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Fredericksburg
Free Lance-Star

The
Washington Times
Wednesday,
May 23, 2012
Editor’s
note:
This
is ’Gene
Muellers
final column for The Times. He’s taking his talents to South
Carolina, to enjoy retirement and great fishing. He will continue
work on his website, genemuellerfishing.com.
Atlantic
croakers finally have decided to show up in Southern Maryland
waters. The species is a warm-weather favorite for thousands of
local saltwater anglers who use two-hook bottom rigs, baited with
pieces of (very expensive) bloodworms, peeler crab, or more
reasonably priced squid and small, uncooked grocery store shrimp.
CSNwashington.com
Fishing
on the Potomac: Post spawn topwater!
Steve
Chaconas May 27,2012 A
week of fairly stable weather has fish on their way to a summer
pattern. Expect to find fish in various stages, close to deeper
water all the way to the bank! Low tides start the day providing
topwater opportunities early!
Charlie
Taylors' Fishing Report
Charlie
Taylors Fishing Report
May 23, 2012
FISHING
REPORT By Charlie Taylor
POTOMAC
RIVER - D.C. - Small
stripers and large catfish are the fare at Fletcher's Boathouse,
where cut gizzard shad chunks are taking the fish. Downstream,
bass are hugging the riprap above Columbia Island, main river
bridge pilings, and rocky points. Catfish are available to anglers
fishing flats adjacent to the channel, on chicken livers, cut bait
and clam snouts. Grass beds above the Wilson Bridge are producing
bass on Slug-Gos, buzz baits, Pop-R, jig 'n pig and plastic worms.
Fredericksburg
Free Lance-Star
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Calendar
May
24
Fishing
Report May 24, 2012
OVERVIEW:
OVERVIEW:
The Memorial Day weekend
forecast is shaping up to be conducive for spending time on the
water. The rain we have been getting may make some waters stained
or swollen, but otherwise everything looks great for some good
catches.
McCotters
continuous update - Lake Anna fishing Report
Lake
Anna Report
"LET
US PUT YOU ON FISH" Chris Crafts' BlogSpot
with latest Lake Anna fishing
Richmond
Times-Dispatch
By:
Times-Dispatch
Staff
Richmond,
Va. --
JAMES/APPOMATTOX/
CHICKAHOMINY RIVERS
Lonnie from Castaway (804
706-9100) reports the following catch: Adam
Tibbs (Chester),
8-pound
largemouth bass.
Bigger catfish seem to have
slowed down as of late. Crappie also are hit and miss. Bream are
picking up, biting on crickets.
Surf 'N Turf/Castaway
tournament results: 1. Samuel
Yates-Steve Coglin,
20.8 pounds; 2. Larry
Lester-Barry Tucker,
18.8; 3. Richard
Addy-Kelly Pratt,
17.8. Big fish: Paul
Shattuck-Walter Shattuer,
6.51.
Mike at Pat's Sporting Goods
(804 748-4165) reports bream are biting on live crickets in ponds
and lakes. Croaker and spot are biting below the James River
Bridge on squid, shrimp and bloodworms.
Recent
Fishing Reports by the Green Top Professionals
Date:
5/18/12
Chesapeake
Bay:
Excellent Croaker catches abound throughout the York River. The
State Park area, west Point, and the Coleman Bridge are some of
the known producers. The James River Bridge has also been a good
producer of Croaker.
JournalPress
Outdoors
Report May 9, 2012
Fishing
was decent this past week despite rain. Turkey hunting is winding
down. Many fish are post spawn and hungry so get them now before
it gets too hot!
Rappahannock River Little Falls’s
(540-656-8696) reported bass hitting many types of artificial
baits. They are post spawn and hungry. Catfish action is decent
for really small fish. Many catfish will go into a spawn mode soon
but they do not all spawn at the same time. Night fishing will
begin to pick up.
The
Roanoke Times
By
Mark
Taylor The Roanoke Times|
Did the Memorial Day holiday
weekend sneak up on anyone else?
It's hard to believe the
unofficial start to the summer season is here. But it is, which
means this will be a busy weekend for fun on the water, especially
because forecasts are calling for hot weather.
Smith
Mountain Eagle
Changing conditions challenging
Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
12:05 pm
Capt. Mike Snead
virginiaoutdoorsman@gmail.com
Water
Temp.: 68-74 degrees, Water Clarity: Fair/Good
Bass
and striper anglers have both found that changing weather
conditions, wind, fluctuating water levels and spawning activities
have impacted seasonal fishing patterns, making it more difficult
to catch good numbers of quality fish on a regular basis.
The
Virginian-Pilot
Fishing
Forecast:Week
of May 24-30
By
Lee
Tolliver
© May 24, 2012
Let's get ahead of ourselves
just a tiny bit and look to one of the most anticipated arrivals
in the coastal waters of North Carolina and Virginia - cobia.
