No idea what the conditions were but simply changing weights and angles you stand at an annoying frequency till you feel you presentation is on bottom, moving slower than surface current but not hanging up, and setting pretty frequently and always at end of your drift could be a game changer
Meh. There are lakes I like much better for crappie than Sayers. Sayers certainly has a lot of fish, though. Other lakes consistently provide more size.
You are no doubt correct. I didn’t change things up enough. But it’s easy to get down on myself when I don’t catch anything.
Happens to everyone. Switching up split shots while nymphing alot and looking to bounce bottom and lag behind the stuff in the bubble line or on the surface in winter especially often works. Other thing that ya gotta remember is weather warmed up but water was prob still really cold when ya fished and that makes fish very reluctant to move much at all laterally to take. So don’t be too hard on yourself. Working good spots with a finer grid and lots of weight changes often helps if its the kind of apot where your not spooking them as winter holding spots often are.
I just can't justify wasting time catching panfish on the fly at Sayers. Yeah you can do it but with the amount of other types of fishing near by that are so much better for fly fishing...Only time I keep fish is from Sayers ice fishing. Hopefully we get some cold weather here at the end of the month or in February.
funkstown and downstream to beaver creek. Upper into Pennsylvania. Mainly any place that is open to the public, which is more Hagerstown and downstream.
