The June Bass Pro Tour (BPT) Potomac River event was a competition of reading the tides better than then everyone else, and fishing shallow water baits around cover. Vibrating jigs, Texas-rigged soft ...

Despite the strong autumn winds we’ve been experiencing lately, anglers can find a lee shore or perhaps a tucked away quiet ...

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 longtime ...

On April 9, Connor Lynch, an angler fishing on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Cove, hooked and released a shortnose sturgeon, a fish not seen in the river since 2007. The Potomac Riverkeeper called ...

This is one way to kill a snakehead fish. Good morning and welcome to Snakehead Fishing Boot Camp! I'm your first mate, Hurricalfe, a man with virtually no nautical experience and an irrational fear ...

(Updated at 11:05 a.m.) A combination of hot days and pandemic closures has sent people flocking to the banks of the Potomac River near Chain Bridge. On both the Virginia and D.C./Maryland sides of ...

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WASHINGTON — The Potomac River just got its report card, and the news is quite good. Ten years ago, the Potomac Conservancy rated the river’s health with a “D” grade. This year, it received a B — the ...

A Maryland man drowned in the Potomac River on July 4 after he tried to cross through the water while fishing near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, authorities say. Daniel Aldazabal Cucho, of Germantown, ...

An eight-foot bull shark was caught this week in the Potomac River in St. Mary’s County, Md. Although it isn’t totally uncommon to occasionally see a bull shark in the river, state wildlife ...