Went out today on Patent Pending for a search mission. We haven't been out for a while and had no recent intel for where fish were located.
Made sense to head back to where we left them during the trophy season. We were picking up more shorts in the shallow water off the West River in early May---so off we went.
Didn't see much bait or marks; and the rods remained vacant
. Spent a couple hours up there before pulling rods and heading south.
Headed for our "summer" waters off Tilghman on the Eastern Shore side. Ran the edge and picked up a throwback. The rod just looked "heavy" and I thought we picked up a trash bag or stick. The 16 inch fish was shaken off the hook and we continued our hunt.
Off the radar towers, we saw a huge bird show and the water was boiling. Naw; that's just bull chit. But we did find bait higher in the water column. Most marks had been deep as if they were feasting on mayworms. Now we had marks in the upper third of the water.
With only 3 people onboard, we quickly put 6 keepers in the box (23-25 inches). Most came off storm (calcutta) lures, but a few took Capt Johns spoons
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Western Shore side of the channel, 45-55 ft due east of the radar towers. You will find us there again tomorrow
Fish were fat and beautiful.
5th (Marty)