Pacemaker Fishing Forum

I'm hijacking, but may have some info useful to Ernie tmrw (emailed also). Fished Pohick from ~ 5:30 to 10:30 this morning. Fish were very active, I left because the TM battery took a dump (4 years old, time to replace!). 
  Lotsa bass, an 8-8 snakehead and a 12" YP.  It's the first snakey I've bothered to weigh, probably the largest I've caught.  Third one this year, none of them on topwater, all on chatterbaits or paddletails (I'm partial to the RI skinny dipper).  All 2012 snakeheads were caught in areas I usually bypass because I've never caught bass in the area or it looks like poor bass habitat.  The one today was in <12" of water. The water is less muddy west of the ramp and gets clearer as you head back into the creek channel, but you probably knew that already. So, I would head that way tmrw and try to be the first one there; I had alot of company as soon as the tide came in and the glass boats could manage the shallows.  I'm convinced most of the fish would have been spooked/shut down if I had gone in later.
  Good luck!

Last edited by mudkart (Jun-08-12 4:48PM)

Ernie, keep an eye out for fish feeding on topwater. I caught a dozen on a popper on Wednesday and missed another half dozen by finding fish that were chasing bait along the outsides of thick lilies adjacent to deep water (well, it is Pohick so I guess I should say "relatively deep")

btw, that was early to mid afternoon.

Last edited by Dominion Dan (Jun-09-12 2:00AM)