space inwaders  07/10/2009 - 20:46  Potomac  Roll Your Own    i've been going alot lately with not alot of fish. Tons of people, everywhere I go, and that means poor fishing, but they love being out maybe almost as much as i do=)

I lucked into a quick evening trip on a jet a week ago or so, with Dan of www.fish&floatadventures.com, besides scoping out a few areas for an upcoming client, Dan really wanted to show me a couple areas i could hit from the shoreline and the crazy idea was wallys in the light of day.

We checked out a few places, many of which i had hiked to before, or had been meaning to. The one very productive area was interesting because the bank and bottom seemed muddy, 3-5' deep on the graph in the boat. Really not where you'd expect to find em.

This spot was holding fish, we landed several short smallmouth, and a few 19-21" wallys.

I went back the next day and found the area from the shore and practiced a different way to retreive a jig. My efforts were well received with a 27"er taking a 3" bright green curly tail within few minutes.



Annie and i kept at it because we KNEW there's fish in the area. A 21"er followed about an hour later. Unfortunately annie didn't get one, but she did catch a little smallie and a gill' at a spot we fished earlier.

-steve 'the pilk'