Potomac River Blue Catfish

Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: Potomac River

I fished with Julian Tsai and Gene Wright on the Potomac River today, 4/20. We anchored off of Ft Washington and were dropping cut alewife over the side for blue catfish.

The bite was fair, we only caught 27 blue catfish, one each of a channel catfish and a bullhead catfish in six hours of fishing. The fish ranged from 11� up to 28.5�. We fished the end of the rising tide, through slack tide and into the dropping tide. I'm thinking if we just fished dropping tide it would have been a much better catch.

What a beautiful day to be on the water.