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I don't know how many but there was an article in the hagerstown paper on it. I got the impression it was above the dam. Yeah i agree on your suggestion. All the people i spoke to that caught them at blackhills did so in kayaks with there shadow behind them and on chatterbaits. I saw about a thousand fry in that cove on the right from the ramp awhile ago. I called it in and left a message. There is so many in blackhills i don't even try to go there anymore. Also way way to crowded. I spent 90% of my time avoiding craft on a Wednesday around 5 pm. Didn't catch anything not even a bluegill. Gas prices are going down, I'll check out rileys lock to see if it's cleared yet.

Just saw snake heads have made it up to Dam #4 on the upper Potomac. I've been wary and kinda expecting it. I don't know if they can survive colder water farther up stream but the fact they made it over the dam is curious to say the least. I've tried to catch them, so far no luck but i have noticed they're skittish as heck, have great eyesight, and are very very observant. Any change in presentation throws them off. Talking to people that did catch them they did so in shade and an ambush sneak attack that the snakehead didn't have time to check it out. If anyone knows the trick reply. My former golden lake is now worthless due to them.

It's late June 2022. Has anyone been down to Rileys lock on the canal near Darnstown yet this year? Usually the aqueduct is clogged up and the ramp has a foot on mud on it until they clear it out. Due to gas prices i haven't driven down to see yet. Due to gas prices my boat hasn't moved yet either.

Appearances can kill you on these waters as with most. An entire 3 generations of family were killed a few years ago. The went out on a private lake after a down pour and were swept over the spillway. Sometimes i think a boat driving license would be nice. I definitely needed it, took a year to get the basics down.

As i kinda thought the story was exaggerated. They went in up to there knees and there was 3 to 5 inches of water in the boat. Still a very stupid move There is no way anyone could survive swiming in the bay now. Sorry for not investigating it before.

Yeah, young enthusiastic stupidity. It illgal here not to have a pfd on, but with the covid the dnr officers are few and far between. If i recall right 2 or 3 duck hunters died of the upper potomac this winter. One group got iced in and it took 3 fire companies and the dnr to get them out. If i remember right the duck hunters got wet and died of hypothermia. I bet his mom kicked his butt.

Yep..i suspect it was a narrow jon boat. He wanted to by my boat but i wouldn't sell, he would kill himself. We had a few really nice warm days, guess he didn't figure on the water temp He's about two hours away close to the bay. If he is like his dad he will never go out again.

A former friends kid bought a used 15' aluminum boat. I haven't seen it or know what it is. He got antsy and took it out on the Chesapeake Bay. He's never even been on a boat before. Any here is his story. Launched and the boat drifted away we had to go swiming in really cold water to get it back. Took about 45 minutes to get the outboard started and it was a old pull start 2 stroke. We finally got out in the severn river and decided to go across the bay. A few minutes into open water the wind picked up and we almost capsized twice. We figured out how to hit the waves and they were coming over the front. The boat was about a third full of water so we turned around. We were all soaked and freezing. We got back to load it and the truck just spun it's tires. Finally we figured out to pull the drain plug and we got it out very slowly. I think the boat is for sale now.

The hotel started with a W. It was right before a causeway. A guy fired up a raceing boat at 5:30am that shook the hotel. I tried to get out to see it but was late. I moved after the first night Just launching from the state park ramp i cruised for ever, tried 5 coves, got really lost(thank you GPS) but it was early spring and the water was cluttered. The few that were fishing were all under bridges. I think for crappie. Just seems that it'll take at least a week probably 2 to figure out the spots. A small lake in Western MD took me a day and a half. I finally found an abandoned cove with a creek empty docks,and ducks. Did real well, 6 bass and a Pickerel in a few hours. Maybe I'll call a guide and see if i can work something out. Sleeping in truck :)....I'm way to old for that now. I tried it in WV, froze my blanks off. My driveway is a 1/4 of ice now.

Yeah, i have the lodge site. I stayed there for a few days in the spring or fall. It was $81/night. I stayed at a hotel in Guntersville right on the water..horrible place, all you heard were jake brakes all night. I either heard it or looked it up, the so called prime spot "goose pond" maybe there rates were 250/night. I think that was for a cabin. My budget allows for up to 120/night. That lake is so big it would take me a week or more to find a half way decent spot.

Any suggestions on what part of lake? North or south. I've been around Scottsboro a few times although not fishing and i rented a boat at the state park. On that one I'd been lost without my gps.. man that lake is way beyond anything up here. It will look a little funny towing a boat down 81 in the snow, but oh well. I've heard the Scottsboro area is very expensive to stay at. We're about to get our second nor-easter tomorrow. That wind is really bad.

