Peter Brookes | I’m just off the water from a fantastic float down the South Fork of Virginia’s Shenandoah River where my fishing buddy (and owner/guide at Page Valley Fly Fishing Service), C.T. Campbell and I landed 40-plus smallmouth bass on the fly in just a few hours.
I’m talking a catch-rate of 8-10 fish per hour.
While we didn’t boat any pre-spawn lunkers this time, we netted a large number of bronzebacks despite chilly spring temperatures, gin-clear water, cloudless, robin-egg blue skies–and my incredible ineptitude on the oars of C.T.’s drift boat.
It was a guide’s day-off trip–and my turn to row…
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