MDBowHunter

I've been getting a couple every weekend on a vision 110,

Potomac river, pautuxent river, black water , tuckahoe just to name a few. You can also try any retention ponds within walking distance of an Asian market. It seems like they were the first places that held snakeheads at least until they flooded with rain and now they're here to stay.

I would go with a 5'6" med light with a 500 series reel. This is a combo that still to this day stays in my boat for pan fishing and bait catching. It allows even a smaller fish to feel huge to a kid, which will keep him or her interested. As said earlier the larger rod may be way more taxing then it's worth. Plus if your bank fishing you can find way more fishable spots using a shorter rod because of needing less room to cast.

Now that's funny.

Getting out of bed at 330 am, that sucks.

Sonar only works while your moving, if you standing still it will stall. Try moving a little and it should pick back up and look normal as soon as you start moving again.

As said by most don't worry as much about the color as presentation. Next time try skipping a jig, a TX rigged plastic craw or a hudd 68 under that dock and see what happens.

There was one caught on the eastern shore in Tuckahoe, and they just reported that they made it past Great Falls on the Potomac, they are here to stay...

I have the same type of situation going on where I fish and I've been drop shotting the back edge of the grass and doing real well. I've mainly been fishing flat grassy points, but the back edge of the grass is where the better fishing has been. Oh yeah I've been using roboworms the last few weeks, but I used dream shots today and they were all over it.

Again thanks a bunch guys for all the kind words. This whole experience has me rethinking how I go about things, as I am a hunter and I love to just go scouting. The only thing is I do a lot of these things alone and my wife's not always aware of where I am, but that is going to change. I also put together a small supply of meds that I need daily. Oh and I did manage to catch 4 LM all around 2lbs with what time I had left. I also managed to find a lot of offshore structure that was holding fish, and got waypoints on my GPS. Now I just need to go and fish them, but they look really promising.

I have 1542 Jon and I have my finder hooked to my bow mount battery and have seen no ill effects.

Thanks guys, it made me feel good to be able to help him. I never saw someone appreciate a bottle of Gatorade as much as this man. Right now he's at the hospital, the paramedics gave him IV as soon as he hit the ambulance.

Well I took a buddy out on the local reservoir with me today with hopes of hitting a section of the reservoir that I've never had my boat at. The whole way there my buddy kept saying lets stop here and fish and I kept telling him lets just get where we're headed and we' fish the whole way back. Going to this area was a gamble to begin with since I've never fished this area from a boat, and I have other areas that I know produce. So I had one voice telling me to go where I know the fish are and another one telling me to stick with plan A, which was scout out a new area. Well we get to where I want to go and we start fishing out on this point when all of a sudden we start hearing someone hollering something but we're not sure what they're hollering. Well after fishing across the point and getting closer to the person hollering, my buddy says to me is that someone in the water ( which is illegal here ). I then realize the guy is in water up to his chin and he's screaming help, so I get to him as fast as my 2-55 lb electric motors will take me. The whole way to him I'm thinking he must have his foot stuck or something, when we get there he begins to tell us. He's been lost there for four days now and hasn't had nothing to drink or eat for four days. He said he went there scouting out spots on the bank to fish from when he got real dizzy fell down and couldnt stand back up. He said he tried crawling on his hands and knees trying to find his way out, but was unable to get out so he laid there for four days before he seen us. Needless to say we pulled him into the boat and called 911 and made a plan of where to meet DNR Police. We took him to the closest easiest place to off load him on a basket so the paramedics could take him out on the back of a side by side. Come to find out he has severe high blood pressure along with some other medical issues that he needs daily meds for, but didn't have them. I don't know if he would've died there, but when we rolled up he had the fear of God in his eyes, he said he tried to crawl into the edge of the water. The only problem is he crawled off of a drop off and was immediately in 6' of water, and didn't have the energy to get out. So the moral here is don't run off into the woods with out a phone or letting someone know where your go cause that fast it could be you.

LV500, color just depends the time of year I'm throwing it

cast parallel to the edge of the mat and walk it back right along the edge of the mat.

First thing in the morning with a Sammy or other top water

Welcome from a fellow Marylander

I have to second that it's a juvenile northern pike

Power pro for me I tried the suffix but the coating sucks, so I'm back using power pro

Yup, I just decked out my 1542 for a reservoir boat and I ran all 6ga wire with 8ga plugs.

My first brand new all mine was a 6' ugly stick with a first ten Daiwa magforce reel. I actually caught my first bass on that rod, wish I still had it for conversation sake

Graphite all the way

Lucky Craft LV 500

4.5" roboworm nose hooked for me.