>>497615I <3 toothy fish. My pops managed to wrangle the first snakehead of the year for us. He had an okay day of fishing whilst I didn't hook into much of anything aside from a fairly chunky largemouth as dawn was breaking. The whole day was pretty slow but he managed to find a largemouth, yellow perch and bluegill to go along with his snakehead. Crappie, white perch, channel cat and other sunfish (redear, pumpkinseed and such) were nowhere to be seen.
I did make up for my slow start at a local pond by finally breaking in the worm rod (
>>498106 ) but I didn't snap a photo. If anybody sees the 6'9" Abu Vengeance + Black Max 2 combo on sale at a local shop I'd recommend snatching it up. It's not a bad getup for what you get. I threw some 14-lb Berkley Vanish fluorocarbon on it and it casts like a dream.
>>498509Absolutely! I've always liked rainy days and cold weather anyway. One of my earliest memories is of my pops taking me out fishing on a cold, wet, snowy day. I think we might've been fishing from shore just past the trees through a long-since-repaired hole in the fence off 210 by the Wilson Bridge. At "The Spoils" on the Potomac River. We were throwing silver buddy lures and jigging grubs and hooking into some really nice largemouth. Of course the Wilson Bridge has since been redone, the fence was repaired, and in a post-9/11 DC-MD-VA area you can't just park on the side of a major highway without expecting either law-enforcement up your ass or for some jackoff to come along and break into your vehicle while you're down on the water fishing. The Spoils is still a pretty popular fishing spot but the only way to get to it these days is probably by a boat launched from one of the nearby marinas.