March M&G

[Runnin]

I have eaten a few blue cats at this location. They were all under 20" and tasty...I am still trying to figure out how I grew this third nipple though!

Sounds like Spark's alias is Scaramanga, The man with the Golden Gun!

[Goody]

Sounds like Spark's alias is Scaramanga, The man with the Golden Gun!

LOL. I was thinking of the same thing.

[buzz]

i have eaten a few blue cats at this location. They were all under 20" and tasty...i am still trying to figure out how i grew this third nipple though!

lol!!! :d

[Rockchaser]

Well, we are 2 weeks away from the March Meet & Greet. We will be going for Blue Catfish at the Wilson Bridge so get your stinky bait ready and lets go fishing.

Hopefully the water clears up and warms up by then.

Those attending so far.

Rockchaser
MOC
buzz ?
Shady
Sparky1423
dson05
wschrack
Jaspratt
DanMarino
Canoe515
Dan Goddard
MD Dore
Birddog and son
echo5oscar
kevinfry
turtle135
Redfish

[PigPen]

If you don't eat the blue cats then what do you do with them? I've heard the snakeheads are tasty but haven't heard anything disparaging about toxins. I guess they could make cat food or ferment into more catfish bait.

[canoe515]

I would like to join you guys. I have been a light/ultralight fisherman and basically a fair weather fisherman, so I may have to back out if we are still in the dreaded "polar vortex". 50's I can deal with. I will dust off the one heavy rod I have and spool on some new line. I've fished for bullheads when the bass and bluegill were not biting, so a big Mr. Whisker will be quite a change.

[sparky1423]

We usually toss them for distance from the top of the bridge...the fisherman that got skunked is usually the lookout for the PoPo

If you don't eat the blue cats then what dfo yuou do with them? I've heard the snakeheads are tasty but haven't heard anything disparaging about toxins. I guess they could make cat food or ferment into Kore catfish bait.

[Rockchaser]

I would like to join you guys. I have been a light/ultralight fisherman and basically a fair weather fisherman, so I may have to back out if we are still in the dreaded "polar vortex". 50's I can deal with. I will dust off the one heavy rod I have and spool on some new line. I've fished for bullheads when the bass and bluegill were not biting, so a big Mr. Whisker will be quite a change.

Hopefully it warms up by then. Water temps in the mid to upper 40s would be great also.

[Jaspratt]

http://www.bayjournal.com/article/sa...tch_invasive_s

There feeding it to us anyway.. Count me in hopefully i can fill the freezer. Since i quit buying fish in the stores. Maybe for lunch.

[Rockchaser]

http://www.bayjournal.com/article/sa...tch_invasive_s

There feeding it to us anyway.. Count me in hopefully i can fill the freezer. Since i quit buying fish in the stores. Maybe for lunch.

I might eat it from farther down river, just not sure about all the run off from DC streets. Hope we will see you on the 8th.

[ronaultmtd]

I usually fish in the spring to fill my freezer with blue catfish filets...from Mattawoman Creek way up from Slavins launch- and I only keep blues from 27 inches or less- they are fun to catch on light tackle and I usually put over a chum bag and anchor up just on the edge of a channel in 10-12 feet of water and toss chucked bunker or menhaden on a 7/0 circle hook (fishfinder rig) into the deeper water channels- If you are going strictly for pullage- Wilson Bridge and the Harry Nice bridge (Aqualand) have some really big monster Blue cats in the deep channels- but you couldn't hold a gun on me to eat one of the big ones-

[DanMarino]

Isn't there a sewage treatment plant on Mattawoman Creek?

[ronaultmtd]

Not to my knowledge above Slavins Launch...

[DanMarino]

According to the satellite map I looked at, the treatment plant is up stream of the 225 bridge. Wouldn't the treated water go up and down the creek with the tides and eventually out into the Potomac?

[ronaultmtd]

Not aware there was a waste water plant upstream of the 225 bridge- the creek is barely navigable in a kayak above the bridge- the only time you have an issue with treated water is in by-pass mode when flooding causes raw sewage- the entire Chesapeake Bay has dozens and dozens of waste water treatment plants discharges- and as long as they are properly functioning all is well (or as well as EPA can regulate)----it is in the spring rains and floods we get all the sewage discharges...