TheDuder  11/16/2008 - 10:04  Trip Reports  Potomac   

Yesterday (11/15/2008), Muskalungee and I decided to take a quick trip to a river near you to test out his remodeled trolling motor and get our lines a little wet. Little did we know that our lines wouldn't be the only thing getting soaked! The morning started off a little slow, neither one of us were really in a rush. When arrived at the river, about 7:30 am, the sky was overcast and I remember commenting, "ahh I think all the rain is gone for the day." hahahah man was I wrong. However, this was when the fun started. Musky dropped in the trolling motor but it was taking in water and stopped working. After about 2 hours of messing with it, musky decided to try another method. At this time, the rain began. This was no ordinary rain shower! With the winds help, the rain was horizontal and blowing at approximately 25 mph! Yikes, it was a good thing the air temp was in the 60's, otherwise I think our "quick trip" would have been a lot shorter! We ended up with a bunch of small brownies, 5 walleye, and a fall fish. It seemed that we had more things going wrong then right, however our spirits were high and we had a great time fellowshipping with each other. and the fishing wasn't too bad either!!

REB9  09/29/2008 - 18:00  Boating  Essays  Potomac    Hello fellow Potomac River runners.

Looks like we will get a good flushing out of this weekend's rain.

The Hancock river gauge is still climbing. She was steady at 3 feet on Friday and she is now climbing through 5 feet.

The Williamsport gauge was below 2 feet and she is climbing through 3.5

The Point of Rocks gauge was below 1.5 and she is climbing through 2.6 feet.

Hopefully, with the surge, the grass will flow downstream with it!. Now, not that I don't like grass, but.....

I think I will plan a feeshing trip for Friday..... Any guesses on where the reever will be at POR??

smalljaw  09/12/2008 - 21:28  Trip Reports  Potomac   


Well, it has been a long time coming and the boss reminded me today that I should have done this a long time ago. In early August I turned 45. I had a wonderful time on my birthday thanks to my wonderful wife. She got a babysitter and we got to spent our first trip alone in the boat. Bought Tina a 5 day fishing license and we hit the river. Great time together and she was a champ out there. Got a few smallies but the big fish of the day was her Walleye!! Yes, a walleye. She did drop a rod overboard and I did have to go swimming to no avail but, with her luck, the rod was resurrected by the anchor rope.

After fishing we went to a couple of real good redneck places and finished up with some chili dogs at The Hard Times.

A couple of pics attached. I sure do love that woman.

PS.. She does remind me that, once again, she outfished me just like on our FIRST DATE. The fish I am holding is her Walleye since she couldn't hold it up to the camera properly :)

--Smalljaw

smalljaw  08/30/2008 - 19:39  Trip Reports  Potomac   


Fished with my son Sam this afternoon. Launched out around 2:30pm. Ran upriver to a couple of guys waving from a boat. Looked like Muskalungee's boat so I ran over to say hi. Got a little closer and realized it was someone else's boat so I turned and kept heading upriver. A little later I got a text from TheDuder wondering why I had snubbed him. Sorry Duder...didn't realize it was you or we would have kept coming over.

Anyway Sam and I caught a bunch of fish...including smallies, greenies, rock bass, bluegills and the elusive Muskalungeeeeee!! My first ever. Got him on a buzz bait. Sam gets credit for the photo.

Had a great time enjoying Sam's company and some water in the river finally.

Smalljaw

smalljaw  08/20/2008 - 21:16  Potomac    UP at 1.22...this is killing me. I think we need a hurricane...whaddya all think?

I am fishing this friday be damned. I will have a seat open. No guarantees on fish counts but I will be fishing. Thinking about a push off around 3pm or so.

