Monday, June 20, 2022

Finally photogenic fish

Potomac river smallmouth
First smallmouth this morning.

potomac river smallmouth
Looks really fishy but not much activity.
The results over the last two days of fishing -- this time near Fifteen Mile Creek -- were similar to Friday's exploits.  Caught some dink fish, although these stuck around to have their picture taken.  I only took two pictures of fish.

Similar conditions from Friday.  No rain or anything, but the weather was much better, and the water was flowing low and clear.

Luck in this area has been hit or miss.  There was one time I caught 10 fish over two days, similar to yesterday and today.  Actually, other than that, it has been mostly miss.  Usually the thing to look forward to fishing this area is trying to spot a muskie lurking in the creek. 

potomac river smallmouth
First and only smallmouth yesterday.  They almost
always seem to get hooked in the corner of the jaw.

Fished the exact area as in 2017 (linked in previous paragraph).  Looks really fishy with protruding rocks and slow eddies but could only muster a smallmouth and a sunfish yesterday, and two smallmouth this morning.  The two this morning I think hit the Reaction Innovations Little Dipper because it basically landed on their heads, and they were angry for being disturbed on such a peaceful morning.

The smallmouth from yesterday was also tricked into biting a Little Dipper.  The sunfish was landed on a Heddon Zara Puppy as it followed it out of a slow eddy trying to slurp down the forward treble hook.

Still, it's better than a good day at work, and way better than the best day at my previous job (which I left on Thursday).


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