Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} 70lb Cat @ Fletcher's

You'd think that right Jim?  I've probably posted it before, but when I was working for DDOE (water quality) several years ago there were several local guys who fished off of the AREC pier (Anacostia Rec Center) and would catch, keep, and eat basically as many blue catfish as they could catch.  And that's the Anacostia river, literally right on top of the CSX railroad, which spilled coal not too long ago -- it would literally be a mud line filled with trash and debris, and people still chose to eat the fish.  

They were the nicest guys to talk to but they had just always eaten the fish they caught and didn't understand why they should do any differently.  

The Potomac up by fletcher's boathouse would look pretty as a picture in comparison!  

I like eating sunfish out of the SF shenandoah like 1 time per year (delicious, sustainable, and not too risky compared to other species), and I ate some snakehead caught on the Potomac back in 2013, but it's exceedingly rare that I keep anything. 

Gene

On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 4:42:43 PM UTC-4, Jeff Cook wrote:

Or a little restaurant somewhere nearby. That's what I'd like to see some reporting on. It's been brought up here before. 

On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Jim White <jrwh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sunday there was a group of folks in the next boat just upstream of me. We were anchored in a 60' hole (per my small portable depth sounder). They were fishing for catfish. I watched them pull in several before they continued a little further upstream. A few hours later they cruised by heading downstream. Lashed to the side of the boat was a net, half in / half out of the water, that was full of catfish. My guess is that was about a week's worth of dinner for a family of four. Not sure what type of catfish they were but I note that the Virginia Department of Health recommends NOT eating any Channel Catfish over 18". For Channel Cats smaller than 18" and all Bullhead they recommend no more than two meals per month. PCBs.

Seems to me that anyone who spends even a little time in the area of Fletcher's Cove, and who looks at what is in the water floating by their boat, would not even think of eating anything they catch there.

On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 1:15:12 PM UTC-4, Yambag Nelson wrote:

I was thinking the same thing.  Thing has to be loaded with heavy metals, pcbs and whatever else is in that river. 

On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 11:49:35 AM UTC-4, Rex Moore wrote:

"...who gave his big fish to a guy along the shore who intended to eat it."

Wouldn't a heavy cat like that be about the worst thing you could eat from the Potomac?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:06 PM Jeff Cook <mac...@icloud.com> wrote:

Woah, a friend just sent me this link, a couple days ago above Fletcher's on a kayak and a 7ft rod. Get those shad before the fish do, howboutcha.

http://www.anglersjournal.com/columns/the-one/tried-bring-boat-just-big/

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