With reports being less than desired in our portion of the bay (Deale-Rock Hall), I decided to try further south
One good thing about being able to trailer my boat, is that I'm not limited to where we can run to fish. Even the reports coming out of Buzz's and PLO were not stellar.
I even considered running to OC Md because I heard the big slug of migratory fish were still on there way south from N.J.
I decided to run to PLO and fish for our resident fish, with the hope that a big one might be lurking nearby
Splashed the boat just before 7am and headed for the mouth of the Potomac. Started marking bait in 40 ft and dropped lines. Bait was looking good, although deep. Not as many fish marks around them, but stayed in the area. About 8:30am I found a big school of fish on the screen. Watch your rods, I yelled. One, two, three, four, five rods go down. All deep umbrellas with 6 inch baits. Some had two fish on each umbrella
. Everything over 24 inches went in the box. We threw back several 22-23 inch fish
By the time I got all the tackle and fish untangled from the net
, I made a turn to run through the school again. Couldn't find them. I made bigger and bigger circles around my waypoint, to no avail. CRAP.
Off we went searching again. All fish came off 6in baits. Had a slow pick at fish until 1pm. We put 12 in the boat and had two knockdowns. Kept our limit of 8 and headed to the barn. The boat was back on the trailer and headed home by 2:30pm.
I have several pics but only one available currently. All fish kept were from 23-27 inches. I had a good time pestering Mike (garlien) with text messages all day (he was supposed to go with us, but had to work)
Long day, but meat in the cooler. I wish PLO was closer.
5th (Marty)