Upper Potomac Report

[bigring]

Left Hope Springs about 3...ish. Started marking fish just south of the island off Fairview. Most seemed to be holding in 30' water, just off the bottom. Trolled 4 lines around the channel edges just south of the island, using red/white yozuri and silver yozuri...nothing! Switched two lines to a 3way swivel w/ a sassy shad w/ rattle in the tail on 8' leader and heavy bucktail on 3' leader.......Wham!!!!! Caught 9 w/in one hour at about 6..ish...all between 19' - 25' . 3 hit the shad and the remaining hit the bucktail. Current from the tide was 'moving'

[ReelCommocean]

Seems like the tide needs to be running. A couple weeks ago I was out there just a bit lower at the bar and you could see tide coming in and the fish were right on that line. Most were short fish 15in but a few bigger mixed in there.

[bigring]

I caught all fish trolling across the current. I also think the rattles I added to the shad tails helped attract the fish. There is a nice dropoff....very dramatic....18'-40' about 200 yards below the island. I was hooking up on each pass across it. There was a boat setting up nearby to catfish for the evening just as I was leaving at sunset.....must be a good spot for them too.

[hookum1]

is the island off of Fairview actually the Lighthouse-Maryland Point Light?

[bigring]

Yup! That is it....about 1-2 miles just south of Tims Rivershore II.

[ReelCommocean]

were they diseased or all clean?