05-23-2007, 10:32 PM
If you can find some bank with cover on the tidal Potomac around Alexandria, there is good largemouth fishing. Catfishing is great here, too, use clam snouts (readily available at bait shops) for bait.
If you end up with a boat, be extremely careful, the Potomac can be four feet deep where you are and six inches deep two feet to the side of you. There are a lot of sunken barges in the area, some barely under the surface. A boat is the way to go, though, the largemouth fishing can be excellent, especially around Mattawoman Creek, south of DC on the Maryland side, near Indian Head.
If I still lived near there, I'd be glad to take you fishing, but I recently moved to Georgia.
By the way, the two largemouth I'm holding in my avatar were caught on the tidal Potomac.
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If you end up with a boat, be extremely careful, the Potomac can be four feet deep where you are and six inches deep two feet to the side of you. There are a lot of sunken barges in the area, some barely under the surface. A boat is the way to go, though, the largemouth fishing can be excellent, especially around Mattawoman Creek, south of DC on the Maryland side, near Indian Head.
If I still lived near there, I'd be glad to take you fishing, but I recently moved to Georgia.
By the way, the two largemouth I'm holding in my avatar were caught on the tidal Potomac.
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