salmon river fishing
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First post up on this board. I figured the best way to introduce myself was via a trip report. I have been “lurking” around for a month or so and have finally jumped in. The main reason i came was the awesome photo froum. Unfortunentally did not take the dslr out with me this time(don’t have a waterproof case yet) just took the p&s. Sorry for some of the crappy pics. the lens was a little wet from when i got soaked in the storm.
Fished the occquan resevoir today. The weather report looked spotty at best with scatterd thunderstorms throughout the day. But decided to take a chance since i really wanted to get out and fish. Packed the gear and threw the kayak on the car.
immediatly paddled out to my favorite area on this part of the resevoir.
threw the popper around a bunch to try for my favorite topwater bite but had none to be found. swithed it up to some subsurface flies but still to no avail. I turned around the shoulder to find this and decided it was time to haul butt and get the heck out of there.
it is a small crossing to get back to the launch ramp but the wind immediatly picked up and the small crossing that takes 2min became about a 5-10min crossing with whitecaps and going head into a heavy wind. the pictures don’t do the justice.
got back just as the thunder started up and pulled the kayak up. I decided to wait it out for about 45min and then got back on the water.
explored a new area and threw the popper around a bit and landed this one near some weeds in the water. the topwater stike nearly threw me off the kayak while i was standing up.
about 5min later then i was thowing the popper around near a fallen tree in the water that looked really fishy and landed this fish.
figured it was really small for the spot so next cast a threw the popper back in and landed this fish. my biggest bass on the fly so far which was huge for me. Just starting to figure out bass on the fly.
overall it was one of my better days bass fishing so far. just starting to get the hang of it.
WraySinclair, nice introduction and thank you for sharing your trip report. I have been trying to go to occquan resevoir but did not have any chance yet. Hop it will be soon! Nice photo you shared! Any more photos please share those too here!
