I haven't been able to get out in a while. Seems like whenever I have time the river has been running high from all the rain, and its back up again after the weekend rains.
Charlie Taylor's weekly report usually has a pretty good summary of what's been going on.
http://www.charlietaylorfishing.com/fishing_report.htm
Thanks for this link! I'm bookmarking it.
On Friday evening at East Potomac Park I saw a guy wheeling out a wagon with at least 20 catfish and a few huge carp. He said he was using squid and cut bait.
I guess he was going to eat them? Sell them?
I don't know why people keep the fish they catch there. I fish there because it's the closest place for me to go from my house and I'm always curious to see what I can get on my line. I have never eaten fish from there because of the advisories. I know the water is much cleaner since the Blue Plains improvement project went online but I'm not ready to eat anything out of that water yet.