Jedwards36  12/18/2011 - 10:28  Monocacy    Ok, i have been fishing the monocacy river for a while. Ive noticed only small fish. The biggest ive seen is 14 inches. I fish in 6-7 feet of water. What am i doing wrong?

Jedwards36  11/19/2011 - 17:51  Black Hills  Clopper  Farm Pond  Impoundments  Liberty  Loch Raven  Monocacy  Potomac  River  Whittier    How has this year of fishing done? What would be your best fishes this year( or so far for the musky chasers)?

Jedwards36  09/09/2011 - 21:04  Monocacy    Anybody know what will clear out fastest before it's time to put the rods up, or a good smallie pond or lake near Fredrick, thanks.

plad99frc  09/08/2010 - 14:37  Trip Reports  Monocacy    Over the past month or so ive spent at least a day every weekend doing a float on the monocacy. Ive done all the water from creagerstown park to Pinecliff. Overall i was very happy with the fishing numbers. On a few trips i caught upwards of 20 fish, not to bad considering the low water levels. Its a very "neat" river when you find some deep holes and there are some suprisingly big fish in that little river. This was my first season fishing out of a yak and i look forward to getting out on the water this fall some more before winter comes. I submitted a couple pics too. If anyone else ha

plad99frc  06/09/2010 - 14:43  Boating  Monocacy    Gonna do some fishing out of my jon boat this weekend on the monoc for the first time. I was gonna put in at the walmart and go to Pinecliff. Anyone thinks theres a better route in the frederick area? Also, if anyone who has taken a similar rig out on the monocacy got any advice. Ill be using a small trolling motor. Thanks!

plad99frc  05/04/2010 - 22:29  Monocacy    Im new to the Monocacy (up around rt26) and decided to do some cat fishing tonight. I used chicken livers and fished what appeared to be a deep hole from the bank. As soon as it got dark the action went off. My first fish felt like it had some solid weight to it. i got it in by the bank and instead of trying to get in out the water right away i though id shine some light on it to see what i was workin with. It broke the line before i could get a look. Not too long later i set the hook on another fish that i eventually lost but it was definitely good sized. I finally landed one not long after that was around 23 inches. The action slowed down and bit and being a work night i was not going to spend too much time out. For the hour that i put in fishing i was amazed at how much action i got. Anyone else have good luck on this part of the monoc for cat fish? Any idea how big these cats get and what the best baits are. Im very happy with the potential so far and cant wait to get back out there!

Steve826  08/15/2009 - 12:05  Trip Reports  Monocacy  Roll Your Own    Wet waded the Monocacy this morning with my dad from 8 to 11:30. Fishing was very slow. My dad caught 1 small smallmouth and I caught 2 small bluegills. The stretch we fished had some decent looking water but we just couldn't seem to get bit? The water felt nice though, we waded up to about mid-thigh level with no problems. Stumbled around a bit on some flat rocks but nothing too bad. Well while we didn't catch much of anything at least we kept cool in the river and there's always next time I suppose. Just thought I'd share.

hookedup  09/17/2008 - 17:13  Monocacy    Hello this is my first time posting. I have visited this site for a while now but never posted so here goes. I had planed on taking the boat out today, (smalljaw's old boat )but plans got scrapped. Instead I waded the monocacy. It turned out to be a great day with 10 smallies "hookedup". Two sunfish, one of which swallowed a treble hook whole. That was a fun surgical procedure. As far as I could tell it was ok when I released it. Countless number of misses and spit hooks. The fish were on today. All in all was a great day for me. All fish were caught on a crank.

Steve826  06/14/2008 - 14:00  Impoundments  Monocacy  Roll Your Own    Got up at 7 and was at the Monocacy at 8. We tried grubs in white and green pumpkin, and live nightcrawlers, with no bites. There are a ton of rocks at this spot so we got snagged so much we finally left. Headed over to a nearby area of the Monocacy and stayed for about 5 minutes, until we realized there was no way we could land a fish because the bank was so muddy with quicksand-like mud: I slipped in it and got stuck and it was hard to get out. Finally we headed over to the pond we've been fishing lately. Settled down and caught a few sunfish. I got 4 and my dad got 1. All were bluegills except the last one I caught which was a pumpkinseed (I think, it had orange spots on the side.) It was insane, the second you would toss your nightcrawler or corn into the pond, just a few feet off shore where you could see the bream sittin, they would bite. Half the time though, they would take your bait.

Reel Lunker  06/08/2008 - 11:37  Friends of MDfishing.org  Monocacy  Roll Your Own    Went for a float yesterday down the monocacy. The day was beautiful, the water was muddy with zero visibility which made fishing tough. What makes fishing even tougher is when you lose both of your rods when you tip your kayak. When floating through a shallow swifter area, I paddled lazily through, got turned sideways and tipped my kayak. Being stupid, I had both of my rods sitting in the rod holder with no protection from losing them. I ended up losing both of my rods in waist deep water. Luckily all my other gear was secured to the kayak. I will try to go back in a few days when the water clears up to see if I can atleast find or feel around to hopefully salvage the rods, although I don't have my hopes up. Could turn out to be an expensive donation to the river. Lessons learned: Secure all fishing gear to the kayak, and make sure all rods are in and secured in their respective rod holders. Invest in some rod leashes. Finally, dont stop paddling through moving water. (Unfortunately, these are all lessons I have read about from other peoples misfortunes.)