Rez Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 Went out yesterday for a few hours. Only a dink that exploded on a worm next to the boat. For a while had them located but my previous spots aren't producing. Guess I'll shoot for deeper. Quote
The Bream Reaper Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 If you're more accustomed to fishing shallow right now, keep an eye out for bluegill beds fishing. Â Quote
Huntrava Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 I'l be out at Occoquan tomorrow (Friday, 10 July). Will most likely be using football jigs and wacky worms. Maybe some live bait.  If you see a skinny-fat guy paddling a yellow kayak, give me a wave! I'll let you know how the bite is... Quote
Super User Choporoz Posted July 10, 2015 Super User Posted July 10, 2015 Good luck, Hunt. Looking forward to the update Quote
Huntrava Posted July 11, 2015 Posted July 11, 2015 So there's bass in Occoquan in case anyone is wondering. Â What they're up to these days? Â Anyone's guess. Â Here's my best analogy for today's bite: sometimes Bugs Bunny lets himself get caught by Elmer Fudd as a sort of professional courtesy. Â Most of the bites today were like that. Â I wanted to focus on soft plastics and drop shotting, but ended up using my old fallback--the spinnerbait. Â Â A fair number of fish were hugging the bottom at 20+ feet, but I couldn't get any of them to bite, even after dropping soft plastic on their little heads. Â Fish on my sonar suspended between 5-15 ft seemed to be fair game for the old spinnerbait routine. Â Caught a handful that way. Â Caught one on a wacky rig. Â Â Not the most productive day, but I wasn't expecting much. Â The challenge is forcing the bite... Â Â 1 Quote
novafx4 Posted July 12, 2015 Posted July 12, 2015 I was fishing the Occoquan yesterday out of Fountainhead Park. I caught one decent size bass on a texas rigged worm. Pulled him out from under a fallen tree near shore just upstream from the FH boat launch. Had a couple of good hits as well but only got the one into the boat. 1 Quote
The Bream Reaper Posted July 13, 2015 Posted July 13, 2015 We did well Saturday morning from about 6-11:30am. Kind of an anomaly though with the rain/overcast, but for whatever it's worth we were catching quality (2-3#ers) pretty regularly all morning in anywhere from 2 - about 7ft of water. They were chasing swim jigs and soft plastics. We stopped at every main lake laydown and point (even better if it was a point with a laydown) from FH to the old dam. Slowed down with a stick bait and picked off a giant up on a point closer to old dam in about 6 or 7ft of water if I had to guess. 1 Quote
Jblittles Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Launched out of bull run at 6 am on my kayak, saw and heard tons of fish jumping on the surface. And of course I forgot all my top water gear so I had to improvise and reel a creature bait as fast as I could onto and only caught one fish (3lbs). Fished for 5 hours after and caught nothing. I don't have  a fish finder so finding fish deep is impossible. Any tips? I went up river by the soccer fields and saw a dying carp and thats about it. Quote
rivafishn Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 I have been out there a lot more in the last week and a half.  I have a bunch of dinks and have caught a few decent fish, around the 15 to 17 inch range.  I fish out of a kayak, so I measure the length and don't typically have a scale with me.  I have been fishing more shallow though.  I need to work on using my electronics and finding some deeper spots for fish.  Is anybody finding fish in the various creeks or inlets?  It sounds like there are a bunch of fish on the points on the may section of the reservoir.  I still consider myself a big newbie when it comes to the reservoir, but i am trying to put it together.  I also typically fish the south end of the reservoir near the dam. Quote
quanjig Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 I tend to stay out of the creeks this time of year. Deeper main lake points are what I look at during the summer months. If I do ventur into creeks, they are the main ones and I don't go much further than the first third, simply because I am looking for the deeper fish. Doesn't mean you can't catch them in the creeks tho!! I'm looking to locate bigger groups of bigger fish!! Riva, the creek down by the dam, Hooes, is a great creek to dissect. Little bit of everything down there!! Quote
