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#1 May-15-09 9:15PM
- Bob B
- Northern Snakehead
- From: Vancouver, WA
- Registered: Mar-21-08
- Posts: 193
Potomac, DC 05-15-09
Went up to Fletchers's area around 2pm to see if that stretch of the river is starting to get "fishable" again. There were not a lot of boats fishing there, only five or six of Fletcher's boats were out, plus a few others.
Current and debris were not too bad. The water was still a fairly low visibility type murky, but it wasn't zero visibility... so we decided to try fishing sabiki rigs for a while... which ended up being over 4 hours.
We caught 16 Herring (and lost quite a few that fell off when we tried lifting them from the water), 1 White Perch, and an Altantic Needlefish (snagged, not hooked in mouth).
The herring ranged from 9 to 14 inches. Took them home to freeze for use as bait on future catfishing trips.
Couple of the larger herring
Atlantic Needlefish
Go Fish!
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#2 May-15-09 9:23PM
- Dominion Dan
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Falls Church, VA
- Registered: May-24-08
- Posts: 1059
Re: Potomac, DC 05-15-09
wow that needlefish is bizarre! Is it common to catch them in the P'mac?
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#3 May-16-09 8:27PM
- Ernie
- Administrator
- From: Ashburn VA
- Registered: Feb-03-06
- Posts: 15643
Re: Potomac, DC 05-15-09
That might be a houndfish....incredible that you caught it way up there. Maybe there is a spawning run we didn't know about?? I have caught one in the mouth of the Pax river and one at Swan Pt., just above Cobb Island.
Nice job on the herring, we could have used a lesson today.
Time to go fishin' again!
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#4 May-16-09 10:57PM
- Bob B
- Northern Snakehead
- From: Vancouver, WA
- Registered: Mar-21-08
- Posts: 193
Re: Potomac, DC 05-15-09
If you do a Goole search for "Potomac Needlefish" you can find references to "Atlantic Needlefish" having a spawning run in the Potomac.
Go Fish!
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