Sadly, I had to take this book off the market. Private property owners shut down access to the Rapidan at the end of Richards Ferry Road.
Tragic! It only required allowing folks to cross around 30 yards in a remote corner they owned to get to the public property. Since fishing the Confluence was the key feature of the book, I removed it from sales.
But! If you are interested in Trout Fishing on the Rapidan, I have a book covering that. See the sidebar!
The most detailed guide on Wade Fishing ever published for the Rapidan River
The Rapidan River is an angler’s dream that can be fished year round since the watershed includes both tough, cranky smallmouth bass as well as aggressive mountain brook trout. Following the precedent set in his other CatchGuide books, Steve starts the story at the mouth of the Rapidan where it slams into the Rappahannock at the smallmouth bass fishing heaven known simply as “the Confluence” and ends above the old presidential retreat at Camp Hoover high in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
There are many different access points between those two locations that open up miles and miles of river. Pictures, coupled with maps, tell the story. Using them, put your experienced angler’s eye on the water and make your own judgment before you drive to any particular location. In the Internet age, pictures and words are not enough. The book includes GPS coordinates you can use to obtain customized directions via the Internet or put the coordinates into a GPS receiver to guide your day on the water.
Beyond wade fishing, Steve also discusses each access point in terms of its compatibility to launch a canoe or a kayak. Once in the water, floating anglers will be well served to use this guide to quickly move to the good spots and not waste time floating over unproductive water. In particular, they will find the detailed coverage that covers every foot of the river from Elys Ford all the way to the Confluence exceptionally focused and useful.
Kindle version also available from Amazon
The coverage of the smallmouth section of the Rapidan is detailed, thorough and comprehensive …. and will probably take you to places you did not know you could fish! There is much, much more to the river than just the section at Elys Ford!
The trout section starts at the Graves Mill entrance to the Shenandoah National Park and extends all the way up to and beyond Camp Hoover. Let the pictures tell the story. The book includes detailed coverage of the Staunton River!
