I am looking for someone to talk with about the Potomac river and I am looking for some guidance in terms of figuring out the river and am looking for someone who I can pick their brains of people who know the river very well and successfully catch fish on it. I would like to talk to someone who could tell me what spots to avoid and what spots usually contain bass and which spots contain quality bass and which spots contain numbers of small keeper bass. I am looking for someone who can point me to web sites and articles that I should read and could serve up names of people that could help me and give me local information,  the kind of information you don't get from Internet study and history. I am looking for people who can tell me Which spots on the potomac river hold the biggest bass. If so, PM me

Wow...i think you should start with "I need some help catching fish on the Potomac River." What you're asking for is something that could take many, many years to figure out on ANY body of water .

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If you shore fish, and live near Stafford , VA, I can put you on an awesome place to fish when they're spawning. PM me if you want.

http://www.fishingwithteddy.com/

Also, you may want to attend the Richmond Fishing Expo on the weekend of January 21-22-13 and speak with the guys at Teddy's booth and other guides in the area. 

What do you think of this:

April: In April. Look for bass to be around the areas where the Spring shad run will be taking place upstream/upriver  on the Potomac, and the bass should be there following the shad. The bass should be hanging around the thin, incoming aquatic grass. Find shallow areas with deeper water nearby, but focus on the shallow bite (3 feet or less). The largemouth might also be sitting in the incoming grass lines, so try there. Look for smaller bass to be in the wood and structure feeding. Try fishing tight to the bank. Target scatted clumps of grass, Target grass beds in the creeks and on the main river, and try targeting big community grass beds, and also try the grass beds on both sides of the river, focus on finding new grass

     If the water is in the 68-72 degree range the bass should be spawning, or if there is a full moon, the bass should be spawning, but the bass tend to spawn towards the end of the month

     Try finding the traditional spawning grounds of the bass, there should be some bucks hanging around waiting for the females to move up

     For smaller bass, hit the marina's

     The pre-spawn fish be out in the deeper grass

     The full moon will take place Monday, 18 April 2011, am, which should trigger the bass to move up and spawn, before the full moon look for bass cruising and looking for spawning sites, many bass will be pushing to spawn into shallow coves

Places to try:

Powell's creek: Most likely the bass will be staging to spawn outside the shallow water with stumps, fish the drop offs in the creek by the stumps and pilings, the bass should be staging to spawn there and target laydowns that line the shore of Powell's creek

popular spot at the mouth of Aqiua: Here you should be able to find larger bass in the 16 range on a Red rattle trap, Lizards, but focus on the grass that Aqiua contains. Look for bass to be spawning in Aquia, try the rattle traps in the grass

Mid River section : At this spot fish a redeye shad in the very shallow water and around grass and lily pads.

Bryan's cove:  In april there should be clumps grass there with a lot of grass growth

Aqiua Creek:

Potomac creek:

Forage: Shad

Lures: Red rattle trap, Chatter bait, Red-eye-shad, Jig, Creature bait, Baby 1 Minus in chart/gray, Spinner baits (white), buzz bait, frog

Weight: In years past it takes between 17 and 20 pounds of bass to win the tournament.

Techniques: Try burning the baits you throw with a high speed reel to trigger strikes. Try working the rattle traps through and around deeper grass also and around staging areas, such as Powell's creek

That post looks a little complex for a 14 year old that a few posts ago didn't have a clue about where to fish the P-mac.  I hope its not copyrighted material.....

I went through all the Virginia hunting and fishing forum, loooked through 3 years of fishing reports, researched on google, and looked through anything that talked about fishing the river in April

Not sure about the Potomac, but around here, if you look for spawning bass in 68-72°, you're too late.

This smells.   

Good luck getting anybody to give up spots like you're asking for on a public forum.  Even community holes. Spend some time on the river this spring/summer and you won't be able to help but pick up a few good spots using the "bent-rod" pattern.