Cold Start to the New Year!

Where: Gunpowder River, MD. Masemore Road.

Date: 1/2/10

Conditions: cold. 25degrees. wind 20mph WNW Clear partly Cloudy Sky

Water Conditions: Clear and running at 210 cfs

Days On the Water in 2010: 1

Report: well i went fishing today! got to try out the new wading jacket! the temp. was about 20-25degrees and the wind was a @&#$*. so the wading jacket really helped out to cut the wind. Dropped my gloves in the water after 5 minutes of fishing. started off fishing a caddis larva with a zebra midge as a dropper. no takes on that after a few hours so i changed to a hares ear with a rainbow warrior dropper. Still nothing. even nothing in the bend pool. Did not see a single fish. Learned when your reel ices up and you fix it the drag will not work.

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Fishing the “Flats”

the gunny “flats” at masemore rd.

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Gunpowder Again!!!!

Last Saturday i headed up to the gunpowder again!!! It is such a cool fishery i is a little hard to fish because they are wild fish and are very smart but they are some of the most colorful brown trout you have ever seen! They have lots of blue on them!!!!

Anyways… I arrived at about 2:00pm and checked out what way happening in the fly shop and at the river and bought some more fly tying materials(you can never have enough!)  I went to fish the Masemore Road section where there is a nice long flat that holds some nice fish but are UBER hard to catch because they have so long to look at your fly…. I only got one taker early in the day on a size 16 caddis on 6x…. no other takers though! I went downstream to practice my Czech nymping a new tactic i am learning that is used often in competition fishing and all the European powers use it! I was fishing a little deep pool that was running fairly well! and hooked into one fish that seemed a decent size but got off(they all do lol). So it was nearing 5pm and the sun was going behind the mountains so i went back to fish the flat right in front of the parking lot to see if i could get any fish to rise! I had a few rises to my size 16 caddis but could not get solid hook sets. Then it seemed they were rising to some midges (possibly tricos but i think a little late for them) i tied on 7x with a griffis gnat with no takes so i switch back to the caddis seeing a few in the air. I really needed to go so i decided what the heck and shot a 60 ft. cast upstream and sure enough i got a rise and a solid hookset! now i am dealing with an 8inch fish with like 60 ft. of line out. I was pretty much dragging the fish while trying to pick up the line fast. I got him in and he was full of fall colors. Wish i got a photo but i did not…  sorry……

 

Happy Veterans Day

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Skunked…..

Go Skunked at the gunpowder today… Well i got my wish for rain… 3+ days of it….. normally the gunpowder runs at 30-130cfs… it was running about 400cfs hooked one fish on a green weenie but he got off. Fish seemed to be away from the main current in the back eddies and such… Fished lots of streamers.

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Gunpowder River (pic heavy)

Well I decided to fish the gunpowder again! It was not looking to be a good day with a cold front coming through and then they released water and it went from 30 cfs to about 150 cfs. And there was rain in the forecast.  It turned out to be a great day a friend and myself totaled about 18-20 fish total in about 9 hours of fishing.  We started out the morning at about 9:30 and i was fishing a long riffle that was about 2 feet deep. I used all types of nymphs and streamers and could not get anything. Then i went downstream some to where the riffle opened into a pool that was pretty deep. There were several rocks in the pool that i knew there had to be trout stacked up on. I fished it with several nymphs but no takes so i tied on a green weenie and started getting hookups immediately. Got a few 8″ and a 10″After i caught a few from the pool they would not bite anymore so i moved on downstream with no luck. After lunch we went downstream some more and a fished a beautiful picture perfect pool with some streamers (slump busters, sculpins) with no luck so i tried some nymphs (caddis larva, caddis pupa, BH prince nymph, pheasant tail, etc.) with still no luck so i tried the green weenie with no luck. Figured some canoes spooked the fish in the pool. fished the riffles below it and hooked into 2 decent brown trout 8″ but both came off.  Fished some more riffles that people before us had fished with no luck. Came to a log jam

I switched to a slump buster streamer and fished through here and had one take from a nice brown trout about 12″ was my guess but no hookup. Switched to a sculpin with still no luck so I went downstream from the logjam and found this picture perfect run

I fished it with some nymphs with no luck!?!?!? but tied on the greenie weenie and got some really nice fish out of it. First drift through i was watching the leader and all the sudden it stops moving so i set the hook and pull this nice fish out

landed several other fish in here on the green weenie.

At about 4oclock we went to another location on the gunpowder. We got there at about 4:30 and managed a few rises but no takes to some sz. 18 green and brown elk hair caddis by 5:00 it started to rain and I switched to a sz. 18 parachute blue winged olive.  got this fish out of a small run with the bwo parachute

It started to rain more and more and the fish started to turn off so at about 6:30 we called it quits. It was a great day and i tried out the new rod and reel which are so sweet.

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Gunpowder River 8-15-09

A few days ago after seeing a concert and getting home at 11:30 pm i had to get ready to go fish the gunpowders trico hatch the next day. Getting up at 5:30 and heading off on our hour and a half drive to the Gunpowder River. Arriving at 7:45 ready to fish I just watched the stream looking for signs of the Hatch. There were no rises until about 8:15 when i finally found the right trico pattern I landed a small brown trout about 6″. Most of the Brown trout seemed to be in pods because of the extremely low water.

I was fishing a small flat. There was a fallen log under water that made a little riffle where some rainbows were stacked up. Landed a few rainbows there. The Trico hatch ended at about 11:30. Managed to land a big sucker on a BH Hairs Ear. Later in the day I was able to land a few fish on a Beetle Pattern. The fishing was ok but it was very tough because of the low water. It was essential to be stealthy and stay behind the fish. The fish were in pods and when you spooked one of the fish you spooked the whole pod.

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