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Fishing was not great but I figured I would post up a report since Mom Nature has been giving us the business.
I do not fish for stripers too frequently but in the search for open water on Saturday February 1st I wound up fishing with 3 other kayak anglers on the Potomac River down by the 301 bridge. There is a power plant warm water discharge about 150 yards down river from the bridge on the Maryland side and while the river did have lots of ice (and was registering about 32 to 33 degrees) the water from the discharge was up to 37 to 39 degrees.
We were hoping that warmer water would pull fish in but we only pulled in the one striper. We also tried for some blue cats but no luck there.
lots of ice floating about, it would move in with the tide and the river current, push us around, then our fishing spot would clear back up 5-10 minutes later
this a popular spot, besides the 4 of us in kayaks we had 4 other boats fishing the discharge area
I got the striper on a 7" Bass Assassin Straight Tail Shad (I believe it was their "Salt & Pepper Silver Phantom" color) on a 3/4 ounce jighead.
As I mentioned I do not fish for stripers frequently and you could sink a boat with what I do not know about catching those fish but the jigging technique I employed is shown in one of the striper fishing videos on this site:
https://tightlinejunkiejournal.pivot...bass/828/media
click "Categories" then "Striped Bass" (and you can preview that video "Fall Striped Bass on the Chesapeake Bay" for free)
I do not fish for stripers too frequently but in the search for open water on Saturday February 1st I wound up fishing with 3 other kayak anglers on the Potomac River down by the 301 bridge. There is a power plant warm water discharge about 150 yards down river from the bridge on the Maryland side and while the river did have lots of ice (and was registering about 32 to 33 degrees) the water from the discharge was up to 37 to 39 degrees.
We were hoping that warmer water would pull fish in but we only pulled in the one striper. We also tried for some blue cats but no luck there.
lots of ice floating about, it would move in with the tide and the river current, push us around, then our fishing spot would clear back up 5-10 minutes later
this a popular spot, besides the 4 of us in kayaks we had 4 other boats fishing the discharge area
I got the striper on a 7" Bass Assassin Straight Tail Shad (I believe it was their "Salt & Pepper Silver Phantom" color) on a 3/4 ounce jighead.
As I mentioned I do not fish for stripers frequently and you could sink a boat with what I do not know about catching those fish but the jigging technique I employed is shown in one of the striper fishing videos on this site:
https://tightlinejunkiejournal.pivot...bass/828/media
click "Categories" then "Striped Bass" (and you can preview that video "Fall Striped Bass on the Chesapeake Bay" for free)
. I guess since you were blessed with a Rockfish it must be the former!
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