Despite what some history books might suggest, Captain John Smith did not discover the Potomac. “If you look at the John Smith map of 1608 ... how to make fishing hooks out of catfish bone. Mostly, ...

On April 9, Connor Lynch, an angler fishing on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Cove, hooked and released a shortnose sturgeon, a fish not seen in the river since 2007. The Potomac Riverkeeper ...

Sports fishing licenses quadrupled during the pandemic. Polluted urban runoff is the only growing source of pollution to the Potomac River and it threatens decades of restoration progress.

Potomac River fishing guide Steve Chaconas, who often practices catch-and-release fishing, was surprised by the river’s ranking as the most endangered. “I don’t see it as being that bad ...