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The date was actually 07/28.
On Sunday, after a fun but unproductive fishing-wise trip to the Bay bridge, I decided to try a new Snakehead spot in southern MD. The Piscataway has easy kayak access from a launch at the end of Wharf road near Fort Washington. I scoped it on a map and figured no one would be there and it would be a quiet trip. I arrived at the launch around 5:30pm and found a group of people drinking beer and playing cornhole. Kinda like a tailgate for the sunset! The natives were friendly though. They asked a couple questions about what I was fishing for and one guy even said he had seen Snakehead and pointed to the right of the launch. Cool!
Once I get out on the water, I found it to have good visibility, but shallow and very weedy. I don't know what that particular grass is, but there was a lot of it from the launch to the east except where the water flowed out of the narrow creek. As I got halfway across the river, I see ominous clouds rolling in out of the west and see my first lightning, so I paddled a bit faster to the other shore, threw on my poncho and hung out under some trees until the storm passed. It didn't take long and I was back out on the water. There was lots of Spatterdock on the eastern side and it walled a small creek that goes all the way to 210. I tried to find channels in the grass to throw a frog into, but no action. I tossed into the Spatterdock. Nothing. I know fish sometimes nestle down in this grassy stuff, but I'm not so sure they bite much when in it! I moved on into the creek where the main channel was free of the grass, but the water muddied a bit from the current. I had just purchased a UV visible spinner and had that on my UL rig, so I tossed that in the middle of the creek just to change things up. Boom, but it was a catfish. 4 casts later, another catfish. These were a lot fine on the light tackle, but the last one mangled the lure a bit, so I put it up and started dragging a plastic frog and casting the top water frog ahead of me on up the stream. Nothing was interested in the topwater, but I hooked a 16" bass on the slow dragged plastic frog.
That was it. I headed back to the van with no Snakehead. But I got the skunk of the day off and tied my personal best bass so far! And I got to see a nice sunset on the paddle back. There were some inebriated locals hanging at the launch when I got back. They offered to help me pack up and were eager to talk about my kayak and the fish I caught. Very nice people, but I hope they lived close by!
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On Sunday, after a fun but unproductive fishing-wise trip to the Bay bridge, I decided to try a new Snakehead spot in southern MD. The Piscataway has easy kayak access from a launch at the end of Wharf road near Fort Washington. I scoped it on a map and figured no one would be there and it would be a quiet trip. I arrived at the launch around 5:30pm and found a group of people drinking beer and playing cornhole. Kinda like a tailgate for the sunset! The natives were friendly though. They asked a couple questions about what I was fishing for and one guy even said he had seen Snakehead and pointed to the right of the launch. Cool!
Once I get out on the water, I found it to have good visibility, but shallow and very weedy. I don't know what that particular grass is, but there was a lot of it from the launch to the east except where the water flowed out of the narrow creek. As I got halfway across the river, I see ominous clouds rolling in out of the west and see my first lightning, so I paddled a bit faster to the other shore, threw on my poncho and hung out under some trees until the storm passed. It didn't take long and I was back out on the water. There was lots of Spatterdock on the eastern side and it walled a small creek that goes all the way to 210. I tried to find channels in the grass to throw a frog into, but no action. I tossed into the Spatterdock. Nothing. I know fish sometimes nestle down in this grassy stuff, but I'm not so sure they bite much when in it! I moved on into the creek where the main channel was free of the grass, but the water muddied a bit from the current. I had just purchased a UV visible spinner and had that on my UL rig, so I tossed that in the middle of the creek just to change things up. Boom, but it was a catfish. 4 casts later, another catfish. These were a lot fine on the light tackle, but the last one mangled the lure a bit, so I put it up and started dragging a plastic frog and casting the top water frog ahead of me on up the stream. Nothing was interested in the topwater, but I hooked a 16" bass on the slow dragged plastic frog.
That was it. I headed back to the van with no Snakehead. But I got the skunk of the day off and tied my personal best bass so far! And I got to see a nice sunset on the paddle back. There were some inebriated locals hanging at the launch when I got back. They offered to help me pack up and were eager to talk about my kayak and the fish I caught. Very nice people, but I hope they lived close by!
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2013-07-30T07-53-50_1.jpg
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