Dam! appreciate that info. Still seems like good bass water.
On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 11:58:11 AM UTC-4, westbrid...@gmail.com wrote:
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No muskies in the cacapon, at least none above the dam....The ones that come up are from the Potomac at the mouth and most reports ive read have all been at or close to the confluence.
On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 10:52:24 AM UTC-4, Andrew Sarcinello wrote:Thanks for the link!Tiger muskies ARE sterile so I am not sure I believe those accounts but I can easily see some of those larger pools being big enough to hold muskies, especially above the old power plant dam. I'd feel better about my chances if I knew that muskies (pures, not tigers) had been stocked directly into middle portions of the Cacapon. Otherwise I'm not sure how they'd get in the river above the power plant dam.
On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 8:57:33 AM UTC-4, Tom Moran wrote:Tiger muskies were stocked in the Potomac, and I've seen accounts that they were able to reproduce (they are supposed to be sterile) so that there is a viable population. All the accounts of muskie I've seen has them at the mouths of rivers and creeks, which for the Cacapon is a very short section where Rt 9 crosses the first time headed west out of Berkeley Springs. There is a public access point at the bridge. Jay Stauffer's "The Fishes of West Virginia" (see Google books, you may be able to get this loaded free) has none of the Esox family in the Cacapon except for Northern Pike, and that finding way upstream, perhaps in the Lost River section. My guess is there is a dam/lake up there somewhere, as they are not really stream fish. No pickerel. Stauffer mentions the state record Muskie coming from nearby Sleepy Creek, almost assuredly at the mouth. There are videos on Youtube of muskie being caught on the area.I haven't canoed the stretch beginning at Largent yet. The slow stretch I was referring to above was from the Crossings to Largent. I have done the entire river from Capon Bridge (Rt 50) downstream except for that portion.Below is a link to a nice map showing public access points. If you are going to go through the Old Cacapon power plant dam, the guidance is to portage to the left, but at lower levels it is MUCH easier to go straight over the dam at the fish ladder. You pull up adjacent to the dam, climb out and carry your boat down the ladder. But this area below the dam is prime fishing, especially in spring as fish tend to move upstream over the winter and concentrate at the base of the dam.There is another low dam downstream from there that will dump you over if you don't observe the barely perceptible notch and hit it. The base of this low dam also holds fish well, especially now when levels are up a bit.On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:51 AM, Andrew Sarcinello <andy...@gmail.com> wrote:Great info, Tom! Thanks.
Do you know if there are any large toothy fish in there? There's a book out there (primarily meant for paddlers) that claims there are both pike and musky in the Cacapon. I could see muskies but highly doubt there are pike. Hence my interest in the slow water below Largent.
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