Location: Potomac River, Maryland

Date: 5/04/05

Launch Site: Ft. Washington

Weather: Cloudy/Some light Rain to Mostly Cloudy

Wind: 5-10 MPH

Air Temperature: 49-60 Degrees

Water Temperture: 54-61 Degrees

Water Color: Stained to muddy

 

 

We started the day by launching at Ft.Washington, which is a good mid-way point to launch on the Potomac.

 

We left at 7:00 AM and headed to the "Spoils". When we got there we found 5 boats fishing in a tournament and several more arrived in the next half an hour. It didn't matter at all though, as the bass were on a specific pattern and we caught 5 bass from 2.1 to 3.0 pounds from the left shore near the Island on a Rat-L-Trap and a Lucky Craft Rick Clunn crankbait. While these were good bass, we were looking for larger fish as we needed real kickers for the upcoming B.A.S.S. events and the FLW tour soon after.

 

We left the Spoils around 9:00 AM and headed to "Blue Plains" and found one small bass but no real aggressive fish in the sizes we wanted. We left there and went to Little Hunting Creek, where Denny Brauer won a tournament fishing flooded pads and a dock in 1998, but we didn't like the look of the water in there, and the tide was really low at this point.

 

We headed to Pohick Bay where we found what we wanted.

 

We took 5 bass from 3.1 to 5.8 pounds on Yamamoto "IKA" tubes in smoke, on a 1/2 ounce Tungsten weight in green.

 

We stayed there until well after 1 PM, and then headed into Matawoman Creek by the ramp at Smallwood State Park.

The grass had already formed on the surface in many areas and the pads were up to about 80 % of their final height and fullness that they will have by July.

We were working the first set of pads across from the ramp and picked up  the first bass on a crankbait and it went 3.5 pounds.

We fished Matawoman for 3 hours along with at least 15 other boats in tournaments and managed 4 bass from the area all going over 3 pounds.

It was a great day and we ended up with a 5 fish limit of 17.6 pounds for the day. A good start to finding the fish we need for the B.A.S.S. and FLW tour later in the year.

 

Until next time,

Tight Lines Steve and Kurt S&K Guide Service