VolFan

Leave out the eggs and i'd say you're good to go. You could use a can of creamed corn instead.

thats ok you know alot about comedy, you think carrot top's funny Ouch. Touche

Not too soon, just kinda poor taste.

Put the canoe in the Potomac in Alexandria, caught 12 lmb total, nothing bigger than 2 lbs, but most were between 1 and 2. Pretty equally divided between a Zoom dropshot worm in camo and a 1/4 oz gold spinnerbait with brown/gold skirt. Fish came off isolated grass clumps near current in 2-4 ft of water. If you can find a clear water/murky water edge, that seemed to help. Pretty murky water today, but better fishing than I thought. Broke one off on the worm on the hookset that would've ben 4 or 5ish (lbs, not inches)

Oh, and it looks like they may have gotten the jaws upside down. But that's definitely some sort of hog.

It's a warthog's teeth and skul (with bonus horn) put onto a fish's body, either photoshopped or taxidermic

You can also launch at the sailing marina just south of 4 Mile Run and Reagan Airport off of the GW Parkway, might be a little calmer down there unless you're dying to fish up around DC.

You can easily launch a jon at Gravelly point. Fish the main channel rocks up and down through there and on the lee side of bridge pilings and you should get whatever you want.

Did that clear it up? I like the Zoom straight trick worms in some sort of green, weightless if there's not too much current. Cast and twitch it back, or let it drift with a twitch now and then.

PM me with the name if you want, I've done quite a few overnights in the area and I may be able to give you some spots to look for.

I went to school at UT and fished the Smokies regularly for 8 years (I wasn't in school eight years, I just still lived there after graduation). I'd say get some bead-head wooly buggers, stonefly nymphs, and/or marabou jigs in 1/32 and lighter in black, brown, and olive/green. Past those, some Mepps inline spinners with the single siwash hook. Also you could get Roadrunners in the smallest size available. Toss either in the plunge pools and work slowly back and you'll be into some fish. Where exactly are you going?

If I catch one more channel on a spinnerbait or crank or senko in the Potomac, i'm going to go nuts! I keep thinking i have a nice bass and boom, a 5 lb cat.

Above DC about 1 mile above fletcher's boathouse.

LSU education for you... ;D

It's llegal to fish for/keep grass carp in FL, but not common carp

You can get Siwash (sp?) style hooks from BPS and/or Cabelas, several companies make them; i can never find them in stores around NOVA. They work fine; my hook-up rate doesn't vary much, just make sure the ones you buy will fit onto the split rings currently on the bait, and size accordingly.

I second the Shmano Sahara, I have four right now and rarely use my other more expensive ones.

You could try coloradofisherman.com as well. Alot of great guys and gals on that forum. Several live down in the Springs.

I think that's Turkey Run. Getting a boat to the water is difficult because it's 200 ft downhill to the water and very steep. Getting it back up would be even less fun. But Flyfishing Virginia and West Virginia swears theres access there.

Go to Melton Hill Res or the Caney Fork River just to the west, both have carp and I believe there's a buffalo (the fish) run in the Caney in the sprng.

We get a few around Alexadria, usually along the rockier sections, and usually their either really nice or really not, we never seem to catch the 10 inchers there.

Strangely enough, banjo minnows work pretty good for pike ( as the topic comes full circle)... Yeah the DOW has them listed in teh Occoquan, I was was talking about the res or even the river upstream of it. Pike do pretty well, even in some warmer water than most think they'd do well in. Thanls for all the replies.

If they're really thick in there, frozen shrimp or squid makes a good, fairly clean bait that you can buy at any grocery store. hook, 1/8 oz split shot about 12 inches up the line and you're good to go.

I'm with Dave; we catch them all the time on spinnerbaits in the Potomac around DC. I also caught a 40+ lb blue cat on a spinnerbait this spring, unbelievable fight. It's really a better way of fishing for tehm when their spawning.

Has anyone ever caught/seen one there? Are they further upstream? We were lookng to branch out a little and were thinking of targeting them, since we loved fishing for them out west. Anybody have ideas or guidance?