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Three thousand casts...but a beautiful blue bird day with low humidity!

Dan, Leon and I splashed my boat at Pohick in search of Leon's 1st ever snakehead. Leon fishes the bay mostly....he keeps a boat at Breezy Pt.

Low tide was around 8 AM so we could not go deep at Pohick. We fished a channel and Dan was able to pick up a LMB to get the skunk off the boat.



That was the only hit so after a bit we decided to make a move towards Douge Creek. But where did the grass go? After a few short minutes, we realized that without grass, our snakie chances were minimal =so we made a longer move.

BTW, we threw top water for 90% of the time....

Once in Belmont Bay, we went to my favorite creek and the water was clear. It was an aquarium. We could see tons of bass and double that number of cats.

Towards the end of our stay there, we got a few hits but we witnessed a massive hit on Leon's frog as a big snakie slammed him. He waited two seconds but the snakie torpedoed out of the water and spit the hook. It was a sight to see and I would bet that Leon will think about it all night long. As a matter of fact, on the way home, he just blurted out, "man, I can't believe I missed that one!".

It was starting to get late and we decided to head back to Pohick as it was now high tide. We got back deep and had a few hits.

At one point, Dan had a snakie follow and we all watched in amazement as the NSK came close and then made a 90% turn into the weeds. We could see the white's of his eyes.

Man, what a great species. No snakie luck for us today but I promised Leon another time out for a try for his 1st snakie.

Dan caught this guy as well.



I can't explain the slow fishing. the bass in the creek would just cruise by us and barely look at our offerings.

Good day with two very good fishermen....