Blue catfish are in the Potomac and Patuxent hitting cut alewife from both the shore and from boats. The warm weather and plentiful rain are the right conditions for catfish to extend their range to the mouths of the rivers and even onto the bay shores.…  | David M. Higgins II, Publisher/Editor March 5 | Blue catfish are in the Potomac and Patuxent hitting cut alewife from both the shore and from boats. The warm weather and plentiful rain are the right conditions for catfish to extend their range to the mouths of the rivers and even onto the bay shores. Commercial fisherman have found rockfish in their gill nets in the lower Potomac. Strict regulations on quantity and size are in place to protect breeding fish. Some surface activity has indicated feeding blitzes drawing birds in the lower Potomac. Alewife and shad are in the nets too. Yellow perch are now in quantity on all familiar breeding grounds- Allen's Fresh, Wayson's Corner, Port Tobacco, Nanjamoy, Mason Springs, all have yellow perch. The white perch spawn will begin soon in all the same areas. Yellow perch love live minnows.
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