Middle Patuxent River

Started at Old Columbia bridge and fished down river to Kinder Road. The 1st fish was a brown trout, and the second a rainbow trout. The river pictures show the spot were the 2nd trout was caught, upstream, down stream and the 70 degree slope 12 foot bank I had to ascend to continue fishing down the river. Finally, I caught a nice 11 inch smallmouth bass on a black stone fly nymph. There was a sunfish I caught before I caught the bass.

Fished yesterday up river and lost two rainbow trout at the cliff hole. One jumped a foot out of the water to wave goodby as he threw the hook. The second hit a nymph and just as I was getting him in the net, he shook his head and was gone. Some you win, otherwise the skunk. Today was a different day. The first trout took a black rubber leg Kaufman stone fly nymph. The last two were caught on a piched worm. The brown was a 12 incher while the two rainbows were around 11 inches. I think I now understand where they are likely to be active. More to come.

Caught a smallmouth and rainbow trout

Back to the Middle Patuxent after a busy morning fixing computers. This was a short fish. The river was about 6 inches higher than normal and somewhat milky in color. I caught three trout and lost two. The first trout hit a large black stone fly nymph. It was a 12 invh brown trout. I also lost the two trout using the stone fly nymph. I used a double rig with the top fly being a small emerger. After the bites quieted down, I tried the pinched worm and caught a 10 inch rainbow. Finally, on the last cast I hooked up with a great 16 inch Brown Trout. I think I have finally figured out where the active trout hang in this hole. It is not where I really expected them to be. Short fish, great fishing day.

Little time to fish so I hit the closest spot to my home on the Middle Patuxent. Started slow but caught a small bass, a fall fish and finally a trout.

Just a single trout in two days of fishing. It was a nice 12 inch brown trout. The day prior I only caught a small bass and avoided the skunk. Small bass and sunfish are beginning to bite so sometime soon there will be larger bass. In the Middlr Patuxent River the large bass are 14 inches. Regargless, they are fun to catch on a fly rod.

The initial rainbow trout hit the elk hair caddis on the top on the first ot second cast. Surprised me. Others hit more conventional trout magnet pinched worm combination. The rainbow trout are smaller but energetic. They tend to jump.

There are still biting. Ths spot is heavily fished by dinner seekers and netters. Making the fish wary helps them live there. I am working on using.sulphur flies. It seems the flies I most often see are sulphur like flies. Yesterday I saw several mayflies with fulltails. The thought is that I can develop a fly strategy that will find the fly pattern that for the day gets the most trout interest. Patterns that have worked are black and olive wooly buggers, olive wooly worms, brown and flash back pheasant tail nymphs, black pheasant tail nymphs, beige hares ear nymphs, small grey dry flies (grey wulff like), and black stone fly nymphs (there seem to always be stone flies around). Some very small nymphs have not worked. I have tried two fly rigs with the bottom fly (a small elk hair fly and an olive wooly worm) being the ones that caught trout. More to come.