Maryland's Who's who!

[Traveler2586]

Washington County is turning one for all kinds of fishing. The woman had another outstanding afternoon. Smallie was 4.2lb from berkley digi scale and the trout we estimated about 22 inches.

Very nice catch

[tylerdanielmoser]

I now live in Falling Waters WV (right across the bridge from Williamsport MD) But warm water does flow in Wport because of the power plant right next to the bridge that goes over the Potomac. I consider myself a MD person but WV has some good spots for bass and crappie. Sleepy Creek Lake is a great spot and not too many outsiders in MD know about it. Its a 200 plus acre public lake located in Hedgesville WV. TONS of structure and TONS of lilly pads. I go up with my father and brother we each catch around 10 keepers each trip up there in about a 3 hour span. Check out Sleepy Creek. No gas motors either very clean place! Biggest bass I've seen out of Sleepy Creek was caught by my father a 6.8lb largemouth.

[tylerdanielmoser]

I now live in Falling Waters WV (right across the bridge from Williamsport MD) But warm water does flow in Wport because of the power plant right next to the bridge that goes over the Potomac. I consider myself a MD person but WV has some good spots for bass and crappie. Sleepy Creek Lake is a great spot and not too many outsiders in MD know about it. Its a 200 plus acre public lake located in Hedgesville WV. TONS of structure and TONS of lilly pads. I go up with my father and brother we each catch around 10 keepers each trip up there in about a 3 hour span. Check out Sleepy Creek. No gas motors either very clean place! Biggest bass I've seen out of Sleepy Creek was caught by my father a 6.8lb largemouth.

[basser89]

Welcome to THE boards Tyler!

Wow! Sleepy creek isn't a name I've heard in several years! I used to fish it on and off. Never really done well size wise there.

Haven't really done well at the power plant in Williamsport in a couple years either. Water levels were either crazy high or just the opposite or there's been 9200 other anglers tryin to fish that small stretch.

[wv]

Seeing all these great reports and new members make me want to get out and start fishing.:-) If I can get my son awake maybe I'll get our licenses and get out this afternoon. Welcome to the guys from Williamsport and Falling Waters. Looks like we fish some of the same areas. Hope to see you all out this year. You guys have found a great site with all kinds of helpful people.

[Hellbenderman]

Sean, Me asleep? No. You know there are those times when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, and you know you are going to get there, but there's this one more thing you have to wade through to get there and it is going to be hell for a while? I am hiding in the bathroom with the door closed, and the lights off. No, I'm not getting divorced...hahaha. Who else would have me? I don't think I could fool anyone again. Sometime later this summer, when all has been flushed, I'm going to have a coming out party. In the mean time, I will surface for fish stuff when it's safe.

[BrianinMD]

Time to come out of the bathroom Chris, less than 2 weeks until the first tourney. By this time next week I will know what boater is stuck with me for a partner.

[basser89]

Time to come out of the bathroom Chris, less than 2 weeks until the first tourney. By this time next week I will know what boater is stuck with me for a partner.

Agreed! It's time to get out of there! There's plenty of sunshine and the bass are even starting to bite for me!

Popped over to Black Hills at lunch today. Went to the stick ups to wet some line and managed to finally get on the board this year! Caught a little 1 pounder on a black and blue jig with a baby paca craw trailer. That one hit in about 3-4' tight again a lay down log. Missed another one (on the same bait) out deeper. Counted that one down to about 10'. Hit in the same place, tight against another lay down.

[JigMe]

you are that close to the water huh...lucky man. Closest lake to my office is 30 mins...sigh!

[basser89]

you are that close to the water huh...lucky man. Closest lake to my office is 30 mins...sigh!

Yeah, I'm really lucky! Its 10 minutes total from parking lot to parking lot where I went today.

[Traveler2586]

Yeah, I'm really lucky! Its 10 minutes total from parking lot to parking lot where I went today.

Do you have to pay some kind of extra tax for that convenience

Good Fishin', Eric

[basser89]

LOL Eric! No, fortunately not. Actually, I have another spot that I'm within 5 minutes of the lake from my apartment. Makes for a quick evening outing after work rather easy.

[Munkin]

20" SM I am guessing at about 4.5lbs caught on the UP at Four Locks yesterday. It was a good day as I caught 12 keepers in about 4 hours.

Allen

[nastynate]

nice fish. I was fishing the beaver pond this afternoon and herd quite i few boat on the river. Waiting to get my stickers and i will be on the water.

[basser89]

Nice Smallie Allen!

Like Nate, I'm waiting on my stickers too to get out on the water as well!

[BrianinMD]

Man, some great lookings catches these last few pics can't beat catching smallies like those.

No smallies for me so far, heading out sunday to prefish for a tourney on the lower Potomac so won't be this weekend either but hopefully with the weather the LM will be active.

