7:30
Welcome from hosts Rob Catalanotto and Mark Binsted.7:35
Reports from Fletcher’s Boathouse and local fly shops.
7:45
Review of last year’s Potomac shad run with John Kuriawa and Mark Binsted.
8:00
Discussion of 2023 American shad abundance surveys by Matt Jargowsky of Maryland DNR, and an overview of shad fishery management by James Boyle of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
8:15
Featured speaker Jim Cummins, retired from the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, on the current status of American shad in the Potomac and challenges facing the restoration.
8:45
Panel of “grizzled veterans” responds to previously submitted questions on catching hickory and American shad at Fletcher’s; plus additional freewheeling conversations. (Deadline for questions is TONIGHT; submit here.)
9:30
Event ends—we will see you on the river very soon! |
