North Branch of the Potomac, Garrett County, MD July 13-14, 2019

[ryansheehan]

Flow:400 CFS
Water temp 57-65
Air Temp: Low 60, High 84
Hatches: none

Made my second trip to Western Md of 2019.......pretty sad considering it's the middle of July. I had a blast and we covered a ton of water over the two days. There were no insects anywhere to be seen so it turned out to be an all nymphing trip. There were a ton of one year old wild rainbows in the system, probably caught 40 and hooked up another 40 of them between three guys. I have to think that is a result of all the water we've had, should be a great thing in a couple years. Not as many bigger rainbows compared to years past but we did get into a couple better bows and one big brown. Saw a bald eagle too, he got about 20 feet from a blue heron mid air, thought I was gonna see a showdown. Hopefully I will be back out again soon.

 

[larkmark]

Nice fish.

 

[Dave_W]

Good report and some interesting info about the RTs.
Nice brown!

 

[allthingsfishing]

Nice fish. Where does the North Branch become a warm water fishery?

 

[Wild_Trouter]

Ryan- That's a tank...nice job man!

 

[ryansheehan]

allthingsfishing wrote:
Nice fish. Where does the North Branch become a warm water fishery?

Depends on the time of year, but people start fishing for smallies below mcCool.

 

[10rman88]

Nice report and gorgeous Brown. Hoping to find some time to head out that way in the next week or two.

 

[mushumatt]

Nice man! The big boys in that neck of the woods have come out to play recently. They where on fire there for a month, then they disappeared. Since flows went up to 250 and slowly dropping on the lower they have showed themselves the last week+. 3-4 of us have lost big browns the last week in that area.