Fletcher's

[Flying Fish]

Fished a couple hours this afternoon with The Old Man at the point downstream of Fletcher's, low tide. It was slow but steady on fly rods, and maybe Fletcher's will be renting boats soon. Didn't see any of that smokin' action, though.

FF

[HJS]

After getting by fill of hickories in the morning, I walked about 1/2 mile upstream of Fletchers just to see whats going on. Many reported good action earlier but the bite slowed considerable from 1:00pm to 2:30. Thats when I packed up and left... I was whipped.

[Mako993]

I'll be heading over there on Sunday morning. Hope to rent a boat if they're renting, that is.

[AlexT]

[Q]Flying Fish originally wrote:
Fished a couple hours this afternoon with The Old Man at the point downstream of Fletcher's, low tide. It was slow but steady on fly rods, and maybe Fletcher's will be renting boats soon. Didn't see any of that smokin' action, though.

FF
[/Q]

Were you able to get to the rock? If not where did you fish? For the life of me I could not find a spot out there where I could get a backcast and get to the current seam.

I thought from looking at the Georgetown gage that high tide was going to be around noon at Fletcher's. The water was really high already at 6 am.

I did not see much happening anywhere down around Fletcher's this am, which is why I hightailed it north. Then again, there were very few people out fishing anywhere (other than netters...lots of netters) so it was hard to tell.

[Flying Fish]

Alex and HJS: I had guessed the tide would be low around 4-4.30 pm given a high tide in DC of about 10 pm. As far as I can tell, the water was still going down when I left at 6.10 pm. I'd never been to that spot before, so I don't know whether I could get to "the" rock, but there were plenty of places I could easily get to where I could easily reach the fast current with a fly rod and not worry about a backcast. I was wearing waders, although I didn't need to go through water more than about 12-18 inches, and then only once or twice.

In my experience on the river, any time and any tide can be good in any weather, although if I had to choose I'd probably look for low incoming on a cloudy drizzly day. I might stop by there for an hour or so after work today and maybe tomorrow. If they start renting boats soon, then I'll try that, although unlikely on the weekend.

FF