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Capt. Cris Mills on the CoolBeanz out of Breezy followed the big fish are moving south, moving the CoolBeanz from Breezy down to Solomons.

We ran out to the middle of the channel and put out the boards and a nice 21 rod spread with big baits covering the column high to low.

It was pretty slow for a while, but eventually a deep boat rod went down hard. A Chesapeake newbie was first up, and pulled in a beauty; when we got back Bunky's measured it at 47.5" for his Maryland citation. We got it in in 90'; she took a single John Deer mojo with a 12" chartreuse shad; total of 40 oz weight out about 60'.

After trying hard to get another big'un or two we heard there were a lot of working birds and catching going on in 40' of water N & S of Point Lookout.

We pulled 6 more in over the next couple of hours running 5 tandems and calcutta-brellas. Most were 25" - 30", with the dink coming in at 22". The calcutta-brella got a double header; nice way to catch 53" of rockfish.