One Lure, Three Different Fish

Type: Tidal
Region: Central
Location: Little Patuxent River and Potomac River near Antietam Creek

I hit the Little Patuxent River on Friday for a couple hours after work and tried a Rapala Shadow Rap for the first time and caught three very different fish. First one was this channel catfish, which is actually the first catfish I have ever caught in 35+ years of fishing. (The next day I fished the Potomac River near Antietam Creek and again my first fish of the day was a channel cat on a Shadow Rap!) I had a couple other fish rise and disappear quickly from view going after the lure in this section of faster water next to a small pool but couldn't tell what they were. I moved on to another section where the water was clearer next to a downed tree and had some smallmouth bass show interest in the lure, but no bites. Then the first cast in another section of the river, I got what I came for: a smallmouth bass! It measured 15 inches and is my biggest fish on the Little Patuxent this year. And then finally, a 10-inch fallfish -- I didn't take a photo because nobody really wants to see that.