Early Fall ???
These are perfect summer days, time's a wasting.
Junior Abel, Gavin Niel, and Nichols Meade got into a red drum frenzy last Wednesday. They hooked 14 and landed 10, all safely released. The reds were close to Target Ship.
Filling up all the fish boxes!
Cool weather surprised us all by breaking the heat wave last Thursday night.
The cooler weather continues this week making for excellent fishing conditions.
Spot are still hot in the Patuxent.
Captain Bernie Shea loading up on spot, croaker, and white perch daily on his charter boat.
Best overall news is the spot run in the Patuxent. The spot are eager to be caught and ready to bite at Green Holly, Sandy Point, the mouth of Town Creek, Point Patience, Kingston Hollow, Hawk's nest, and just about every oyster bar up the river to Benedict. It really doesn't get any better than this.
Latoga Mason shows her 33 pound, 38-inch blue catfish, entered into the Tackle Box big cat contest August 4th.
The bluefish continue to get bigger and feed daily in the mid channel of the bay from the Choptank. Best areas are around the Target Ship where trolled surgical eels are producing for trollers. Lure casters are using spoons, top water plugs, Gotchas, etc. thrown into the middle of the breakers. Big jigs fished near the bottom close to the breaking schools find bigger (some gigantic) bluefish.
25 white perch caught single handed by Chris at Solomons bridge pilings using the Chesapeake Sabiki rig and a bit of bait in about two hours on the change of tide.
11 inch croaker, Monday morning on the Shea-D-Lady.
Bull Redfish are scattered about, cruising in big schools. The fish are looking to eat baitfish and will come up and break tossing bait and froth into the air. There is no predicting when one may come across them. They seem to like the Mud Leads and the lumps below the Target ship. They will take most any lure when in a feeding frenzy. Big lures work best.
Chris with typical striper caught jigging at the Solomons bridge pilings. They are thick there now as are white perch.
Jasstin's August 1st rockfish from shoreline of the Patuxent.
Cobia are still south of us. Windmill Point is very good, but it is a hefty run from Point Lookout.
The striper season is now open in the Mayland waters and is off to a good start. The cooler weather and good tide movement are perfect for stripers, and good catches have been made around structure in the Patuxent.
Eric Packard with the biggest of 6 largemouth from St. Mary's Lake last Monday morning.
Don Haggard and his nearly 6 pound bass from local pond.
Speckled trout and red fish are in the lower Potomac and in the bay near the mouth of St. Jerome's creek.
Trout are more numerous than the reds at the moment.
These are perfect summer days. School starts soon. Time's a wasting.