We launched out of Snow Hill, MD onto the Pocomoke River. The tide was low and it was amazing to see how low the water line was. I’d say at least four feet. We fished several banks and one produced a large mouth bass that John caught with a spinner bait. Along the way we encountered several blue herons and two beaver.
Next we decided to fish the Nassawango Creek, which is the largest tributary of the Pocomoke River. The name means “ground between the streams”. Early English records have it as Askimenokonson Creek (an Algonquian word meaning “stony place where they pick early strawberries”) after a Native settlement near its headwaters.
The Nassawango rises in Wicomico County, MD and flows 20.8 miles through Worcester County, MD to join the Pocomoke River below Snow Hill, MD. Nassawango Creek and its tributaries were once damned in several places for mills; one dam site became an early industrial blast furnace operation where bog iron ore was smelted to make pig iron at Furnacetown during the first half of the 19th century. Today the furnace grounds are considered a local historical landmark.
The Nassawango Creek was quiet and private with very little traffic. There was no wind and the sun’s rays were warm. We fished two hours into the tide change and John caught a large mouth bass with a chatter bait.
Putting the boat in and out of water is starting to become second nature. I can’t believe how fast and efficient we have become.