Fishing Teddy Roosevelt Island

[Jefferson Robertson]

I have tried fishing Teddy Roosevelt a handful of times now, and have come up empty each time. Anyone have any suggestions? My main target are stripers off the beaches - I've seen them a few times along the beaches while jogging along the island / up not eh Rte 50 bridge. I've tried throwing a few clousers, poppers, and wooly buggers, but haven't been able to get any bites. I have also tried fishing for some of the smaller fish I've seen along there (can't tell what they are) with adams flies, and a damsel tied to a popper, but haven't had any luck on those either. What does everyone fish for over there, and what do you use?

[Paul Kalajainen]

I've never caught any Stipers there, but I've done okay on other fish.  I've caught blue gills on a variety of topwater flies, a couple of largemouth on woolly buggers.  It's tough to find room for the fly rod there, I've been there with spinning gear and caught some largemouth on rapalas too.

Paul

[HermanyorFlorida]

Not that it work all that well with the fly rod, but I have seen a striper caught, over the railing in the middle of the pedestrian bridge.  

[Daniel Davala]

It can be done.  Here is a report I put up back in 2010:  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/bIep25hmCEE/2dGQr7W9x4sJ

That said, I cannot in good conscience recommend wading under the 66 bridge as it as a very soft bottom and getting stuck in the mud (i.e. drowning) is a very real possibility.  In the years since that post, I have had some good mornings fishing the tidal flow between the abutments from a kayak with a sinking line and a half & half.

Dan Davala

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[Brendan]

backing up what Dan is saying -- the mud there is not something you want to mess with. 

also be careful when under the 66 bridge it's kinda falling apart --  had a large chunk fall in the water close to my canoe. 

 

On Monday, August 18, 2014 2:07:35 PM UTC-4, Dan Davala - Founder/President wrote:

It can be done.  Here is a report I put up back in 2010:  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/bIep25hmCEE/2dGQr7W9x4sJ

That said, I cannot in good conscience recommend wading under the 66 bridge as it as a very soft bottom and getting stuck in the mud (i.e. drowning) is a very real possibility.  In the years since that post, I have had some good mornings fishing the tidal flow between the abutments from a kayak with a sinking line and a half & half.

Dan Davala

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:43 PM, HermanyorFlorida <m.herm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not that it work all that well with the fly rod, but I have seen a striper caught, over the railing in the middle of the pedestrian bridge.  

On Monday, August 11, 2014 8:53:33 AM UTC-4, Paul Kalajainen wrote:

I've never caught any Stipers there, but I've done okay on other fish.  I've caught blue gills on a variety of topwater flies, a couple of largemouth on woolly buggers.  It's tough to find room for the fly rod there, I've been there with spinning gear and caught some largemouth on rapalas too.

Paul

On Saturday, August 9, 2014 7:07:22 PM UTC-4, Jefferson Robertson wrote:

I have tried fishing Teddy Roosevelt a handful of times now, and have come up empty each time. Anyone have any suggestions? My main target are stripers off the beaches - I've seen them a few times along the beaches while jogging along the island / up not eh Rte 50 bridge. I've tried throwing a few clousers, poppers, and wooly buggers, but haven't been able to get any bites. I have also tried fishing for some of the smaller fish I've seen along there (can't tell what they are) with adams flies, and a damsel tied to a popper, but haven't had any luck on those either. What does everyone fish for over there, and what do you use?

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