Nice trip to the mountains

Had about 4 hours on Sunday to go fishing. I decided that I needed to
take advantage of it and headed straight to Shenandoah National Park. I
chose to fish White Oak Canyon because the description in Harry Murray's
book, described it as being easy access to parking and with the limited
amount of time I had, I didn't want to spend it hiking.

So I made it there around 6:00pm. I was hoping to get re an hour of
fishing for the native brookies in before the darkness ran me out.

As expected, the stream was made up of a bunch of series of small
waterfalls. It was a beautiful scene. I saw multiple hatches including
some kind of yellow stonefly looking thing, a mayfly, and a black
stonefly. They seemed to be interested in a small elkhair caddis which
worked very well. I also used a yellow elk hair caddis as I was hoping
the color would be a good enough imitation. It worked great. I caught
8 beautiful Brook trout in the typical small size. I missed probably 15
others that got off the hook or hit the fly and spit it out.

I could have stayed all night and actually semiseriously considered it.
But, I had to go to New York the next morning to take my daughter to an
Avril Lavigne show.

I didn't think that a rushed fishing trip like that could be fun, but it
was wonderful. I came back full of life and energy, counting the days
when I could sneak back up into the Park.

Good article on the upcoming Cicada "hatch" that should happen any day.

ESPN Outdoors

Ran across this nice little regional site the other day. It has some very nice pictures and info about streams in the area.

Riffle and Rise - Home

Still my favorite fly fishing shop in the area. I really enjoy the Angler's Club. I highly recommend it to people in the DC area.

Murray's Fly Shop