I went out last weekend and tried my luck. I put in at Mattawoman and fished Mattawoman, the mouth of Naebsco, Occoquon, and 2 main river points. The water everywhere had sediment and mud, visibility was 1 foot or less. Main river water temps were 35.5 Saturday AM gradually creeping up to 37.8 by Sunday afternoon. In areas where there was some flats with dark bottom (like burn point in Mattawoman) protected from the wind, the water draining off the flats on an ebb tide was often between 40 and 42 degrees. And the railroad trestle and marina at Naebsco (which has a warm water discharge from water treatment) was 44 to 45 degrees. The river itself was free of ice and did NOT have a lot of debris, logs and trash in it. Happy about that. I fished a jig s l o w l y and I threw a crankbait quite a bit. C-Rig a little too. I also threw a red-eye lipless and fished it yo-yo style the way Iconelli likes to. I got one fish off the RR trestle, mouth of Naebsco, in the protected eddy to the left of the entrance. And one bite I missed in Occoquon. That was it. I saw a guy with a shakey head at the covered dock marina between I95 and 123 brides in Occoquon catch a few small ones.

VERY s l o w fishing - but it was fishing. Got some of the winter willies out of me. It was good to be fishing!