Anyone fishing Fletchers tonight? (April12)

[Brandon]

Sitting here in the office at 23 and M, have rods in the trunk. Thinking about hitting it from shore tonight. Anyone else thinking of going or know if its worth it?

Brandon

[Keith83]

Oh yeah its worth it! I was a little up stream from the chain bridge yesterday evening and it was awsome!

[old Yeller]

Brandon, it was smoking this morning too. See my report. You'll need to try and catch the low tide if you want decent bank fishing downstream from Fletcher's.

BTW: I'm close to you, my office is at 31st & the C&O Canal

[Brandon]

Thx guys. I am going to give it a try. I have actaully never fished from Fletches area, always have fished from a friends house on the VA side right below the waterfall, I think its called the Water house or something.

Anyway, is there good parking at Fletchers or am I crazy for even asking?

B

[kwk]

You can park at Fletchers, but just don't plan on leaving until after rush hour is over. Getting back onto Canal Road ain't easy when it's one way outbound. And don't forget to be in the left lane heading out toward Fletchers so you can pull into the access road.

[Tissy Furnes]

I think you'll find decent fishing. The heart of the run is still to come.

[Brandon]

I missed the freaking exit tonight and since Canal ro is one way as kwk said I could not turn around. That turn comes out of no where and looks like there is only room for one car to go down that hill. Was I seeing the right place, my GPS said it was, but there was a car coming out and there did not look like there was room for me to go down that hill.

Thx

Brandon

[Keith83]

Yeah that was the right place. If you miss the exit your best bet I think would be to continue down and cross the chain bridge, turn around and go back, youl have to make a left where the road turns into a one way(i think only during rush hour or something), that will put you up on Macarthur and hang a right, go down a few blocks and hang another right(dont know the road name) that will take you back down to Clara barton pkwy where you will cross it and directly go down the driveway where you saw the car...go strait down and follow the road left and go into a tunnel under the canal and your there. Your just doing a big circle. But cars go in and out of that narrow driveway. Its always a little tricky.

[HJS]

Ah yes... the infamous Fletcher hairpin turn... or at least its a hairpin coming from the Beltway. Yep, thats the place. So, you could have continued on and parked in the lot just past Chain Bridge. Good fishing in the CB area.

[Keith83]

oh yeah...you could of parked at the chain bridge and fished...DUH[smile]