z.]

Shenandoah National Park still has brookies all but the hottest months of the year.

The Gunpowder in MD (just north of Baltimore) is a tailwater fishery but a bit tough.

And South Central PA has a bunch of well known spring creeks that fish well most of the summer, Letort, Yellow Breeches, Big Spring Creek. 

There are others too. but summer time is Smallmouth time on the Potomac.  

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:04 PM, 'Bob Smith' via Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Go talk to the guys at Urban Angler in Alexandria. They are very knowledgable and helpful.
Allan Short is there on Saturday's and his passion is trout.

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[Danny Barrett]

PA has some great streams up by State College.  I uses to make the 3 hour drive from Pittsburgh over to SC just for a solid dawn to dusk on the water. There are some decent B and B's in the area.  Some of the streams have smallies in them too.  Nothing like a dawn popper bite for smallies, a afternoon of nymphing, followed by an evening of dries. 

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[NormaK]

I spent this weekend at the North Branch Woodland Retreat in Barnum WVA (Md or WVa license acceptable) fly fishing the north branch of the Potomac catch and release section below Jennings Randolph reservoir. Threw a variety of flies including Woolley buggars, nymphs and dries. Wading is extremely difficult but once situated casting is easy. Trout were active and we were successful. - caught rainbows and Browns in the 12" range.
Norma

[johnfarr]

I had a lot of fun on the Rapidan in Shenandoah last year in late June. Sustained periods of 90+ degree weather and little rain will make the fishing tougher, but it should still be fine now, especially given all the rain we've had lately.

On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 8:02:36 PM UTC-4, Roman Gulakowski wrote:

[Jones]

My 2 cents - when I first started exploring the area, I found the NOVA TU chapter's "fish with a member" trips to be a great way to find locations and learn where to park or how to access streams. They fish VA, MD and PA streams throughout the year. You can Google their website for more info and if you're not a member how to join.

I just fished Jeremy's Run in the SNP last Wednesday and the brookies were still biting. In July the Yellow Breeches in PA has a white fly hatch in the evenings that is a real blast to fish and Mossy Creek in VA has great trico hatches. You can reach the PA limestone streams in about the same time it takes to drive to the VA mountain freestone streams, so there are plenty of options and opportunities all year round if you're willing to drive at least 2 hours and pay out of state fishing license fees. There are also plenty of books out there with directions to trout water in the 3 states (and WV).

Ut prosim

[TurbineBlade]

Ah, thank you!  "Fish with a member", "stand next to some dude" -- I was close.  

Gene

[Chuq Yang]

I have to put in a shout out for Beaver Creek as well between Frederick and Hagerstown, MD. I caught a few browns there on Saturday, even with higher flows. You can wade pretty easily there, but you generally won't really need to.

Good luck and welcome!

[Roman Gulakowski]

I will need to check out Beaver Creek. I had some success at Mossy Creek with a large rainbow. The drive was a really long haul.

[Roman Gulakowski]