Power Plant In Alexandria, Va On The Potomac Shuts Down On Monday - 10/1

[Traveler2586]

The middle Potomac river is loosing a fishing site on Monday Oct 1st. The warm water discharge will be no more.

http://www.wtop.com/134/3060188/Alexandria-power-plant-to-be-close-for-good-Monday

[Hung up Paul]

Well that stinks! I've never been there, but a friend told me you could fish topwater there in the middle of January. I was hoping to check it out this cold season.

[tomustang]

Once I saw the thread title I though GenOn and Coal. I was right, they get slammed for polution at every site.

[Traveler2586]

I never could count on the plants out flow, it was an on-again-off-again location with SMB, LMB, cat's and perch. I've done better on the bridge pilings up river; but my best place is Penrod's Cove next to the north side of the WW bridge.

Thanks to Ken Penrod's efforts, old bridge decking from the original WW bridge was used to make fish reefs within the cove. This location has long been an important spawning ground and nursery on the river; unfortunately, the best hatchery on the Potomac (Smoot Bay) was destroyed by the construction of National Harbor (NH) just on the south side of the bridge; replacement of the original WW bridge with a larger multi-span bridge took it's toll on a fragile echo-system as well, and along with the increased boat traffic at the NH Marina the area may never recover.

If you've never fished the Potomac, plan on fishing it within our nations capitol, the photo ops are great.