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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Warmer weather produces better fishing

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What a difference warmer temperatures make. Three of us fished the tidal Potomac River two days ago and caught bass as far down as the Mattawoman and Chicamuxen creeks to a good ways above the Wilson Bridge.

Local river guide Andy Andrzejewski hooked a good number of bass -- including a beautiful 6-pound largemouth bass -- on a 4-inch red Ribworm, proving again that it's never too soon to use plastic worms. An assortment of crawfish imitations, including Mann's green-and-red flake Craw in the 31/2-inch size, also were productive.

Andrzejewski's fellow guide, Dale Knupp, also was superb, hooking bass after bass on the short green crawfish fakes. They left me little to catch, but I did manage to hook a few bass, and one took a red Frenzy Rattl'r.

Start the white perch hunt -- White perch are coming up the tidal rivers of the Chesapeake, and a few large, fat specimens are caught -- with the best yet to come. I'll take a chance and say the weekend might signal the beginning of the spawning run in the Potomac as far up as Washington, where catch-and-release shad and rockfish are now taking lures, but there are no perch just yet.

But it will happen there, as well as the upper Patuxent, Chester, Nanticoke and Choptank. At the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, you already will see spawned-out perch, and the shad are starting to show. While on the Potomac, I chatted with shoreline anglers at Marshall Hall, and they had not yet hooked anything but small channel catfish.

Occoquan will turn on -- Fountainhead Park ranger Smokey Davis said, "Cold temperatures and gusty winds have made bass catches tough to come by this past week. The reservoir is three-quarters full, and the water is clear, but the surface temperature still is only around 50 degrees. Bass are staging and can be taken on crankbaits, suspended hard stickbaits and jig 'n pigs, but the strong wind has made it difficult for anglers to score consistently. As the weather warms the bass will get serious about the spawn."

Flats show small rockfish -- Maryland DNR officials say rockfish hunters in the upper Chesapeake, particularly the Susquehanna Flats, finally found some striper action this week.

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