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Well no luck today. I had two bites for all I know it could have been a catfish. We might try to go back tonight and do a little night fishing, but we have been fishing this lake off and on for months and landed maybe 3 fish out of it. 2 catfish and a rainbow  trout lol.

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Good afternoon everyone

   I hope everyone has had succesful fishing trips the past couple of weeks. My wife and I going up to loch raven tomorrow morning, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any spots they would be wlling to share for bass. we are not keeping any just catch and release.

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Nice bass Mike! Glad to see you're still tearin them up!

wifisherman, hope you had a good outing over the weekend!

I've made it out on occassion now and again. Mostly fishing the C&O canal at Williamsport. I've managed a few dinks here and there on a variety of baits (7" worms, Rage Toads, Skitter Pop and of course a spinnerbait). I've heard there are some solid largemouths in there but hadn't seen any until over the weekend. Saw a solid 5lbr cruising, unfortunately she wasn't interest in the jigs I was throwing but that was a good sign.

This past saturday, a very good friend of mine and I hit the upper Potomac for some smallie action. Luckily, the water had toned down some and was a fishable stained color. Between the 2 of us, we scrapped out 10 smallies on jerkbaits and cranks. Our biggest one went 16 1/2" and was caught on a crankbait. I felt pretty good about our results since it was only the second time we hit this area on my boat. The other good part of the outing was this was the first time I had the chance to test out the outboard I picked up. It ran great! Here's a pick of the biggest smallie we boated.

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Nice pic basser. No we did not catch anything. I had a couple bites by some logs with a green frog but nothing solid. spinners, cranks, jigs and tubes were all for not lol. plus our motor died on us and we had to paddle back to shore. it was still a better day then being at work.

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Thanks wifisherman! That guy fought like you wouldn't believe! He kept bull dogging me for a while before I got him to the surface (and he still kept trying to get to the bottom). I would have sworn it was a lot bigger than 16 1/2" had he got off.  ;D

Sorry to hear about the motor breaking down on you! That really stinks! Hope you get it up and running again soon! Had we had issues with my outboard, I would have had to let my partner out so he could go get the trailer and meet me down at the next ramp down, the current was that strong in the area of the Potomac we were fishing. There's no way I could have put the boat back on the trailer with the trolling motor only!

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Hey there Wifisherman.

I fish at Loch Raven about 3 or 4 times a week.  I usually fish from the shore, but if you're in a boat, go out from the docks, and than go to the right.  Go past the bridge, and you'll see a cove with an island on your left.  That cove is PACKED with Large Mouths, all sorts of various pan fish, and Chain Pickeral.  Some of the pickeral are big...I've caught a few that were 20 inches or so.  Good luck!

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Hey there Wifisherman.

I fish at Loch Raven about 3 or 4 times a week. I usually fish from the shore, but if you're in a boat, go out from the docks, and than go to the right. Go past the bridge, and you'll see a cove with an island on your left. That cove is PACKED with Large Mouths, all sorts of various pan fish, and Chain Pickeral. Some of the pickeral are big...I've caught a few that were 20 inches or so. Good luck!

Thanks for the info next time we go we will have to try it.

We are about to go up to lake elkhorn up by columbia has anyone been up there lately? we went last night and it is pretty grassy. lots of weeds and muck. perfect conditions for bass although we did not find any. it is really shallow about 3 to 4 feet. Just wondering if anyone has been up that way latley.

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thanks we are going back sat morning to see if they bite better in the morning. When we were walking to the dock on friday we saw two people walking out with a stringer of 7 or 8 bass, and i know for sure not all of them were legal limit i hope people dont do that to much or there wont be very man bass left at the end of summer.

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Thinking of heading down to dickerson, hopefully it isnt that muddy . havent fished in over a week Pool buisness is very busy right now lol. I give a little report when i get back for anyone thats interested.

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Ending up catching 7 smallies yesterday. biggest being about 14 inches. Surprisingly caught all of them in the same spot on a smoke tube. water was like a water downed chocoalte milk i guess haha it wasnt very high. So good luck to anyone that goes down there

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Nice Boett, glad to hear you got into a few. I am hoping to get out this Thursday, thinking of putting the boat in at Black Hills or Cunningham Falls. Haven't been out recently myself need to get my fix soon......

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Cool deal Boett! Glad to hear they're still hitting down that way! I hit Middletown the end of last week and WOW!!! That place looks like crap! I can't believe this time 2 years ago, I was tearing them up on a Spittin Image and now you can't fish much more than a frog or toad! I did manage 2 small ones on a Spro Bronze Eye frog in there (biggest might have gone a pound and a half).

Good luck Brian!

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middletown is pretty hard to fish now, even the frog bites are hard to come by, any idea on what would cuase all that alge to grow?. i dont remeber it ever being that bad.

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This is JUST a guess but I can tell you the pond has gotten worse since they started using the algaecide to help "control" the grass. I wonder if they're treating the pond with something too strong and this is the affect its having. I'll see if one of my contacts at DNR can shed some light on the situation.

I agree with you VAfisherinMD, it was pretty sad that I couldn't even throw a weightless plastic worm without getting 4 pounds of crap wadded up on the front of the bait.   :-/

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What's up Maryland???    :)

Things have been slow for me lately. Been managing to fish from shore here and there (mostly on the C&O canal in Williamsport) and catching a few small bass. FINALLY got my truck back on the road so I can cover a few more places! Well, this evening on my way home from work, I decided to stop off at a small community pond that I haven't had much luck with in over 2 years (I actually wrote DNR about it to see if they removed the bass from the pond). Well, I finally turned the corner on the dink page I've been writing. LOL! While I only caught 3 this evening, I had almost 10 pounds worth of bass in those 3. Largest one went just over 4 pounds (on an analog scale). The other 2 went 3lbs and 2 1/2lbs. Caught the two biggest on a spinnerbait and the other was on an X-Rap. All three put up a really good fight too! I checked the water temp and was surprised at the temp. It was only 74 degrees.  :-? Found that to be a little odd for this time of year. I'll post a pic of the 4 pounder I caught as soon as I get it downloaded from the phone.

How's everyone else been doing?

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Been very slow the last few weeks, haven't been skunked yet but only 1 or 2 small bass. Been trying everything I can think of with the same results.

Hopefully my trip to the river tomorrow will give me some good smallie action. Thinking about taking some bait for catfish with me just in case I get to one of the deep holes and want to anchor. Debating because I have not had the boat in the river before so other thought is to stick with bass while I go around learning the river.....

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Well on second thought....

checked the weather for tomorrow, the storms are the late in the day variety I thought. They are starting in the morning, so I am not taking the boat out. Time for some more bank fishing, hopefully I can get out of my slump and get a few before the storms hit.

Anyone else going out?

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