Fly Fishing the Potomac

Type: Nontidal
Region: Central
Location: Upper Potomac River

I fly fished this Saturday with my friend William Heresniak from Eastern Trophies Fly Fishing (http://www.easterntrophies.com/).

We hit the Potomac River south of the Algonkian Park and got into a bunch of Smallmouth Bass. Maybe since the temps have dropped, or because of the intermittent rain that day, they weren�t hanging around the riffles. We were able to find them cruising the flats and were taking them steadily on the Chuck Craft Popping Bug.

At the end of a large flat, I saw a very large mouth come up and sip the fly off the surface. I thought it might be a snakehead, but it ended up being a 10 pound catfish � quite a fight on a 6 wt and a memorable catch indeed!