Fletchers Shad, 4-29-15

[HJS]

I fished Fletchers from shore today, Wednesday, 4-29-15, 10:45am to 2:00pm. After over a week of high and muddy water, peaking @7.7', the Potomac had finally settled down to fishable conditions. I caught 34 hickory shad ranging in size from smallish to very nice sized females. Also caught 2 American shad ~18”. All were caught on a variety of standard shad lures and silver spoons with additional weight added to increase distance and sink rate.

LT-12:36pm, flow-4.5’, water temp @noon 58F, and water clarity pushing 2’.

[Runnin]

Were you yakking?

[Runnin]

Disregard, my bad . I should have read more carefully.

[DanMarino]

Nice job Howard! Sounds like better results than your last trip there.

[HJS]

Nice job Howard! Sounds like better results than your last trip there.

Actually, this trip was way better than my last 2 trips to Fletchers. The previous trip, Saturday25th, was 5 days ago. (No report was submitted on this trip). I went more so to check water clarity then it was to go fishing. As I suspected, water clarity was only 10” at best on Saturday and the river was too high to rent boats. In spite of muddy conditions I did manage to eke-out 2 hickories. Fishing muddy water is just not my thing. Yesterday was enjoyable fishing

[scott taylor]

Great catching Howard. 34 fish from the slippery banks of the Potomac is an impressive fishing.... I am guessing you had tired arms, but a "good" tired...
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[HJS]

I just had to fish Fletchers today, after all, today is National Star Wars Day. How could I dismiss the tagline of “May the 4th be with you”. That alone was strong enough inducement to make me go fishing, how could I go wrong with the “force” on my side. My bro-in-law and I rented a boat and set out. Fishing was terrible, almost at a dead stop. I caught 1 very small America and few dinky wperch and a herring, no hickories. My BIL caught maybe 4 small Americans and one big hickory plus some small wperch. That was it. Depressing as heck after 5 hours of fishing. Dunno if the shad run is over or what, seems a little early to me. We should have at least a week left. We shall see. BTW, I saw only scattered minor action from other boaters.