Perfect Fishing; Perfect Weather
We have the perfect mix of weather and fish.
Fantastic catches by the experts!
Trout anyone?
We have the perfect mix of weather and fish.
We have spot, croaker, speckled trout, stripers, cobia, mackerel, bluefish, flounder, lizard fish, white perch, and even some whiting, and undersized weakfish (gray trout). No reports of tarpon or snook, but even that would not surprise me; did I mention toadfish?
Big croaker are in the Patuxent. Captain Bernie Shea is the man to call for a great trip.
Eric is landing big hardhead like this 14 inch fish on jerk baits mixed with trout and stripers. These croakers are ferocious fighters.
The spot are everywhere in the Patuxent in about 15 to 20 feet of water. They range all the way to Wayson's Corner, but the big ones are concentrated in the mouth of the river.
Croaker up to 14 inches have been reported in the Patuxent and Potomac. Most are smaller, but growing daily.
One of many cobia landed this weekend by Miss Susie Charters on the Middle Grounds near the Target ship.
Miss Susie Charters has the cobia dialed in!
Cobia suddenly showed up in all the familiar locations in the lower bay on the middle grounds and the Target ship. Miss Susie Charters found them biting and had a great trip last Sunday. The method is chumming, chunking, and live eels or cut bait.
Blues are everywhere now.
Miss Susie Charters is scoring blues and Spanish mackerel daily.
Spanish mackerel are now mixed with blues for trollers using surgical eels and spoons. Both planers and in-line sinkers work. Troll fast in the shipping channel. Casting lures into breaking fish is plenty of fun.
The bull reds were absent this week, at least not reported as the persistent east winds kept many off the main stem of the bay before they diminished for the weekend. They will be back in the lower traffic times during the week. You can troll with big spoons or surgical eels if you cannot find them breaking to sight cast. They are always somewhere eating.
Rock are big and plentiful.
Chris is catching stripers casting Yo-Zuri swimming plugs and top waters in the Patuxent.
There are lots of under-sized and keeper flounder now in many locations. There should be big ones on the drop off at buoy 76, Cedar Point Rip, Cove Point, and Point Lookout Bar. The lizard fish accompany the flounder. If they suddenly hit your bait, the flounder are on the bottom underneath them.
Kalel leads the August perch contest with this 12.5 inch beauty.
Ray R. scored a 12 inch white perch.
White perch are now responding to cleansing tides and cooler water. The water temperature in the mouth of the bay is 78.8° according to the Sea Temperature website , and that is the lowest recorded on this date in the last ten years. Breton Bay is an excellent location for white perch. They will take most any bait: bloodworms, shrimp, squid, razor clams, clam snouts, and even night crawlers. Catches in all creeks improved this week. Both rockfish, and perch were very willing under the Pearson creek bridge on the Naval Air Station this week.
This is a glowing report, but I never embellish, I just report what I hear and have the pictures to prove.