This powerhouse attracts
considerable angler attention when it first shows along the coast
of Ocracoke Island, from where word quickly spreads that the brown
battler has started its migration north.
Dr.
Julie Ball Fishing Report
Weekly
Sportfishing Rundown
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Memorial Day Report 25 May 2012
With
fronts, storms, and wind keeping many boats at the dock over the
past few weeks, the great weather forecast paired up with
cooperative fish could make this Memorial Day weekend a great
lead-in for the summer fishing season.
Charlotteobserver.com
5/23/12
Area
Fishing Report
Tropical
Storm Alberto spurs fishing action at Carolinas coast
By Tom Higgins
Posted: Wednesday, May. 23,
2012
Tropical Storm Alberto appears
to have stirred up fine fishing as it skirted the Carolinas coast,
while proving to be a relative dud in regards to the forecasted
possible damage.
Parties trolling offshore
generally scored excellent catches of gaffer-sized dolphin the
past three days, especially out of Oregon Inlet, Hatteras Village
and Ocracoke. The catch also has included bigeye and yellowfin
tuna.
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Chickahominy
Lake Fishing Report – May 16, 2012
A few crappie were scattered up
the major creeks, but most crappie and a few white perch were
around the creek mouths and on mid-depth wood cover in the main
lake. Crappie and white perch were hitting live minnows, Wright
Bait Co. and Southern Pro curlytail jigs and tubes, small
swimbaits, and Kalin crappie scrubs.
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Crafts Blog - Lake Anna Fishing Check
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Maryland hunter safety course instructor Joe Novak
is more than a little upset about a web story spread far and wide
by FoxNews.com on May 25. If you're a hunter like Joe and I, you
will be ticked off, too.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Karen
Redmon and Dwayne Sullivan were preparing to get on their boat,
berthed at Buzz's Marina on St. Jerome's Creek (in St. Mary's
County, Md.), when they spotted a good-sized fish in the
shallows near the docks.
Maryland
DNR begins Diamond Jim fishing challenge May
25, 2012 08:51 GMT WBFFFox45
Baltimore
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland natural resources
officials say Diamond Jim is on the loose.
The first specially tagged Diamond Jim was among
dozens of striped bass released Thursday into the Chesapeake Bay
as part of an annual fishing challenge. Anyone who catches the
fish wins a prize that increases the longer the fish goes
uncaught. Diamond Jim is worth $10,000 to the angler who catches
it before midnight June 30.
By Mark
Taylor May 25, 2012 Roanoke
Times MONETA — That
day's foot patrol in Afghanistan was supposed to be routine for
Spc. Joe Yantz and his fellow Army infantrymen, if there can be
such a thing as a routine foot patrol in Afghanistan.
Then came the little wall that Yantz had to step
over.
The one he didn't get over.
Thursday, May 24,
2012 Virginia Gazette
From Virginia Marine Resources Commission Virginians may
fish without a license during the first weekend in June. The
state will offer free fishing days, June 1, 2 and 3, 2012.
Virginians can enjoy the great outdoors with family and
friends without having to spend money for a saltwater license.
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Here's
Bob Lunsford, who retired from being chief of Maryland's
freshwater fisheries. Those are not two big black holes in his
head. I believe those are sunglasses, but can't be sure.
By: JIM BREWER | Daily
Progress outdoors columnist
Published: May 23, 2012
For the past couple weeks, we have reviewed a few of
the various gamefish available in Central Virginia. So far,
catfish and trout. This week we’ll discuss one of the most
popular gamefish of all — the bluegill.
That’s right, bluegills are gamefish, and what
they may lack in size, they make up with spirit. On the end of a
light rod, pound for pound, bluegills are as tough as they come.
By Bill
Cochran Outdoor sportsmen often look back 50 years and more
to the golden era of conservation, when their efforts restored
waning populations of deer, turkeys, bear and other wildlife.
Organizers are pulling the plug on a unique
Rappahannock River bass fishing tournament scheduled for this
weekend after discus-sing the planned event’s downsides
with fellow anglers.
The tournament concept was to catch fish in the
lower river (primarily around Tappahannock), then transport them
at the end of each day for release in the Leedstown area, a
stretch of river that many bass fisherman say has diminished
greatly over the last 15 years in terms of largemouth bass in the
area.
Monday, May 21, 2012
 Our
friend, Dr. Jack Scanlon, proved once again that you don't have
to head into high country to get a turkey. He shot this fine tom
on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the state's spring gobbler
season.
Someone on Yahoo! Answers wants to know.
By Lee
Tolliver The
Virginian-Pilot © May 20, 2012
It was 11 years ago when Chris Vitovich’s
close friend died from cancer.
