Was out on the Tidal Potomac River yesterday. The bass did not want to chase and they were in slightly deeper water than usual (four feet of water with scattered clumps of hydrilla and milfoil). Here are a couple of the better ones. Short pitches in and around the clumps and letting the presentation glide to the bottom. Kind of my favorite way to fish, short range, up close and personal fishing.

 

 

 

A Netbait B Bug, texas rigged with a pegged sinker.

 

 

for about 3 seconds I thought I had a monster bass on the line!

 

Nice fish Turtle and thanks for sharing!  I fish in the waters around Fort Belvoir but want to venture out a little more.  I've been using spinner baits and changing up the colors and blades but I'm in a lull right now.  I think I'll try some finesse worms or the B Bug:)

 

Take care!

I forgot to congratulate you on your snakehead.  Here's my first snakehead-9.5 lbs caught with a 3/8oz white on white bleeding spinnerbait.

 

Nice fatty a what they weigh

JStevens : for the last couple of weeks I have been catching more bass pitching soft plastics into cover, have not been getting bit with horizontal faster moving presentations but that should change sometime in September as the water cools some. Nice snakehead! hope you got a few good dinners out of that one, Did she destroy the spinnerbait?

 

Jtrout: did not weigh those bass, I have a scale but it has not made the cut for what I carry on the water of late, trying to travel lighter with just a couple of rods and whatever I can stuff into the crate

Love the Bbug, you don't hear about them much though. Great looking fish! 

Turtle, funny you should mention it!  I said earlier that it was a 3/8 oz but now that I think about it, it was a 3/16 oz spinner; anyway, I thought I was fighting a good-sized catfish and I made sure to set the hook, and then one more time for good measure. In the end I didn't even hook the fish.  My spinner was all jacked up and it bent the hook clear back.  She was holding on to my spinner just out of spite I guess, lol!

nice!

Turtle, funny you should mention it!  I said earlier that it was a 3/8 oz but now that I think about it, it was a 3/16 oz spinner; anyway, I thought I was fighting a good-sized catfish and I made sure to set the hook, and then one more time for good measure. In the end I didn't even hook the fish.  My spinner was all jacked up and it bent the hook clear back.  She was holding on to my spinner just out of spite I guess, lol!

 

Those snakeheads put the death grip on anything they want to get a hold of.

Nice work bro!