How did Ott DeFoe earn his fifth BPT trophy, and what were the Top 5 bass lures that produced on the final day?

The results of a fishing tournament earlier this month show promising signs for the smallmouth bass population in the Potomac River. State fisheries biologist Josh Henesy and Wade Elwood, a ...

The largest professional bass fishing tournament to come to Maryland ended yesterday after four days of competition on the Potomac River. Nearly 400 anglers from across the United States -- in ...

St. Mary’s County fishing enthusiasts are navigating seasonal closures for striped bass, also known as rockfish, while enjoying robust opportunities for spot, croaker, bluefish, and other species.

But just wait, says Ken Penrod, a guide on the river for 25 years and the author of “Fishing the Upper Potomac River” and other books on the river. ... But the Potomac bass population is poor.

Across the river, Joe Bruce held up a smallmouth Chuck Edghill was up to his chest in a deep hole, his spinning rod barely out of the water, bent with repeated catches of smallmouth bass and ...

Since moving to Maryland 25 years ago, I have been interested in paddling and fishing the Paw Paw Bends section of the Potomac River between Paw Paw, West Virginia, and ...

Twelve outdoor writers and some of the Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commission participated in a float trip down the Potomac River recently. All were struck with the terrific smallmouth bass fishing.

Donovan caught the striped bass, which he estimates weighed between 30 and 40 pounds, on March 20 while with two fishing buddies on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Boathouse. He said he felt a ...

OutdoorsJames DrakeThe Potomac River has been called our nation’s river. From its source at Fairfax Stone, where it just bubbles up out of the ground to form a tiny brook, down to the mouth ...