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#1 May-14-20 3:04PM

drxfish
Patagonian Toothfish
From: Sterling
Registered: Jan-04-14
Posts: 2975

5/14/20 Upper Potomac

I was not planning on going out today, but saw the weather looked good and my wife said sometimes the trips I do not plan are the best.  So I headed for Whites Ferry and got on the water around 10am.  This is what the ramp looked like:

https://i.imgur.com/08HxxPb.jpg

I started near the Ferry on the VA side.  I got no bites for a long time.  I decided to float down and worked the island.  After I ate my lunch, I put a jointed fluke on an underspin hook and finally caught my first fish since January!

https://i.imgur.com/9lVqgSJ.jpg

I was pumped.  I floated down some more and started working shoreline eddies with a weedless ned rig and hooked a good one.

https://i.imgur.com/gkFShYX.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/FKG201s.jpg

It was just shy of 16 inches, but thick!  A couple casts later in the same spot, I hooked another.

https://i.imgur.com/qqgpQBw.jpg

And one more before I left that spot.

https://i.imgur.com/iIDT9oW.jpg

After that I floated down to the next eddy and got one before I floated out.

https://i.imgur.com/Otw4CVd.jpg

It was 13", but hefty.

No more bites and I headed back to the Ferry by around 4:30pm or so.  5 fish total and I had the river to myself until about 3pm or so.  Saw 2 other boats.


Always wishin' I was fishin'

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#2 May-14-20 3:18PM

Ernie
Administrator
From: Ashburn VA
Registered: Feb-03-06
Posts: 15564

Re: 5/14/20 Upper Potomac

OK! There ARE some smallies in the river. Well done!


Time to go fishin' again!

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#3 May-14-20 3:34PM

T.
Patagonian Toothfish
Registered: Sep-30-09
Posts: 930

Re: 5/14/20 Upper Potomac

Nice!  I had planned on fishing the Goose Creek area of the river today, but an online work meeting changed that.  But tomorrow I'm getting out somewhere.

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#4 May-15-20 7:30AM

Houli
Northern Snakehead
From: Leesburg, VA
Registered: Dec-09-10
Posts: 252

Re: 5/14/20 Upper Potomac

Nice! I planned to get up a wade fish goose early this morning but played poker until 2am ..... at least I came away with some extra cash for the tackle kitty.

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#5 May-15-20 8:31AM

drxfish
Patagonian Toothfish
From: Sterling
Registered: Jan-04-14
Posts: 2975

Re: 5/14/20 Upper Potomac

2AM, young uns....


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