Vitovich had vowed days earlier to hold a fishing
tournament in his hunting and fishing buddy’s honor.
It was a brutal undertaking for Vitovich, who was
trying to recover from back surgery.
He ran most of the first tournament laying on a cot
under a tent at West Landing Marina.
Posted on May
20, 2012 by Capt.
Art Ed Allens Campground
Capt. Art Conway of Conway’s River Rat Guide
Service (804-746-2475) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait
reported that Chickahominy Lake mid-day main lake water
temperatures were in the low to mid 70’s last weekend. The
lake level was about 6 inches above the top of the dam. The water
was dark but not muddy in the lower lake, but was slightly muddy
up some of the creeks.
Most crappie and a few white perch were around the
creek mouths and on mid-depth wood cover in the main lake.
Crappie and white perch were hitting live minnows,
Washington
Post By Robert
McCartney, Published: May 19 Just
because you’re promoting a worthy cause doesn’t
justify distorting the truth.
That’s a
principle violated in Washington perhaps more than anywhere, and
most recently in an attention-grabbing report
by an environmentalist organization declaring the Potomac to be
“America’s #1 Most Endangered River.”
Elk
begin road to recovery in Virginia State
game officials and wildlife enthusiasts welcomed the release of
11 elk in far Southwest Virginia.
By Mark
Taylor May 19, 2012 The
Roanoke Times GRUNDY
-- After a three-hour ride and an overnight stay in a livestock
trailer, the five elk should have been eager for freedom.
But when the trailer door opened, there they stood.
"You always have a couple," Virginia
wildlife official Bob Ellis said, shaking his head and smiling
lightly.
Posted: Saturday, May 19, 2012 By Chris D. Dollar
For The Capital If
there’s a silver lining to temperamental trophy rockfish
season, perhaps caused in part by the unreasonably mild winter
that inspired big stripers to spawn early and hit the road, it’s
that our summer swimmers have arrived earlier than usual.
Man's
huge fish may not be certified
Published: May 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM
WOODBRIDGE, Va., May 18 (UPI) -- A Virginia
angler said his catch of an 18 pound, 4 ounce snakehead in the
Occoquan River may have been a world record, but it will likely
not be certified
Wednesday - 5/16/2012, 5:01am ET Michelle
Basch, wtop.com
WASHINGTON - A stunning new world record
may have been set in the D.C. area.
A northern snakehead fish, which some people call
"Frankenfish," was pulled out of a tributary of the
Potomac River by a Woodbridge man. The fish, which isn't
supposed to live in the D.C. area, weighed in at more than 18
pounds.
By Bill
Cochran May 17, 2012 The
Roanoke Times In May, the
coast of Virginia offers world-class fishing for red and black
drum along the barrier islands of Eastern Shore and in the
Chesapeake Bay. You can catch fish weighing 25 to more than 80
pounds in small boats without taking long runs to deep, offshore
water.
By: JIM BREWER | Daily
Progress outdoors columnist Published: May 16, 2012
Since the Game Department began their year-round
stocking program with unannounced and random stops, trout fishing
in the put-and-take streams has evolved into a pastime devoted
mainly to retirees, the unemployed and those who have friends at
the hatcheries, and know the daily destinations of the trout
trucks. Many ordinary anglers have stopped trout fishing and have
turned their attentions to spring gobblers or to the warm water
game fishes.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Long-time tidal Potomac River fans are not surprised
when they hear that this historic river might be home to more
alien than native fish species. For example, the most popular
fish in the upper, tidal parts of the Potomac is the largemouth
bass. It draws an ever-growing number of anglers from all over,
yet the largemouth is not a native species.
Monday,
May 14, 2012 Fishing
is fine from the Potomac to the end of the Chesapeake
Gene
Muellers' World
of Hunting & Fishing

Larry
Horne (left) and Charles Southall (right) show off the black
drum they caught in the lowest parts of the Chesapeake Bay. In
the middle, Hunter Southall, Charles' son, latched onto a nice
red drum. By the way, both fish species taste about as good as
any fish will ever taste.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
In 2009, the Virginia
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) began a 3-year
largemouth bass stocking project in Back Bay with an experimental
stocking of approximately 75,000 surplus largemouth bass. For
those of you who do not know Back Bay, it is a huge,
grass-infested area very close to the Atlantic Ocean side of the
state and sits just a bit north of North Carolina's famed
Currituck Sound.
Nice weather means more people, more boats and more
danger.
Fairfax County fireboats will be on safety patrol on
Saturday, May 26, along the Potomac River in the Mason Neck
area.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue has a few fundamental
tips for boaters before they embark on voyages:
Thursday, May 10, 2012
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