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Catfish in the Potomac can be the size of a human child ... A really big fish is a “freaking tank” or a “river monster.” Reeling one in is a “free roller coaster” that results in ...
Scuttlebutt has it that the Potomac is well on its way to surpass the best blue catfish waters on the East Coast, the tidal James River below Richmond, where daily catches of 30-, 40- and 50 ...
POINT OF ROCKS -- Easter morning, Ron Lewis and his friend, Jimmy Griffith, launched Lewis's boat on the tidal Potomac River about 7:30. Griffith caught the first fish, a 14-pound catfish.
The Chesapeake Bay has a big blue catfish problem. But one photographer thinks that catching, killing, and selling blue cats ...
The rod to his left bucked twice and then slowly began bending toward the river without stopping. “We’re on!” We’d been soaking baits for less than 15 minutes. Blue catfish are invasive in the Potomac ...
Blue catfish showed surprising tolerance to brackish ... Without waves to fight, we adroitly cruise over flat water on the gently flowing Potomac River. Mid-transit, Cubbage reaches over the ...
I SAW HIM, JIMMY!” was the loud exclamation from P.J. Korn, as he held fast to the heavy spinning rod that was connected to a big, Potomac River blue catfish. We were fishing down river from the ...
Crocker and Stely took first place in the Maryland Chapter of the Catfish Nation Tournament held Aug. 22. The tournament took place on the Potomac River at the Fort Washington Marina in Prince ...
Stanley "Sebby" Brock III poses with an enormous catfish found in the Potomac River near the Chain Bridge (courtesy of Stan Brock) A 20-year-old Arlington man out fishing near the Chain Bridge ...
The invasive species in question is the blue catfish, a species so large it has become known as the "River Monster of the Potomac " and other major Chesapeake Bay tributaries. The catfish's diet ...
Catfish in the Potomac can be the size of ... In a secret spot on the banks of the Potomac River, just past Georgetown, a fishing rod has begun to twitch. Then it arcs with the weight of what ...