trolling bite starting
 

Saturday - After a slow LTJ bite (some dinks, a couple low 20"ers, and one ~30") we moved to trolling and hooked up with not a lot of time with lines in the water.

Water temps were 39-41 degrees BTW.

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Sunday - Willy P. got a nice on trolling on his new 36 Judge

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Nice fish!

Love the twin Suzuki 350's.

I'm assuming they're twins and there's not a third one that can't be seen in the picture? :confused::eek:

That is Bill Judge's 36 Chesapeake with twin 350 Zukes. Doesnt need triples. It does around 52mph with twins.

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Water is cold but fish can be had..Good day today with some nice fish over 40"s

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52 in a 36' boat!!!!! :eek::eek:

The trolling bite hasn't started for us yet:mad:

We were out yesterday morning scraping ice off the boat (Capt John's Boat) at 7am. We dropped 6 boat rods off the back because the "marks" we saw were 50 ft down:eek:
No bait on the screen, but we did see about 20 gannets flying today:)

Close to 10am; with the sun higher in the sky, we put out one board and had 4 lines off board and two deep lines.

No jellies yet:D

Trolled until about noon without even a knockdown.

Capt John did cook us lunch onboard, so that was great:):)

Unfortunately, his mate from last year had to take a "real" job, so if you or anyone you know is looking for a position, let Capt John know.

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HMMM...... currently unemployed?

Splashed my boat on Saturday afternoon. Went for a ride to make sure everything was working and check to see if we could see any activity.

Didn't mark anything north of the bridge on the eastern side.

We marked a lot of fish near Matapeake in 80' of water. They were all holding at about 60'. Water temp was a balmy 43°. A few warm days should help bring the bite on.

Well; it finally happened for us. We took Bruce's boat (Hook Em) out for a shakedown cruise and picked up a nice fat 43 inch pig:D

Headed to a meeting tonight, so no time for the pic. I have to get it off my phone and onto the "Puter"
I'll post the photo later:)
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Oh Heck; I can be a bit late for a meeting:D
First fish of the season for me.
Thanks Bruce:)

p.s.
We also saw the Coast Guard training vessel "Eagle".
And, I always love seeing the wake of a fishing boat headed home:D
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And it appears to be above the bridges?

yes:D
47-50 ft of water
Hit a tandem 100ft off the boards
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Nice fish Bruce and Marty

The fish we have had trolling so far this season have been coming long off the board. Short lines have gone virtually untouched. That should change as the water warms up next week and menhaden start to show in numbers

Fished Saturday afternoon for the first time time in two weeks out of Annapolis

Water was 45 degrees. Blow out tide (almost had trouble loading my boat on the trailer water was so low). Almost no bait and very few marks. Tolled with lines in the water for about 3 hours or so. One fish while setting lines.. a nice 44"er in 48' of water or so.

I am hoping to see more bait and fish with some sun and water warming up.

Today on this date the last few years we have been at least 50 degrees at TPL. Yesterday was 45 degrees. 2010, which was a fantastic preseason the water was almost 55 degrees by now.

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Last year:eek: April 2, 2017 had Mike (Garlien) and his son onboard. We hooked up 5 fish:D

This year, I've only caught one fish (on Bruce's boat). Mine goes in the water this week:)
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Did they want green or white Capt.

I know this was probably directed at Bfaithful, but I thought I might respond.

My Green vs White has really gone through a transition. When I started trolling, I ran one side of my boat white, the other green. Then, for years, I mixed my colors. I run 14 board lines total, and I would alternate green on rod one, white on rod two, green on rod three, and so on.

This year, I will still have green or white tandems in my spread, but ALL my umbrellas will have white teasers (the lure may be green).

If you look at many of the Charter boats sitting at the dock, many of them pull ALL umbrellas. My boards aren't big enough to accomplish this, therefore, I stagger my board lines (tandem, umbrella, tandem,umbrella). Many Charters pull ALL white umbrella teasers, but mix white/green lures behind them.

I'm slowly doing the same thing. As I run out of green teasers, I only buy white teaser as replacements.

I realize that some days white or green is the hot lure, so I will stay with mixed lures (you can even mix head hair and shad bodies). White hair with green shad works just fine.

Just simply don't get caught with all one color.
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This week my white has been doing best. However green was better a couple of weeks ago... who knows. Long off the boards have been best though with cold water

45 degrees still today and very little bait. Had some jellies

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It was sunnier and warmer yesterday. Surface temps were up to 48 degrees. However still very little bait. I did gannets looking around though. I also saw an osprey with a shad (not a menhaden). We only hit one fish and missed another. Fish was the first male of the season and was caught on the shallow, short line (40-50' back)