Just want to see what is the biggest fish everyone has caught from Maryland bodies of water. 

 

Deep Creek Lake = 4-5

Green Brier = 6-3

Blairs Valley = 6-2

Black Hills = 7-1

Piney Run = 5-10

Lower Potomac = 4-3

Upper Potomac = 6-7

 

These are my PB fish from around Maryland.

 

Allen

I have never really kept strict tract of my "PB by location", except for one spot.  Allen Pond in Bowie.  For those who don't know, it's a little 1-2 acre pond, very developed, in a big suburban park.  It's pretty pressued, but had a lot of bass in the 1-2.5lb range and most every year I would pull a few dozen 2.5-3.5lb bass out of there.  I became obsessed with breaking the 4lb mark.  I have gotten within ounces maybe a dozen times and once got a 3lb, 15oz bass, but never managed to hit 4lb.  

 

2020 was my worst year there yet, I think I only managed a single 3lb class bass from there and did awful over all, skunking out on more trips then not.   I think I am going to give up my quest and accept that the 4lb, 0.1oz bass that surely lurks in the depths will never be mine.  

I don't know that I know of an official PB for me in many of the lakes/rivers, but I know these...

 

Black Hill:  7-4...Also have two 6-15's

Deep Creek:  5-15 (LM), 4-8 (SM)

Conowingo:  5-9 (LM)

Tidal Potomac: not sure, but have several 6's (one in my profile pic) - haven't broke 7 yet

 

Not MD, but 'local' enough that I fish them regularly...

Lake Anna:  7-1

Lake Gaston:  6-1 and 5-14 on the same day (also have 2 other fish that I'm pretty sure were bigger than 6-1 but I didn't weigh them)

 

Everywhere else is a 4 or 5, except I don't know if I ever broke 4lbs on the upper Potomac for SM or LM - But I haven't really fished it since I had my aluminum Tracker which was 12 or 13 years ago now. 

 

Also, thread is worthless without pics - It's winter time, cmon man!

Here are the two 6-15's from BH, both were caught within a couple weeks of each other in July 2013 (both in tournaments too).  A few casts before I caught the one on the left I lost a fish that was very clearly bigger...2013 was a special year for that lake.  

Upper Potomac - 21.5” smallmouth

 

I don't even have a pic of my Allen Pond almost-4lb, I weighed her three times to make sure and just slid her back in the water when I realized I couldn't make the scale change via willpower.  

My personal best is 8.2 24.5" 

 

Allen 

Id be interested to see @basser89 respond to this. I know he has caught more than a few solid fish out of several of those places. I have only ever fished a few places down there including Black Hills and Furnace Bay. I do have a few nice fish from Furnace Bay, biggest being 21.25". 

Had to dig out my records to refresh my memory on this. LOL!

 

Black Hills - 6lbs 9oz

Brownsville community pond - 5lbs 12oz (this place was tiny but it held quite a few big ones).

Cunningham Falls - 5lbs 9oz

King's community pond 5lbs

Middletown pond - 4lbs 7oz

Culler Lake - 5lbs

Big Pool - 4lbs

Upper Potomac - 3lbs 5oz (smallie), 45 1/8" (pure strain musky , don't remember the weight)

 

A very good friend of mine has landed 2 other muskies out of the Upper Potomac over 50", he also held the state record for several years as well. He also caught one confirmed 10lb largemouth from a private pond in Frederick county. 

 

Hopefully, I can start getting out a little more often to break a few of these. 

 

Black Hills: 4-11

Loch Raven: 4-11

Nontidal Potomac: 5-11

Tidal Potomac: 5-10

C&O Canal: 7-4 (also have a 6-13 and a 6-7)

 

I have not been able to catch a fish over 5 from any body of water not connected to the Potomac.

 

 

This spring was very good for size for me, after a couple of years of so so results. I don't keep records, but got several over 6 with a few over 7 and one over 8.