Early Spot Run

Spot are now in the Patuxent River as well as the Potomac. The fish are small but plentiful. There are a good number of hardhead (croaker) mixed with the spot and vice versa. The night fishermen at St. Mary's City off the Potomac caught about 20 croaker Saturday night including two keepers in excess of nine inches, and only two spot.

Concentrations of spot in the Patuxent had them coming in two at the time, also mixed with croaker. Bloodworm bits are the key bait.

Spot were found in the Patuxent at the mouth of St. Leonard Creek last Saturday. Little ones like this were hitting two at the time.

A handful of redfish have been caught in the St. Mary's River by live liners at night. Red fish love those little live spot as bait.

Stripers seem to be plentiful everywhere. They are protected until May 16th when the season opens, but they are jumping on baits and lures aimed at other species.

Alex with striper caught in Delaware's Indian River Inlet. The stripers are in shallow water all up and down the east coast and in the bay in great numbers.

There have been reports of good catches of white perch in St. Jerome's Creek and other locations.

Catfish at Bushwood Wharf are playing hide and seek. An experienced fisherman got skunked there last Saturday, Conditions were poor with choppy, muddy water.

Sunday's rain and good tide flow the last few days should make everything right by mid-week.

Alex Walker shows rockfish that took his bait while bottom fishing from shore in St. Mary's River. Fish was promptly released.