Who is fishing where this week 03/01-03/07??? (NoVa)

[RockvilleMDAngler]

rockville,

I'll be heading up towards you on Saturday. What time are you going?

I plan on launching between 8-9 AM depending on the temperature.  Low tide is at 6:30AM but I don't want to launch when the air temps are 31 degrees if I don't have to.  I will finalize the launch time as we get closer to Saturday and the weather report firms up.   

[soccplayer07]

went out today. fist day in months and of course motor problems. I'm guess she's gummed up from sitting the last 3 months. managed 3 fish though. all dinks.

[RockvilleMDAngler]

I fished today and struggled until the outgoing tide.  No luck at blue plains as the best spot was taken and a few other boats tried to move-in and a fight nearly broke out.  Got a nice smallie in the spoils but finally came into some numbers of good fish at 4MR on a shakey head.  Unfortunately I broke a cable on the foot pedal of my trolling motor so I can't go out tomorrow and might not get out next weekend :-(

[Jake...]

I fished today and struggled until the outgoing tide. No luck at blue plains as the best spot was taken and a few other boats tried to move-in and a fight nearly broke out. Got a nice smallie in the spoils but finally came into some numbers of good fish at 4MR on a shakey head. Unfortunately I broke a cable on the foot pedal of my trolling motor so I can't go out tomorrow and might not get out next weekend :-(

Aww that sux man. at least you got some numbers to show for it

I'm trying to get out in this nice weather, I might hit up 4MR today, by shore

do you know where I can check the tide for that area?

[Thai]

Here you go Jake

http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/potomacsites.html

I was at 4mr this morning for an hour, pulled in two on a spinnerbait before heading to more fruitful grounds

[Jake...]

Here you go Jake

http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/potomacsites.html

I was at 4mr this morning for an hour, pulled in two on a spinnerbait before heading to more fruitful grounds

nice work and thanks 4 the link.

we should go on another thai sponsored adventure soon.  :D

[Bigs]

Sorry to hear bout your boat Aaron. Lemme know how that turns out plz. If your boat is down for a while and u wanna join me one day then lemme know.

I fished a lil today at lake anna and caught 3 small bass. My buddy caught 4 small ones and Chris(cmatthews) caught one but it was a 4 pounder. I lost two consecutive 4-5 pounders in maybe a 3 minute span that I fought for maybe 20 seconds each and both jumped in the air and spit the shakey head maybe 15 feet from the boat. Just my luck.

Seems like Lake Anna is startin to heat up tho. We all had tons of bites and alot of lost fish. The water temps were up on my end of the lake from 43 degrees two weeks ago to 58 degrees now and 67 degrees over by dy ke one. My buddy even had one that was a on a bed but it got off. That was the only bedding bass we saw. I listened to what others suggested for lake anna recently and caught nothing all day, then I switched to what I knew the last 2 hours and as usual started to get bites. Think Im gonna just follow my gut instinct from now on and fish what I have confidence in.

We also saw maybe 200-300 shad or herring, not sure what they were but they were all schooled up about 300 feet from my dock right where we launch. Tons and tons of them and they were huge like the ones u see at blue plains. Im glad we didnt snag any 

[cmatthews6485]

yea it was a nice day on lake anna thanks again for everything steve and i wish i would of saved that picture of the fish so i could of posted it on here.

[leo215]

Came across this forum after searching for * fishing in google, so I decided to register as I'm reading a lot of good info. See 4MR a lot - is that a nickname for a lake? I moved down here from PA 3 years ago and usually fish at Burke or Fountainhead, but wouldn't mind finding some new spots. Preferably some places I can fish from the shore since I dont have a boat

[florida strain]

im going to the south chain..winter haven chain of lakes

[Dan:]

im going to the south chain..winter haven chain of lakes

never heard of that, where is it?

[florida strain]

im going to the south chain..winter haven chain of lakes

never heard of that, where is it?

the chain is in winter haven florida ..it consist 2 sections.. a north chain and a south chain....it is 16 lakes total conected by canal systems.. some lakes at this time because of low water level is inpassible, the canals are dried up...

[Dan:]

That's what I thought but I didn't know Florida was now part of Northern Virginia.  ;D

Just kidding, I'm just bustin your balls.

