Native Fish Trip - Pick the one you'd like to go on

[marge618]

Thanks, Kris. This is enough. Just about everyone who responded wants to go on the Potomac River trip, so the Potomac River trip it will be. Sorry for not posting here sooner, but I got sidetracked onto other things.

One of the GWAPA members who read the post pm'ed me with a couple of other sites to add to the list. I'll check the tide tables and post here with a meeting place and time for our August 9th Potomac River Great Snakehead Hunt III!

I went to the site and found out about VA resident licensing and reciprosity with MD.

I think the location you have set for the collecting trip is
Lower Potomac River (between its mouth and the Rt. 301 Bridge)
As I live in MD I am getting a MD fishing license.

Later
Marge

[Sonny Disposition]

I can't say for sure. We'll be parking from the Virginia side, and seining in Virginia bays and creeks. I was under the impression that the reciprocity was more for boaters who drifted into Virginia waters from Maryland.

To be safe, I usually just by a short term Virginia lisence.

[Sonny Disposition]

OK. Our the Great Potomac River Snakehead Hunt III is officially scheduled for Saturday, August 9 at noon. We'll meet in the parking lot of Riverside park, which is just north of the George Washington Home in Mount Vernon.

If you have seines, bring 'em.

I recommend you get a Virginia fishing lisence. (They offer long term and temporary.) You can even get one on line:

http://www.dgif.state.va.us/licenses/

Plan to get wet. Old sneakers and old shorts are fine. Waders will work, too.

Disclaimer: (Sorry folks, but it’s necessary). If you attend the collecting trip, you are responsible for your own safety and the safety of those in your party. If you exercise common sense and good judgement, drowning or injury is unlikely but cannot be ruled out entirely. However, neither myself nor the members or leadership of the Greater Washington Aquatic Plants Association will assume any liability for your safety. (Again, sorry to have to say that.)

Anyone under the legal age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Here are some links to pages describing precautions to take while wading:
http://www.agfc.com/pdfs/free/wadingsafetips_bro.pdf

http://www.flyfishingoutfitters.com/p/p.aspx?mlid=1084

http://www.articlealley.com/article_161851_32.html

Along with the Northern Snakehead, Channa argus argus, the Potomac River and its tidal creeks and bays are home to bluegill, pumpkinseed, redbreast, and redear sunfish, and the eastern banded killifish, fundulus diaphanus, http://www.jonahsaquarium.com/JonahSite ... anus01.htm.

If you plan to bring any fish home under the terms of your lisence, remember to bring a bucket or a cooler.

We’ll start at the parking lot on Little Hunting Creek, on the George Washington Parkway, and seine in the Potomac River and in Little Hunting Creek. Although they aren’t numerous, I’ve collected bluespotted sunfish in Little Hunting Creek (http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/bluespotsun.html). We’d work our way south along the GW Parkway, to Route 1, to Pohick Bay Regional Park.

If we get a snakehead, we'll have to euthanize it on the spot, as this species is illegal to transport alive.

Hope to see you there!

[marge618]

Bob,
I sent you a PM regarding this Sat Aug 9 fish collecting trip.

Later,
Marge

[krisw]

Bob, do you have any driving directions, or an address for Riverside Park for those of us not that familiar with the area?

And if possible, do you have a cell number you're willing to share in case we get lost?

Thanks!