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Ernie · May-13-13 1:17PM

Some of the veteran fishermen will say that this is is the list of non native fish to the Potomac:

Snakeheads
Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
Walleye
Carp
Channel catfish
Blue catfish
Needlefish

According to some experts, these are the Potomac's native fish:

Stripers
White perch
Yellow perch
Sturgeon
Sunfish (certain species)
Hickory shad
American shad

Others?

Thai · May-13-13 1:53PM

Crappie

Osprey · May-13-13 2:26PM

The shad are just seasonal passers-by, if you're counting them you have to add herring , alewives, speckled trout, weakfish, croaker, red drum, flounder, seabass and bluefish. Though their numbers are low now it hasn't always been so.
Here's a link to native and introduced fish in fresh and brackish tidal Potomac waters (117 species) http://www.potomacriver.org/2012/masterfishlist.pdf
now let's get out there and catch something.

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Ernie · May-13-13 2:30PM

Thai wrote:
Crappie

Which list?

Ernie · May-13-13 2:32PM

Osprey wrote:
The shad are just seasonal passers-by, if you're counting them you have to add herring , alewives, speckled trout, weakfish, croaker, red drum, flounder, seabass and bluefish. Though their numbers are low now it hasn't always been so.
Here's a link to native and introduced fish in fresh and brackish tidal Potomac waters (117 species) http://www.potomacriver.org/2012/masterfishlist.pdf

OK...Potomac River, sweet water.....maybe above 301? Do all of these apply? Tell me which list.

Osprey wrote:
now let's get out there and catch something.

I am doing my best....not enough water time. Work is getting in the way!!

Bryan · May-14-13 5:49AM

You could add tiger musky to the non-natives. Or maybe it's pure musky, I can't remember which they stock.

Osprey · May-14-13 7:04AM

Pacemaker wrote:
OK...Potomac River, sweet water.....maybe above 301? Do all of these apply? Tell me which list.

I believe they all apply above the bridge. The only salty ones I haven't caught above the bridge are flounder and specs. Only small blues, but some nice croakers make it above Port Tobaco. No trout in years, but Popes Creek drop off used to be special. Pickeral and LMB used to be plentiful in the marina at Aqualand

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captmikestarrett · May-14-13 12:42PM

I have got flounder in the pads at Burgess Creek. Bluefish at Wades Bay. Trout at MD Pointe in front of the sat dishes . Did you add the spotted bass in the spoils.
Also a bonefish but that was 100 feet south of the 301 bridge. That same year we had black drum in the outflow.

Capt Mike

basscrusher · May-14-13 7:13PM

Bonefish? No chance.

backtofuturetoyota · May-15-13 4:06AM

I think I'll use this as a checklist of species I want to catch. I think I have maybe 40% of that list....I'll have to start working on the rest!

hookup · May-15-13 6:57AM

I've caught trout around Brunswick.

Also caught non-indigenous carps belong to the Cyprinidae family

captmikestarrett · May-17-13 10:25AM

basscrusher wrote:
Bonefish? No chance.

Just the ramblings of an old man..

Capt Mike

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What is native (fish) to the Potomac?

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