September Special

The perch are biting now in the Potomac above Swan Point.

The Patuxent is loaded with spot. The big spot are most plentiful and huge from Helen's creek to Cedar Point. One charter captain said that the spot couldn't get any bigger without exploding. 

Catfish are mixed with stripers in the Potomac. This is great eating size.

Bluefish are dependable in the bay. Most consistent catches are below the target ship. The fish are respectable size during the day. At about 6 PM the big boys begin to show. There have been small schools of bull reds spotted in this same area this week. Blues are also straight out the mouth of the Patuxent in the late afternoons. 

The trout are back for lure casters in the shallows of Cornfield Harbor and Point Lookout.

Rockfish are consistent in the Potomac from the 301 bridge to the District. Now they are creeping down to Swann Point and the mouth of St. Clement's Bay. Rockfish are at Ragged Point and on the marker for the rockpile just north. There were trout, rockfish, and lizard fish from Cornfield point to Point Lookout Saturday. 

Rockfish at Point Lookout, Saturday morning.

Rockfish are now in the mouth of the Patuxent from the Solomons bridge to Cedar Point. Several glowing reports of lure casters landing stripers on surface plugs and swimming plugs and jigs came in this week.  Schools of slot reds were observed there too.

Big perch have tuned on in Nomini Bay on Virginia side of the Potomac.

Perch have taken up at their old haunts in Nomini Bay. Great catches with Beetle Spins were reported there this week. A fisherman reported a catch of 30 perch culled at 10 inches twice this past week; he had the pictures to prove it.  

From now until Halloween will the great fishing to catch a variety of species.