muskalungee  08/29/2005 - 17:42  Friends of MDfishing.org  River    Every year on Columbus Day Jeff and I float the Upper Potomac from Bond's Landing to Little Orleans. This year the MDfishing.org membership has exploded and we've been trying to find a way to get everyone together to finally meet in person and do a little fishing. We've decided to open this trip up to all who are interested. No real details yet, we're just trying to gauge interest.

Here's what I need right now.
1 - If you're interested in the float
2 - If you have a boat to fish from (kayak or canoe)
3 - If you have room for another in your boat or an extra vessel to share with someone who doesn't have a boat

space inwaders  03/06/2010 - 11:12  Trip Reports  River    I'd been trying all winter when the snow allowed. The rivers are pretty high now, but not muddy. I haven't had luck cept for a 12" sucker on monday evening, caught on a 4" mister twister smoke/flake curly tail bouncing bottom.

I went down to my neighborhood spot on a major tributary to the potomac thursday evening. This place is 8-15' deep and had a pretty strong back-flow going. Once i switched to a 1/4 oz jig head and a gulp emerald shiner, twitching along bottom, it didnt take long to get my first bass of the year. First one was about 13 inches, about 10 mins later a nice fat 17 incher.

REB9  11/24/2009 - 19:23  Trip Reports  Essays  River    Started Thanksgiving vacation early this year. What to do, what to do? I know, head north to fish for some late fall smallies. I met Dave M. this morning and we headed north around 7:30AM. We were on the water around 9AM. Dreary, drizzle, low clouds, some rain mixed in. We started on the Western shore and Dave caught a nice 3 pound chunk. I plodded along and caught one on a teaser tube. We headed for the middle of the river working seam water in deeper areas. We kept picking up a fish here, a fish there, with no concentration of fish noted. We ended the day around 420PM with thirty nice fat smallies in the boat. Dave's first was the biggest of the day. We caught fish on jerkbaits, crankbaits and tubes.

Captwalleye  09/30/2009 - 06:27  Trip Reports  River    Took the day off on 9/25 and hit a river not so near.I knew the wind was going to be a factor,and knew that the water level was down.
I've never been to the particular area I fished when the water was down so low.Whoa! What a surprise.

The wind was suppose to be 5-10 mph well....I think it was more like 10-20.It overpowered the current easily and made for a very frustrating trip.

I threw a buzzbait and had a total of five blowups with two fish landed.Both were right around 10" long.I also threw a wacky jack on a circle hook.I caught my best fish of 14.25" on the first cast with it,and only had one other hit.The wind just got too bad.

Captwalleye  08/29/2009 - 19:56  Trip Reports  River    I hit a river near you on Friday morning and performed an introduction.A new friend to and a old and faithful friend.It was my maiden voyage with my new yak.I got a super deal on a mint T-100.It was already fishing rigged,and ready to go.So I did just that.

I went to a spot I really like that you launch from a stream mouth.It had rained earlier that morning,and the stream was running pretty good and the water looked like chocolate milk.I actually got paddling and fishing at around 7am.I wanted to get there earlier but...you know how it is.

I was campaigning topwater mostly all day.A black buzzbait and a Lucky craft Sammy.I had another rod with a Senko rigged wacky style but never really fished it too much.

Captwalleye  08/21/2009 - 19:57  Trip Reports  River  Roll Your Own    I actually went fishin'yesterday evening with my eldest daughter Samantha and her boyfriend Randy on a river near you.We were after you know what,and we did pretty good.At least two of us did.

We went to a spot that produces right regularly,and I set them both up in the two best spots to stand.I directed them as to where to cast,and what kind of retrieve to use. I just stood back and watched,and suggested little tips that could help them in their quest.

Well...I stood there for maybe fifteen minutse than decided that they had enough head start and I need to wet a line myself.A fella can only endure for so long.

Captwalleye  08/21/2009 - 08:27  Fishing  River    My eldest daughter's boyfriend Randy with his first Walleye.It was 26.5" and revived and released after this photo.

jackson  05/22/2009 - 04:32  Trip Reports  River    Finally got a chance to hit a "little river" yesterday. And it felt good! Water was about 3' which made it reasonable to paddle upstream to one of my better fishing "holes"! Seen lots of wildlife on way, deer, fox, muskrat, Bald eagle, all kinds waterfowl, and a heron rookery which was in full swing! The purpose of the trip, although short, was to catch a few smallmouth. However, it ended up being a slug-fest with whisker fish! As you will see in attached photos, there were specific baits which they liked! Ended up with at least 8 on these baits. On a secondary note did catch 6 brown fish, and 1 greeny!

ogbudha  04/24/2009 - 09:47  Trip Tools  River  Roll Your Own   

Ive been getting out alot lately and the river has been fishing tough. Solid quality fish..but the numbers are WAY down. Very concerning as Im not seeing the quantity of bites and chunky 2.5-3.5lbrs I normally see. I have however already seen 2 sweet CHUNKY C classes. One went deep into the 5's and the other fish went just under 5 ( boga showed it at 5 but Ill call it 4.75 to be safe)

One fish came off a burned jerkbait and the other off a tube in HEAVY flood waters.

My jets in the shop so Ive been bumming rides off a buddies jet and rowing my raft when water levels allow it.

Ill get the pics up as soon as Muskalungee hooks me up.

muskalungee  04/20/2009 - 12:29  Trip Reports  River   

Well, I finally broke the 20" mark. I must say I never thought it would happen. I've be *this* close so many times with 19"+ fish, and when this fish took my jerk bait I thought for sure I was going to come up short again. Then it happened, the fish took off towards the back of the boat and my line crossed with one of the Capt's rods that were leaning on the transom. "Great", I thought to myself. "I'm going to lose this fish." But as always, the Capt was cool and took care of it. He netted her and then said, "This might be it, Mike." And it was. 20" on the mark.

Overall, it was a real tough bite that day. We had to work hard for those fish, and found some in deep water and some in staging areas. We caught some on jerk baits, and some on plastics. I think the Capt caught a fish on every bait he threw except the inline spinner.

Here are a couple more pics of the fish we caught that day:

I'll post on the other drama of my weekend a bit later.
-Mike