[NOVA Angler]

Came across this forum after searching for * fishing in google, so I decided to register as I'm reading a lot of good info. See 4MR a lot - is that a nickname for a lake? I moved down here from PA 3 years ago and usually fish at Burke or Fountainhead, but wouldn't mind finding some new spots. Preferably some places I can fish from the shore since I dont have a boat

Leo215,

Welcome to the forum.  There are a number of guys who fish from the bank on the forum.  If you stick around for a while, I'm sure one of them will show you the ropes.

-Rob   

[florida strain]

That's what I thought but I didn't know Florida was now part of Northern Virginia. ;D

Just kidding, I'm just bustin your balls.

ya got me ..i see now n.v. lol

[Dan:]

That's what I thought but I didn't know Florida was now part of Northern Virginia. ;D

Just kidding, I'm just bustin your balls.

ya got me ..i see now n.v. lol

no worries. Good luck on your outing anyways!

[Jake...]

Fished LHC today around 4:30 for about an hour... but no bites 

[Thai]

Fished LHC today around 4:30 for about an hour... but no bites

The water there is just too shallow and and the deeper parts by the bridge are too fast moving for the bass in the cold. I'm sure they dont want to be constantly swimming against current and expending energy. If you still have my number hit me up next time you go out I'll come out too

[LHC - Bank Robber]

Fished LHC today around 4:30 for about an hour... but no bites

The water there is just too shallow and and the deeper parts by the bridge are too fast moving for the bass in the cold. I'm sure they dont want to be constantly swimming against current and expending energy. If you still have my number hit me up next time you go out I'll come out too

Yep, you can try by the bridge but I think you'll have best luck moving out as far from the bridge as possible, or corss the parkway and get back into the creek, again try to get as far from the bridge as possible, but they should start to stack up soon.

[RockvilleMDAngler]

Came across this forum after searching for * fishing in google, so I decided to register as I'm reading a lot of good info. See 4MR a lot - is that a nickname for a lake? I moved down here from PA 3 years ago and usually fish at Burke or Fountainhead, but wouldn't mind finding some new spots. Preferably some places I can fish from the shore since I dont have a boat

4MR = Four Mile Run.  A virginia creek off the Potomac River.  There is a sewage treatment plant that heats the water in this creek causing it to be a d**n good fishery.  It is also easily accessible from shore.

[leo215]

Came across this forum after searching for * fishing in google, so I decided to register as I'm reading a lot of good info. See 4MR a lot - is that a nickname for a lake? I moved down here from PA 3 years ago and usually fish at Burke or Fountainhead, but wouldn't mind finding some new spots. Preferably some places I can fish from the shore since I dont have a boat

4MR = Four Mile Run. A virginia creek off the Potomac River. There is a sewage treatment plant that heats the water in this creek causing it to be a d**n good fishery. It is also easily accessible from shore.

Thanks Rockville, can't wait to check it out. Hopefully it won't rain Friday morning. I'm guessing you go off of commonwealth ave and park by the baseball fields?

[Dan:]

Just don't eat fish from 4MR. In fact, be careful handling them. It is extremely polluted. The state has declared it "unsafe for fishing or swimming". The last time I fished there I found out the next day that there had been a sewage leak with an unknown source.

[Thai]

landed 6 keepers at blue plains today, lost on on a jerkbait at the boat and missed a few on shakeyhead. Fish it for around 45 minutes, wish we coulda fished longer at BP..

[Bigs]

I fished Lake Anna yesterday and did ok. I caught 8 bass that were all between 1-2.5 pounds and my friend Brent caught 5. Caught almost everything pitching plastics to boathouses and docks. Saw hundreds more shad again and adult bass just cruising. There was even a few 3-4 pounders swimming around my boathouse.

The pattern I started to figure out was basically texas rigged 6" lizards/5" grubs , and 4" senkos on a zappu wacky jig head pitched underneath boats that were up on lifts and around the posts holding the docks up. Of course by the time we started concentrating on boathouses and docks, the sun was bout to go down. Caught a few in some creeks on tree laydowns too which was fun. Dy ke one was a waste of time which is a sign that the bass are moving back up into all the shallow areas. Lost a few nice ones but nothing to write home about. Lake Anna warm side is only gonna get better every day for the next 2-3 months till it gets hot and goes to crap. Those of you who arent gettin out there are missin out for sure 

[Dan:]

water temp in the Potomac is almost 50 already. It won't take very long for it to become the same temp as Anna.