L.O.U. MAGAZINE
WINTER 2012
>How to Beat Cabin Fever

MARCH 2011
>Ken Penrod's 10 Seasons for Tidal Bass
>Big Fish on Deep Creek Lake
>Creature Baits for River Smallmouths
>Cold Water Susky Smallmouths

APRIL 2011
>Circle Hooks For River Smallmouth Bass
>Cold Water "Kitty Cattin" on the Tidal Potomac
>Spinnerbaits for Post Spawn-River    Smallmouth Bass

MAY 2011
>Structure Scan
>Snakehead Opportunities
>Fuel Tips for your Outboard
>Boys to Men-One Week, an Outdoors Lifestyle
>Pocomoke Bass Fishing 101

JUNE 2011
>Fishing From Algonkian Park on the Upper Potomac River in Late Spring Early Summer
>Soft Stick Bait Stratagies for
Post Spawn Tidal Bass

JULY 2011
>Booking a Fishing Guide for your Deep Creek Lake Vacation
>Catch River Smallmouth in Low, Hot Water
>Beat the Heat for Summer Blue Catfish

AUGUST 2011
>Cheap Chicken or Healthy Bass
>Fishing Northern Virginia 101: Getting Started
>How to Beat the Heat and Catch Some Nice Bass

SEPTEMBER
>Cast & Blast
>September is Topwater Time on Deep Creek Lake
>Selecting the Proper Fishing Rod

Ken Penrod and friends Fish Mexico's El Salto

The Upper Potomac River: Lander
The Potomac River is 358 miles long, beginning at a place called Fairfax Stone, just 500 yards inside West Virginia territory, and ending at/in the Chesapeake Bay. The river is owned by Maryland except for about 11.5 miles deeded to Washington, D.C. Only 108 miles of this famous drainage is tidal water while the balance is free flowing water—and a seemingly forgotten smallmouth bass fishery.

I wrote the book “Fishing The Upper Potomac River” in 1989 and it continues to sell well. While some of our fishing tactics have changed over the years, the geographic descriptions have not. The quality of the fishery dips and spikes over the years, because of spawn success/failure, climactic occurrences and contributing human abuse. Life under the surface of this river runs the gamut of extremes such as the severe drought in 2007 and 100-year floods in 1986.

I’ve been fishing this river since 1961 so I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly. There were years when we went several days without catching a bass and there were days when we caught more than one hundred. I dubbed 2000 as the finest smallmouth bass year of my 46-year history and now I’m claiming 2007 as my #2.

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