Conococheague, 08/01/23

Hard to believe it is August and I’m already tying flies for what will be a very busy fly fishing show season for me in 2024. I took a break today and hit the stream. The “Jig” is a blessing. You have trout in the upper end and good smallmouth fishing in the lower all within minutes of my house. It was sunny and mid-70’s and water was clear and 71 degrees. The “Jig” has some mid-teen smallmouth but mostly 6 to 12 inches. However, fish it with a 5wt. and small streamers and poppers and what a time you will have. I started with poppers, but only got some big fall fish to hit them. I switched off to streamers and did the rod get bent for two hours. I picked up 16, 6 to 11 in smallmouth. I have a bunch of spots to wade for small stream and river smallmouth. If you want some action for some warmwater give me a call. It can be either spin of fly gear.