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Gene Mueller’s Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Can spring be far away when a number of local, tidal creek fanatics have begun their annual hunt for yellow perch?
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
As you read this, the air will tell what typical February weather should feel like, but the past six or seven days' spring-like temperatures have worked wonders on man and fish.
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Although local meteorologists say that January 2012 and the beginning of February aren't even close when it comes to warm winter month records, every fisherman in the Washington area wouldn't mind if things stayed that way at least until April arrives.
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Although the close-in Atlantic Ocean in Virginia and North Carolina continues to deliver great catches of tunas and striped bass, this also is a good time to think of planning outings to the Tarheel State's surf and inlet waters that are not far from the Virginia border.
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
When Lake Gaston, Va., resident Marty Magone visits the tidal Potomac River just south of Washington, it generally is to be with old friends, the river's largemouth bass simply being pleasant interruptions between story telling and keeping up with the latest news.
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Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
As water temperatures fall all around the region, savvy anglers resort to an old fishing trick. It has worked ever since electric generating plants have been built on the shores of lakes and rivers, drawing water to cool heated turbines, then sending the warmed water back into the body it came from. Published December 28, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
OK, so we're not having Arctic weather, but it will be cold again soon enough. When the mercury drops and the wind turns a 40-degree day into one that feels like it's 25, more than one of the Potomac's fishing insiders begins to take a hard look at the Occoquan River in Prince William and Fairfax counties. Published December 21, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Among American sport-fishing fanatics the striped bass (aka striper or rockfish) is second only to the largemouth bass in matters of popularity. That should come as no big surprise since an adult striper of 30 to 50 pounds can make a grown man's muscles feel like Jello and turn an expensive one-piece fishing rod into a two-piecer when you least expect it. Published December 14, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Thousands of automobiles roll past it every day, their occupants — some could be fishermen from other locales - blissfully unaware that the large, rock-strewn cove known as the Spoils might very well be the most consistently productive cold-weather fishing spot on the upper tidal Potomac River. It's but a stone's throw from the I-295 exit lanes that take motorists from Maryland across the Wilson Bridge into Virginia. Published December 7, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Because many local and distant waters are beginning to slow down as far as productive fishing is concerned, and concessionaires who rent out boats having packed it in for the year, we now switch to a different format. Today is the first of our cold-weather fishing reports. Published November 30, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Not everyone in town and in the suburbs is going to stay indoors and devour turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day. Published November 23, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
The time has come when many of our area's warm-weather fishermen begin to stash away their boats and tackle. However, hard-nosed anglers who prefer to seek their quarry in the Chesapeake Bay, the tidal rivers of Maryland and Virginia, as well as the not-too-distant Atlantic Ocean, are not giving up - not by a long shot. Published November 16, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
What a glorious time of year to be a dyed-in-the-wool sport angler. It's November, with cool nights and fairly warm days, and in the case of the Potomac River, crappies are biting big-time in a number of its tidal portions. Published November 9, 2011 Comments
Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
Outstanding catches of striped bass and occasional hookups with spotted sea trout are possible over many areas of the Chesapeake Bay. Published November 2, 2011 Comments
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Gene Mueller's Fishing Report
By Gene Mueller - The Washington Times
As local anglers face a variety of autumnal options, they can begin by choosing to fish in the mountains or the tidal Potomac and Rappahannock rivers in the Maryland and Virginia flatlands this week. Published October 26, 2011 Comments
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