Junger

I'm using a swinging jighead for a weedless presentation.

I caught him on a white Zoom Horny Toad with a 4/0 rigged weightless. I had brought 2 rods that day, 1 rigged with a popper and 1 with frogs. I couldn't fish the popper at all because of the drift so I had to park myself into the weeds and threw the frog all day. I saw the pics of the SH's from the C&O canal in this thread, I'll have to start hitting that more often.

My first time out on a kayak to fish. I missed 3 fish, landed 1 LMB that came off at the kayak (I didn't have net), and 1 snakehead. Kayak fishing was OK, but there are definitely issues I have with it, such as trying to stay stationary on a certain spot to throw poppers or other top waters along a specific edge.

Is anyone going to fish during the eclipse? If so, do you think the fish will behave as if it's an extended dusk?

My neighborhood pond is exactly like that, all I see are stunted bluegill, the biggest ones are 4-5", and lots and lots of fry and way too many frogs. I've thrown senkos, horny toads, swim baits, poppers...to every part of the pond and not one bite. I'm 99.99% sure there are no bass in there...only bluegill and some mudcats. I'm planning on fishing for some LMB at a local lake and putting 2-3 in there.

I'll definitely have to check out Widewater. I'm about 15 minutes away from there off Falls Chapel Road. What do you think about live-lining bluegill there? My local pond has hundreds and hundreds of stunted bite size bluegills.

Thanks! I used to go clamming up in Dickerson as a kid, and I remember throwing little jigs with spinners and get some dink smallmouths in a lot of current, it was a lot of fun though. I run along the C&O frequently between Angler's and Great Falls park, some of those pools look fishable, but it just doesn't seem like there's fish in there...I maybe see a few bluegill but that's it, and it seems like the locks prevent movement between the pools. I'll probably try one day if I can get out there not on a weekend. In the near term, I'm going to buy an electric trolling motor and rent boats at Seneca and Blackhills to start learning those bodies of water.

Hey MD bass anglers, I new to the forum and here's my quick intro. Anywho, my first contribution: Went to Lake Whetstone on Sunday afternoon with my dad and fished from 1-3PM, water was stained, and wind was gusting at times. I wasn't expecting to catch anything, and was really scouting it out to take my kids one day. I'm kind of new to bass fishing and trying to refine some techniques, so I wanted to try out a wacky rigged senko that I've seen a lot of people use on youtube. I put on a 5" watermelon with red flakes on a 2/0 octopus hook and started roaming the banks. Got one small 9" LMB in about 30 minutes, and 1 hit about 30 mins later. My dad was throwing a small jig with a spinner on light tackle. He saw my bass and snuck into my tackle bag, where I had 5" pink senkos that I told him I've seen a ton of people catch fish with...on youtube of course. He texas rigged it and casted out in the middle of the lake...which seems like would catch nothing. Next I see him walking across the dock as if he's snagged, but then a fish jumps out of the water. He wasn't snagged, he had a fish on...it took him about what seems like 15 minutes to reel that fish in on his light rod, 10lb mono test. It actually ran under the pavilion and I thought it was going to rub loose against the wood pylons, but I managed to reach down and grab it in the mouth. It was just barely gullet hooked and I got the 2/0 out pretty clean and wanted to revive it a little before taking a picture. Of course it shook off as soon as it hit the water. I estimate about a 3.5-4lber, it had a large brown spot on one side of the head, not surprised since that lake is basically a large run off. The kid at the boat dock said it was the biggest one all year so far. Anyways, sorry for the wall of text. Hope to gain some more fishing knowledge from some local guys and maybe meet up with a few of you.

Hey everyone, my name is Tom. I have a renewed interest in fishing a couple years ago (I'm 41 now), after taking my dad out on a snakehead fishing trip for his birthday. I grew up mostly panfishing from the bank, but lost interest in my teen years as I got into sports seriously and none of my friends fished, so neither did I. I'm now addicted to topwater action after using frogs and poppers to get SH, which I got my first last year. I have 2 young boys (4 and 7) that I'm starting to get into fishing, right now it's just a worm and bobber on a push button rod. But I want to be able to take them bass or SH fishing one day, and knowledgeably teach them the techniques and use the right tackle. So now as I'm investing more time and resources into fishing, I'm trying to learn as much as I can.