Fishing Reports
27300 Fishing Reports
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Pilings
Forage
Perch
Species
Northern Snakehead
Season
Summer
Technique
Buzzbaits
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Alewife
Bass fishing in the Potomac River when a snakehead came up and inhaled my buzz toad. Not the species that I was going for, but still a lot of fun. Unfortunately he destroyed my buzz toad! 😂
Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Summer
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Pilings
Forage
Minnows
Caught a lot of huge bluegills right by a pier with a gulp minnow on a jig head. I jigged it up and down and they would just smash it. They fought very, very hard for their size.
Species
Smallmouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
79°
This was a 2 day tournament, working the bank catching nice 1.5 smallmouth then day 2 looking for deep post spawn fish on deep rock piles. Fishing 35 -45 feet deep . 1.7 to 2.7 size Fishing sitting on deep rock piles flats .working the sand edges to rock, and every time my bait made it to the rock, it was on . Give this a try. Have fun and be safe on the water.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Ned Rigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
71°
Circled back to the Ned after drop shotting all morning. First cast, Stuck ‘em!
Species
Smallmouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Reeds
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
78°
Caught some largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing reeds at night. Casting the frog on the edges earlier in the evening got more bites. Later in the evening more fish seemed to hold deeper in the reeds.
Species
Spotted Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
Points
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
81°
hard jerks with short pause between. Mix it up and hold on. THEY WILL CRUSH IT! Caught several in the 2+ range.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Humps
on this day drop shot was hot. Mainly used was zoom centipede. I'm sure other stick baits would had work but zoom centipede was doing so well why switch it.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Crawfish
Fished along the weed lines. Occasionally throwing the sleeper craw right into the submerged grass and popping it out will trigger a bite. For the times that sleeper craw was not working I switched to a more finesse style. Something like a neko or dropshot slowly dragging on the bottom.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Rip Rap
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
80°
rip rap near heavy vegetation held a lot Of decent fish. Mostly fishing backwaters recently due to high flow on and near main channel has produced the best days. Large mouth were very active. Flipping rip rap worked well along with throwing frog on heavy cover with duck weed most hits happened when pausing instantly when hitting pockets and open water.
Species
Panfish / Bluegill
Season
Summer
Technique
Live Bait Rigs
Structure
Matted Grass
Forage
Insects
Water Temperature
65°
Dropped it in so grass and hooked in some pumpkin seed
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Lily Pads
Forage
Insects
High insect activity on the surface. A lot of breaching the water.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
75°
“Fish were caught by fliping a tube or a jig near the weed edge in 12-15 ft of water until you locate a school once you find a school you can realy throw any bait at them but I got the bigger bites throwing an outkast tackle chicken jig”
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
82°
Dropping wacky senkos by brush piles. Very light hits today.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Matted Grass
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
74°
in the southern basin the water was high and off color got several fish flipping in dollar pads and water chestnut, had several blowups on the frog but only hooked one and had a pike cut me off. Also fished along rock walls and had good success on the dropshot
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Perch
Water Temperature
77°
Skipping jig under docks with large end platforms provided several nice 4 1/2lb bites on those days where the wind makes fishing offshore for smallies difficult
Species
Smallmouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Reef
Forage
Perch
Water Temperature
76°
Offshore reef and shoals producing nice small mouth bite for numbers. Open water sniper in hybrid goby provided best of both worlds with hair jig and traditional finesse jig features. Don’t be scared of the small thin wire hook, these things can take a beating!