Super User Choporoz Posted July 16, 2015 Super User Posted July 16, 2015 Went out of Fountainhead for a few hours yesterday afternoon. Couple shorties is all. Missed a bunch of jig taps, but some of those were probably bluegills nipping at the trailers. I was really hoping to pattern deep fish, but the only time I thought I found some bunched up, it was really windy and I couldn't present accurately, nor feel anything. After the rains, it calmed significantly, but I couldn't locate anything. I was really focused on deep fish, so I didn't get into any creeks or bays. 1 Quote
Eddie-NoVA Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 I'll be headed out of Bull Run Saturday Morning with a buddy. Â Got a new (to me) boat this year. Â Come say Hi if you see me. Â Quote
rivafishn Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 Thanks Quan!  I have moved around a bunch, but feel like I still have plenty to learn.  I'll have to work on the main lake points some more.   Good luck Saturday Eddie and enjoy the new rig!  I plan on getting out saturday as well and will be down south, i run around in a blue and black kayak and I am a big guy, so if you scoot by that way say hi. Quote
quanjig Posted July 17, 2015 Posted July 17, 2015 I'll be out Sunday. If you guys get the gemco map, any "named" spot is really a community hope and worth a look, just to let you know!! Quote
mudkart Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 I'll be out Sunday. If you guys get the gemco map, any "named" spot is really a community hope and worth a look, just to let you know!! Hole #1 on the GMCO map has been good to me lately. Â And the spots in Hooes are just around the corner... Quote
quanjig Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 Hole #1 on the GMCO map has been good to me lately. Â And the spots in Hooes are just around the corner... Stay away from there! Quote
rivafishn Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 Looks like I definitely need to get better at deep water fishing.  I am moving around and trying different things.  I was headed towards spot 1 this morning when the storms blew in, so that squashed that.  Hopefully I can get out there and see what is going on.  I managed one decent one last night and only one dink this morning. Quote
Jblittles Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 I have no idea how to read a fish finder but is that a hump in almost 60 ft of water? Quote
quanjig Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 There are a couple of "gritty" areas nearby. It's all about how everything comes together. Couple piles, water that goes from 12 to 17 to 28 to 38 in about 2 boat lengths. Get the right wind and current, I've had magical days there!! Quote
Super User Choporoz Posted July 18, 2015 Super User Posted July 18, 2015 Normally, chasing shad boils turns out to be a mistake for me,but today, it was productive. After the rain, it was a feeding frenzy. Many bass achieving significant hang time. Most of my fish came on lipless and med divers pulled through panicky looking shad. Nothing over 3, however. Biggest bass I've seen there followed my lure all the way to the boat before peeling off. She was in a small bay just herding shad to the back and cleaning up. Jig was mostly useless for a change. Just one dink on it. And a huge turtle...shell was a good 14 inches across. Fortunately he shook of before I cut my braid....oh and a 5 in bluegill hooked in the mouth. First time I've done that with a full size jig 1 Quote
novafx4 Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 I pulled a really nice 2.5 lb largemouth into my Hobie PA yesterday evening. Texas rigged worm worked around a fallen tree did the trick. Quote
DJ 6_6 Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015  This appears to be sidescan sonar?  Can someone break it down with arrows as to what we see?   The center line is the boat/surface of the water and the images would be in portrait orientation (Middle to the right would be the right side of the boat, Surface to bottom) and the left side of the picture, reading middle to the left would be Surface, to bottom, correct?   Quote
Super User Choporoz Posted July 23, 2015 Super User Posted July 23, 2015 Finally got a Bull Run key. Been kayaking up river from there a couple nights after work this week. Not a lot of bites, but a few nice fish. One of which was my first smallie east of the Shenandoah.  Not too fat, but pretty long. I'm liking it up there. I went Mon and Wed, and all I met felt it was slow...but, of course, the word is that Tues was insane.....of course....LOL Quote
quanjig Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015 If you can schedule a day out there close to a change in the weather, chances are pretty good you will whack 'em!! Quote
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