Also forgot to mention, Ft. Loudoun dam is not that far of a drive really from MH, you could start out at one and head to the other pretty easily if you weren't having any luck. Sometimes they don't generate very much at MH, or they may not start until like 2pm and only go until 6pm, so you could go to Ft. Loudoun early and move to MH after lunch or whatever. It's maybe 30 minutes or so away from one to the other. Maybe a little longer with a boat, it's been a long time since I made that drive, but it's definitely not hours or anything like that.

The Ft. Loudoun tailwater is a pretty productive striper fishery, there is a guide who comes down alomst every day from North Carolina and takes people fishing there. He was actually on an episode of Hank Parker outdoors there a year or two ago, I just happened to be there that day and got to meet him and watch them filming. It was kind of funny, the guide would drive the boat up the the boils, drop the bait down, hook the fish, hand the rod to Hank Parker, and they would film him reeling it in. Then he would talk for a minute, the guide would unhook the fish, and start the process over again. All Hank had to do was talk for the camera and reel in a fish every so often.