Nervous with excitement, I rigged up a couple of nymphs and flipped them into the current. I chose to enter the water at a gradient break with a high velocity churn of boiling water that spun into a deep, dark hole. Marking the good spots in my mind’s eye, I eventually climbed down the steep grade and popped into the water.
It’s the trout equivalent of a sandy bottom for bass. I knew from prior experience that a flat bottom, void of cover, is not the place that you will find trout. The structure of the bottom alternates between being densely packed with rocks and boulders to transition into flat, seamless, barren solid expanses of rock. As I walked, I kept a wary eye on the river to try and uncover the specific locations that would be better than others. The rail bed that parallels the river (exactly like the North Branch of the Potomac) was the high-speed avenue of approach I used to move quickly. In addition, I doubt that anyone who ventures this far into the backcountry would be interested in slaughtering and hauling out a bunch of fish. This location marks the start of the catch and release special regulations area that runs from here all the way upstream to the FR47 access point.Īfter looking up and down the river – and being impressed with what I saw – I decided to walk downstream for a mile heading out of the catch and release area given my preference for working upstream. There are three primary access points to the Cheat River and FR210 is the northernmost of the three. It was cold in mid-October with the air temperature pushing 45° as I bumped down the rough road into the Shavers Fork of the Cheat on FR 210.
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