Potomac River Smallmouth Club

03/15/2026

Jack….. Hanmer time!

03/03/2026

03/02/2026

On this episode of Fishing the DMV, we dive deep into Upper Potomac River Smallmouth Fishing and the future of conservation with the team behind Fishtagged, a citizen-science initiative operating under state permit on the Potomac River.
I’m joined by Scott Broom and Clark Hile to discuss how anglers are helping monitor Potomac River Smallmouth Bass populations, track seasonal movement patterns, and contribute real-world data during the critical March and April pre-spawn smallmouth fishing season.

Ft. (thank you to Larry Tressler for letting me use one of his photos for the thumbnail!!)

Link Below:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q2i0M5qT4Ig

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fishing-the-dmv/id1597670209?i=1000752602754

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NM6MpCyjbUkd2YFQEtKz2?si=3V_74Ds3RlKjG6FTX13VTQ

01/05/2026

REINITIATING DAILY DROUGHT MONITORING. Here's today's (1/5/2026) report:

⚠️CO-OP is reinitiating daily drought monitoring and reporting today because Potomac River flow at the USGS gage at Point of Rocks, Maryland, has fallen below the daily monitoring threshold of 2,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

🌤According to information from the National Weather Service Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center, negligible precipitation fell in the Potomac watershed above Little Falls during the past 24 hours.

☀No rainfall is expected in most of the watershed over the next 3 days, but a small region in the northwestern corner is expected to receive light rainfall - 0.01 to 0.10 inches.

💧Flow at Point of Rocks today is estimated at 1720 cfs.

01/05/2026

Winter River Smallmouth Webinar #1 Jan 4, 2026

11/26/2025

A proposed data center development in upper Montgomery County would use the Potomac River--which supplies over 75 percent of the region’s drinking water-- for cooling. Locals, environmental groups, and state officials consider the opportunities and risks it poses for the water and the nearby community.

It's a chilly fall morning along the C&O Canal Towpath in Upper Montgomery County as people stroll and bike through a corridor of red, yellow and green foliage. In the distance, tall cylindrical smokestacks rise from what used to be the Dickerson coal-fired power plant.

Barbara Velarde and her husband Mike Olszak walk this path at least three times a week.
“You can watch the beavers building their little dams,” Velarde says. “There is a lot of wildlife, nature, and history. This is something we should hang on to and just not spoil the rivers.”

The former coal plant is the proposed site for a data center development, those windowless buildings that store the cloud and power artificial intelligence.

The couple are worried about what it will mean for their quiet corner of the county.https://wamu.org/story/25/11/18/proposed-montgomery-county-data-center-would-use-potomac-river-water-for-cooling/

11/09/2025

11/04/2025

The report for Nov. 2, 2025:

☀️ No rain fell in the basin over the past 24 hours. (US National Weather Service Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center)

🔮 No rainfall is expected over the next 3 days.

🌊 River flow at Point of Rocks continues to stay above 2000 cfs, the CO-OP Daily Drought Monitoring threshold, but is expected to fall below said threshold within the next few days.