[Fat Boy]

^{Nice fish Allen and Nate! Congrats!}

^{Not bass fishing, but...}

^{I had planned to fish the Lower Potomac with my buddy Howard today, but he had to cancel due to some health issues in his family. Fortunately, my buddy Bob had a spot in his boat and was planning on getting out today to target muskies and walleyes. Last night I scrambled to change my bag over from my tidal stuff to musky stuff, and eagerly looked forward to another chance to catch a 'ski.}

^{We started out with is Son Carson joining us, but a frigid 28 degrees left us with ice on our line and guides early on, and the cold was too much for him to bear, so we took out and brought him home to warm up. Prior to taking out, Bob caught a small walleye on a chartreuse grub, and I had a musky roll on my Musky Menace Glider. Bob and I returned to the river for the balance of the day.}

^{We worked a few spots without any more action, until one spot where I had a fish blow up on a Hot Tail without getting hooked. Bob had one follow and nip at a Bomber Long A at the boat. I changed back to the glider and had a fish rise more than once on it, and also had a different smaller fish follow it to the boat, and hang for an F8 without a hit. The next cast, the first fish took a swipe at the glider twice, before getting hooked on the third twitch later. I fought and landed my biggest musky to date, this one pictured, at 39.5".}

^{After the action here died down, and my arms aching from tossing gliders all day, we both decided to fish around the dam for walleyes. My buddy tied his grub back on, and I put on a Rapala Husky Jerk. Bob hooked up on a fish a few casts later, and after a minute or so the fish cut him off during the fight...a musky, we figured. He was using 8 pound mono. Two casts later, he hooked up again and fought a fish a while until it came off.}

^{Meanwhile, I was casting down river, working my Husky Jerk very slowly, twitch...long pause, twitch twitch, longer pause...hoping to tempt a walleye or smallmouth. About five minutes of this and I had a nice hit, and set the hook. The fish bulldogged and at first I thought it was a big smallie, but then it just didn't have the same type of fight, so I thought it was a big marble eye. But as it neared the boat, it ran, and that isn't like a walleye at all. I backreeled and it took some drag, and after a minute or two, I saw a musky on the other end.}

^{Here is my walleye, that turned out to be a 35" musky:}

^{Sorry about Bob's thumb in the pic...he's not savy with my phone yet I'll have a better pic once he downloads from his camera.}

^{All in all, it was a great day for me, my best musky outing ever, first multi-ski day, and my PB musky! 2 muskies and 6 follows/boils between the two of us.}

[basser89]

Awesome post Kevin! Glad to see some toothy critter action for ya! I've never had much luck early in the season with muskies (probably because I'm focused on largemouths, lol). That's something I'll definitely have to do this year since I never even wetted any line for them last year. Keep up the great posts and pics!!!

[Munkin]

Called the river report today and the current water temperature for the Upper Potomac is 54 degrees.

Allen

[301-fisherman]

Hey all been awhile. Hope everyone is well. I made it out to Black Hills today. Had no success. I didnt even see any bait fish, nonetheless it would a perfect day out.

[basser89]

Glad to see ya back on the boards 301!

Hang in there with Black Hills! I believe its going to start picking up as long as these temps stay where they are!

[Bill Poch]

Hi guys. Just found this forum looking for some late winter smallmouth fishing information. I live in Fredneck and fished a lot last year out of Pinecliff park just wading around and fished the upper potomac at Harpers Ferry. I did hit blackhills a few times as well. I spent most of my prior fishing experience at blackhills, I grew up in Damascus so I was pretty close to Boyds.

I used to mainly fish for largemouth when I was a teenager into my early 20's. (I'm 39 now) Life kinda got in the way and I hadn't fished for many moons. Last year during the summer I got re-hooked and this time it was wading for smallmouths.

By no means am I pro-angler, but in the summer on either river, it wasn't very hard to catch fish. What I'd really like to accomplish is actually understanding the fish a little more and be able to understand, what I should be trying to do to catch more fish. Although for both those rivers I've always stuck to rebel crawfish crankbaits and 2-3" berkley power grubs, if one wasn't working, the other was, though I've had most my success on those crankbaits.

Anyway, just posting to say Hi, and I hope to learn something here.

I've never tried fishing this early in the year and I'm not sure how the fishing from shore is since it's too cold to be wading in, but with these temps I really want to get out and fish. I did pick up a kayak this winter, but I want to wait until the water gets warmer to use it in case I dump myself.

[basser89]

Welcome again Bill!

A few places you can try out that's near you as well that you can fish from shore. Cunningham Falls, the pond in the park at Middletown, the pond at Baker park (I JUST found out there are bass in there) just to name a few. Scroll back through the pages, or I'm sure some others will chime in as well on other places nearby.

I made it out again at lunch today. Popped over to Black Hills again. Checked the water temp this time, I about passed out when I read the temp at 58! Keep in mind this was a shoreline reading in the sun but still! I managed another small one on a spinnerbait. I was surprised on how dirty the water still is. Definitely call the water I was fishing stained! I may have had a foot of visibility.

[RickyReed]

Anyone fishing on the eastern shore? I'm looking to get into a fishing club preferably near kent island or at least in the general area any suggestions would be appreciated

[basser89]

Anyone fishing on the eastern shore? I'm looking to get into a fishing club preferably near kent island or at least in the general area any suggestions would be appreciated

Hi Ricky,

If memory serves me correct, there are/were a few anglers that post on this thread. I know there's a ton of pages right now but you may want to sift through the pages to see "who's who" that's close to you. Maybe some of the guys on here that are in clubs could point you in the right direction as well!