Hey Patrick - for some reason I can’t reply-all to the group message so
feel free to post this for everyone. I fished Mattawoman out of a john
boat launched at Smallwood yesterday morning. I wasn’t paying attention
to the area directly around the launch but I think it’s pretty shallow
all around. To the immediate west of the launch there is a very shallow
bay that extends up to a point at the mouth of the creek. That whole
area is very shallow and filled with grass (the whole creek has a ton of
submerged grass). If you can get from the launch into that bay I would
think you can wade - I assume the bottom is pretty fork with all that
grass.
We saw 2 snakeheads in
that bay and one took a pass at my frog rattler popper. Otherwise I
caught 2 nice largemouth on game changers in a couple of hours of
fishing further up the creek and my buddy fishing conventional caught 1
on a chatterbait. We saw a couple of other snakeheads but couldn’t hook
up.
Fwiw I think all
the fish in that creek are getting bombarded with whopper poppers and
chatterbaits from the guys in bass boats and a fly presentation is
something they’re not seeing a lot of. Pretty cool place. Curious to
know if you figure out how to wade it. Good luck!
Andy