National Harbor, Md. -- Anglers and boaters, parking may be congested at Marshall Hall Park (MD) and Gravelly Point Park (VA) on May 17-18 because of a Walmart FLW Bass tournament.
Anglers may be pre-fishing earlier this week and launching from Smallwood State Park. At Marshall Hall Park, some non-tournament parking will be reserved for non-tournament anglers.
The nationally televised weigh-in will occur at 2:30 p.m. May 17 and 18. For the last two days of the tournament, May 19 and 20, the weigh-in will occur at 4 p.m., just after the FLW Outdoors Expo held at the National Harbor Marina.
The FLW has been hosting tournaments on the Potomac River since at least June 2001. The Potomac River and upper Chesapeake Bay has gained national attention for their prominent black bass fisheries. The Potomac River was recently ranked as 31st out of 100 as the Best Bass Lake in the U.S. by Bassmaster Magazine (2012).
The FLW is only one of hundreds of black bass tournament organizations that stage tournaments on Maryland's parks and marinas each year. This year, MD DNR is drafting a regulation to permit tournament directors of 2013 to obtain better information on use of the fishery by largemouth and smallmouth bass tournaments.
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