I'm in MD freezing my tail off. Is it still warm,50s to 60s, down there. I'll need to get a super heavy boat cover that i can drive with but man i gotta get out of this 15 degree 9 degree wind chill? Yeah i know, that's summer in MN but not here. Oh, heck with the boat....I'll shore fish...

My 17' 50hp 2 stroke did 45 once. Scared the heck out of me. Also there was a lot of vibration. I was a a big rock skipping across the water. On the one hand it's nice to know what it can do if i need it but mostly i don't go over 20. Plus anything over 3,000 rpm and i can watch my gas gauge drop. Also i agree with the aircraft carrier post. I have to make all my turns in a cove or creek with the trolling motor. Yep you want to go fast buy a boat that's made for it or a jet ski, fishing boats generally aren't and the one's that are take a lot of experience to operate. I would never get anything bigger than a 17'( shallow water and river use).

Oh forgot Going from around 300 LBS row boat to a 1000 lb bass crappie took years of learning. I still back off in the river if the current is above normal. Loading in high current can be scary.

I was 42 when i got my sort of imitation bass boat. I used a 1969 wards aluminum 13' row boat i got from my dad. I blew up the outboard the first time out. So a TM for 15 or more years. I still have it in a garage

Subway until they ditched the roast beef. Quiznos bit the dust in most of MD due to bad service and $25.00 subs.

I just saw 20 freshwater fishing Used boats for under $1500 just a hours drive I saw new Colman for around $300.00. My brother had that and it was a tough little boat. Used one for 250. These fit on the bed or cargo carrier. They are everywhere. One things for sure, you'll learn your balance ?

Around here you can get a used 14' Jon boat with a used motor and trailer for 500. They are beat up but they work. 200 into the set up and your good to go. A smaller one that's fiberglass (10') or so goes for 200 new Canoes everywhere for free. Craig's list and other type of web sites.

One thing I learned. Spend days scoping out a lake, the day, weather, and time I wasted days fishing a lake with thousands of strippers only they were 200' down, the shallows were mud flats . When I go this year the first day is to cover as much as I can, find some quite spots with creeks ,cover,and birds and head out in the mist the next day. Then sneak in. I've ditched my local lake completely now

Summer fishing also. 2 chairs poles bait and beer and you good to go.

From what I've read I don't have the patience, cold tolerant body, or lakes that have safe ice. Spring, summer, and fall are good. I've only found 4 coves that were perfect and the weather was perfect. Coves with no boat traffic, quiet, ducks swimming around, and overcast. I'd sneak in on the TM from around 300 yards out and catch stuff on every third cast. MD really doesn't have safe ice anywhere anymore. In the late 70s it did.

Oh yeah, wakes kick my butt. A mostly flat bottom bass/crappie boat falling 4 foot belly flop...it freaking hurt. But in my defense it was that or run into a cliff. I redo the online course each year, it helps a lot. Just be patient and don't allow passengers to dictate your driving... if they do...have them walk the plank ? I won't let a friend of mine on the boat at all. Very unsafe unstable personality Yeah my first outboard...I hit a log the bottom on the engine is in the Potomac river.

It took me a good two seasons to learn the basics of my boat. During that time it litterly beat the heck out of me. It stayed in the garage for 10+ years before I got a truck that worked well with the trailer. Mine will do 45 but I've only done it once, too unstable even on glass water. My personally hardest things were understanding the 50 hp merc 2 stroke and loading. I flooded out many times and broke the trailer and cracked a rib loading. The last thing was recognizing other types of boats, judging there experience, and learning how to deal with them( ex. Wake boats). I am far far away from even being average, but I know enough now to be safe. Oh yeah....you'll learn what NO BRAKES REALLY MEANS, most likely when you smack a dock in rough surf. @A-jay is 100%right. Always have a PFD and kill switch on. I got flipped off using the TM once. Also go slow, speed just costs more and more and more.

I'm considering putting in a small catwalk on my trailer about 5' long. I can draw it up but I was wondering if they might be made. A local place can make it but they gave me a ball park of 2k (including storing the boat off the trailer at a friend's), they said due to the galvanized everything and welding. I was think galvanized with rough web type floor. Anybody know anything?

Oh yeah!!!!! The upper Potomac from Whites ferry (closed) up through Williamsport is dangerous as heck. I personally knew two people that have drowned. I heard both were sucked under. They both died at the Dickerson Warm water outlet. I waded into Williamsport in the 80s and barely made it out alive 2 miles down stream and I was 22 at the time. It's a very deceptive river, so much so the DNR won't go places to check duck hunting license.