How to fish Gravelly Point

[McFly]

I've been down to Gravelly Point and I have to be the only member that
can't catch fish there, I usually fish the area to the right of the
boat ramp where the water flows through to the duck pond. The current
is always to strong and the weeds are so thick I usually have a salad
attached to my fly. I fish a 6 wt line and I cast and let the current
take the fly down current, I use clousers and nymphs at times but with
no luck HELP

[Rich, Marek]

Search for previous posts on this subject.

GP is not a sure thing, nor is fishing for that matter. Time of day,
tides, water temps, weather et al can contribute to your success at this
hole. If you encounter lots of weeds, you're likely fishing too early in
the tide change.

Marek

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[gotascii]

I'll second Marek's comment to search. In fact, I wish this was a
suggestion that was emblazoned along the top of the site. I, and
several other people who have had luck there, have posted pretty
detailed descriptions of when and how to fish GP. That said, even if
you go out there when its cold, overcast, outgoing tide and you chuck
the heaviest olive clousers on a t20 sink tip 2h you might walk away
empty handed. Keep trying though! Use the search to dig up all the
tips and tricks and keep hitting it. It'll click one day.

[SteveK]

To me it sounds like when you say the flow of water is going into duck
pond you are fishing the wrong tide? You want the water to flow from
the duck pond into gravelly. That is when I always have the best luck!

[Emmet]

Yeah, so I did it exactly the wrong way myself this morning, ie water
flowing in and not out. I thought I had figured out the tides with an
app I downloaded, but apparently I had it bass ackward (the arrow was
pointing up, which I now will assume means incoming). Got into the
water early at least, a little before 5 am. Discovered instantly that
my waders were leaking. Fished anyway, since I was there. Moved
"upstream" of the tunnel to a point where I could get a decent back
cast, then worked the cast across and slightly down, stripping in
after drifts of various lengths. Snagged or snapped off a clauser or
two, saw a racoon at the edge of the water, and just as I was
wondering how long I could stand in water-logged waders... smallmouth!
Saved the day. Not the striper I went there for but fun to catch.
Caught his brother too, about 15-20 minutes later. Having been skunked
a time or two at GP myself it was good to hook up with some
enthusiastic locals. I'll be bach. By the way, anyone have tips for
finding the holes in and patching old-school rubber waders?

[Alek]

this is a pretty foolproof tide chart
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/tide.cgi?tide=3268

[Carl Zmola]

On 10/17/2010 07:49 AM, Emmet wrote:
> enthusiastic locals. I'll be bach. By the way, anyone have tips for
> finding the holes in and patching old-school rubber waders?
>

If you mean really old school rubber, a tire repair kit does wonders.
Aquaseal is the stuff I use on neoprene.

Before investing in a patch of rubber waders, make sure they are not
startting to crack. A puncture is easy to patch, but once they start
drying out and cracking, they are ready for the trash. Finding the leak
on rubber waders is fairly easy if it happens above mid calf. Just roll
the wader down to where it starts getting wet and look for it. Mark the
spot on the other side and start looking. I have had luck looking for
the wet spot after fishing and marking it with a marker, so I could find
it again when I got home (that was on Neoprene).

Carl