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While Curly and Jeff were fishing up at Fletcher's, Jamie and I hit the river down at Gunston Cove.
This was my 2nd time fishing this area. The 1s time, we went after white perch. This time we were after stripers....on a fly! We actually started by using conventional tackle to try to find them. That didn't work so we trolled for a while. That didn't work so we used fly rods. That didn't work so I moved us up river. That didn't work so we went back downriver towards the Greenway Flats. Maybe this would work since there were a few boats fishing the edges in 6-8 feet of water. I was heartened by the fact that we saw two guys catch stripers on rattletraps.
Jamie quickly switched over to a rattletrap and within a few minutes, I looked over and he was hooked up!!
He looked over and said, "get the net!". I did and he took the skunk off the boat with this striper!
A few minutes later, I got a nice hit and started to fight a decent fish but he got off....very frustrating. The bite shut down after that and we moved to a few different areas of the flats but could not score. We saw a friend of ours, Harry Shivonne, out there fly fishing but he didn't get any on that method. He and his partner did catch a half a dozen stripers for the day.
While we worked the flats some more, I got a bump and I promptly set the hook! This nice large mouth came aboard!
I was throwing one of George Lenard's Jig & Fluke
Now we each had a fish.....slow day for sure. Lots off lessons learned for my next trip down there. Even though we had a slow day, we had a good time out on the water!
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I wish the weather would have cooperated today...good thing we didn't make the call at 5 AM....it was not raining and it was calm then!
Anyway, I marked tons of smaller fish (not bait balls) in the channel off Marshall Hall. I was not rigged up to catch perch, shad or herring. There were lots of comerants too so the area was loaded with bait.
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Over at the north end of the Wall just up from the Officers club is a PRFC marker and a long slow point that goes north kinda. Yesterday at dawn a blitz occurred and the stripers where up to 35 inches. All caught on rattletrap.. 6 boated.
Second hand report from a reliable source.
Should have gone there this morning..
Capt Mike
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Capt. Mike...as always, thanks for the info. Being new to that area (where have I been????), I need to decipher the code. Is the officer's club on the VA (Belvoir) or MD (Indian Head Navy)?
I am coming back Friday and Saturday should the weather hold out.
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Va Ft Belvoir
38.687654, -77.121577
Google map it..you will see the point
Capt Mike
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Could you be a bit more specific?
Thanks...I will report next week's results!
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