ogbudha  08/15/2008 - 07:10  Trip Reports  Potomac  Roll Your Own    Launched yesterday and fished the Lower Potomac with a hard core bass tourney buddy o' mine. We fished out of my jet rig. Huge flats of grass,spadderdock and a jet rig just dont mix! :)
We ran all over Mattawoman, Chicamux,Leesylvania,Quantico, Smoots, Nanemoy, and Occoquan (sp)
Most of the fish came out of Occoquan.
Fished frogs,buzzbaits,senkos and jigs.
I focused on grass lines near drop off and isolated pockets of grass. I had a decent bag of fish and had my limit with 1 hr. I ended up with 2 dozen keepers.
My best five fish weighed in a little over 12 pounds total weight
This trip ended my streak of a 5 pound fish coming int othe boat. Prior to this trip I was on a long long streak of pegging a 5 poundr a trip. I did miss 2 fish....one followed my swimbait to the boat and took a swipe at it....I got a great look at her and guestimate around 6.5 to 7 pounds....she was a beast and left a heck of a swirl and wake when she missed the bait. I also had a decent hookup in the spadderdock on a jig...felt very nice.

TheDuder  06/28/2008 - 09:21  Trip Reports  Essays  Potomac    Hit up the Potomac river yesterday with Dhart and saw something I have never seen before that confused me beyond belief. Who ever gets mad at people when they gut hook a fish must relax just a bit. I caught a fish around 13 inches long that had a 1/4 oz tube hook coming out its anal. To mine and Dhart's surprise the fish was healthy. I wanted to get a picture of it but we were too concerned with the fish's health that we pulled out the hook prior to the picture. (I do have a picture of the fish and a picture of the tube hook separate though) ha. Anyways just thought I would post this to let all those who gut hook the fish do not fiddle with the hook but to just cut the line and release the fish. Im sure the fish doesn't always make it but it was neat to see some do. ok fishing report. We were out from 5 p.m to sunset. Had a slow start so I changed to the old faithful. We had 20+ in the boat, largest being around 14 inches. MIssed a bunch of fish. (I caught the doug disease. hahaha) Some of the fish we missed were hogs. I had a monster blow up on my surface lure that scared me and dhart senseless. Bet you can't guess what kinda surface lure it was!! haha Anyways.. great time spent by all.. Thanks again Doug.

smalljaw  06/22/2008 - 04:59  Trip Reports  Potomac   

Helen has been hounding me for a Barbie fishing rod. So I finally caved in and got her one. Of course, after that I had to take her fishing with it. Debbie found out that we were going and wanted in on the action also. No problem, Zebco 202 combo and we are off and running. Put in at a river near you to do some bluegill fishing with nightcrawlers. Isn't that how everyone learns to fish? Anyway, the action started pretty quickly with, surprisingly, Debbie landing her first smallie ever!! The action continued on for a couple hours along with some swimming too. I had a GREAT time just kicking back and watching them smile and have fun. Great day for Daddy...and I think the girls had a good time also.

Note the PFD's :)

Smalljaw

TOOBIGTOYAK  06/15/2008 - 09:04  Potomac   


It looked like it was done... it wassn't. What a storm. We had to get off the river for a while and let the storm pass. We were going to just head out and beat the next storm but it looked clear???? So we decided to drift down stream and see what we could get into. We ended up throwing top water and Hunter reluctantly switched too a spinner bait from his little swim bait, Now he has a new favorite lure. We caught a lot of dinks, but the cool thing was we each caught a bigger fish and of course who do you think caught the biggest... Hunter, he is a good fisher men these days. I submitted the pics to Muskalungee and I want to clear something up before it gets started Hunter is not wearing a PFD we were anchored and sitting still he took it off to try and dry out a little and as soon as we were ready it went back on. Any way we got done at dark and went to the campground because Hunter wanted to meet some of you guys and he met Ogbudha and he thought that was cool. It started off rough from truck problems to a traffic jam and all the rain, it turned out to be an awesome night. Sorry we didn't see more of you guys, maybe next time. See Ya Too Big

TOOBIGTOYAK  06/11/2008 - 07:41  Potomac  Roll Your Own    Got out early Tuesday AM, Took my boat to the big river. The ramp was tough and with a prop had to power through the silt between the islands hit the river and went upstream to the falls never hit a rock, it seems a lot farther when your not flying up in the jet. Got a few nothing huge, did get one decent one around 14 inches or so on the x rap. Mostly in the moving water behind structure was where most of them came from. A lot of dinks I guess the summer bite is upon us. Had a good time, nice to go solo once in a while. That won't be the case this weekend though hope to see you all Saturday evening.